The most active out-of-the-money options for the coming week
Recorded in cvforge on May 31, 2026 by ConvexValue · Published July 25, 2026
Top OTM calls and puts across the next seven days by session volume, ranked, with an expiration-against-distance bubble chart to show how far out the activity sits.
Exact prompt
show me a visualization of the most active out-of-the-money options for the upcoming week's expirations
Data cadence
Live U.S. option snapshots, refreshed through the session. Open interest is an end-of-previous-day figure and updates once daily.
Plan requirements
Runs on the free cvforge app and the free data tier (20 requests/hour). No card needed.
What the agent built
- Top OTM calls/puts for the next 7 calendar days by session volume
- Ranked horizontal volume chart
- Expiration vs OTM-distance bubble chart
- Summary stats and sortable-style contract table view
- Side filter, row count selector, and refresh button
Fields used
day_volume, open_interest, strike_price, expiration_date, contract_type, underlying_price
How to read it
The bubble chart is the panel that adds something a ranking cannot: it plots expiration against distance from spot, so you can see whether the activity is a few days out and slightly OTM, or weeks out and far away. Those are very different positions with similar volume.
Out-of-the-money contracts expiring within a week are the shortest-dated speculative instruments in the market. Their volume is real and their information content is low — many expire worthless by construction, which is priced in from the start.
Change it
The prompt is the interface. Ask for a different ticker, a different expiration window, or an extra column in the same sentence style and the agent edits the app in place — you do not start over, and you do not wait for anyone to build it.
Limitations
- Snapshot data, not a transaction tape: the build reads the chain as it stands, so it cannot attribute a trade to a buyer or a seller.
- Open interest updates once a day, so an intraday volume/OI comparison is always this session’s volume against yesterday’s open interest.
- Contract coverage is U.S. listed equities, ETFs and indices. Indices use the I: prefix, for example I:SPX.
- Current per-contract valuation is Massive fair market value (FMV), a proprietary estimate. cvforge does not provide option bids, asks, midpoint, quote sizes, NBBO or last trades, and FMV is not an executable quote.
- Concentration at a strike shows where contracts changed hands, which is not the same as where the underlying is expected to settle.
Related demos
- SOXS volume by strike and by expiration
- SPCX volume as a strike-by-expiration heatmap
- Call volume up, put volume down, across three expirations
Search focus: most active out of the money options. Related: otm option volume next 7 days, options volume by distance from spot. Originally posted on X.