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The Closing Tape · after the close

26 October 2026

MON 26 OCT 2026 · 15:40 IST

NIFTY closed 0.04 percent over its gamma flip, in a positive-gamma regime.

All 3 fell below their opening print in the morning, ground back through the afternoon, and shut inside ranges no wider than 1.59 percent.

NIFTY22,753.20Positive Gamma+1.220%
BANKNIFTY54,366.70Positive Gamma+0.276%
SENSEX73,606.75Negative Gamma+1.129%

Where each index closed

The bar is the sampled range. The dark notch is the first sample, the blue block is the close. The ladder below it shows where the close sat against the strikes that mattered.

NIFTY
22,753.20
+274.30 pts  +1.220% since the open
LOW 22,396.55HIGH 22,753.20
Where the close sits
Max gamma strike + call wall
246.80 pts above
23,000.00
CLOSE22,753.20
Gamma flip
9.88 pts below
22,743.32
Put wall
153.20 pts below
22,600.00

Opened 22,478.90, fell 82.35 points, then walked all the way back and closed at the highest price we sampled. It finished between the gamma flip at 22,743 and the max gamma strike + call wall at 23,000, 246.80 points under the nearer one above. Hedging dampens from here.

Regime
POSITIVE GAMMA
Net GEX
+1,217 Cr
ATM IV
19.97%
Expiry
1.00 days to 2026-10-27
BANKNIFTY
54,366.70
+149.75 pts  +0.276% since the open
LOW 53,800.90HIGH 54,371.05
Where the close sits
Max gamma strike + call wall
633.30 pts above
55,000.00
CLOSE54,366.70
Gamma flip
149.95 pts below
54,216.75
Put wall
366.70 pts below
54,000.00

Opened 54,216.95 and spent the day below it, low to 53,800.90, before closing 54,366.70. It finished between the gamma flip at 54,217 and the max gamma strike + call wall at 55,000, 633.30 points under the nearer one above. Hedging dampens from here.

Regime
POSITIVE GAMMA
Net GEX
+777 Cr
ATM IV
20.85%
Expiry
1.00 days to 2026-10-27
SENSEX
73,606.75
+822.02 pts  +1.129% since the open
LOW 72,546.84HIGH 73,606.75
Where the close sits
Max gamma strike
1,393.25 pts above
75,000.00
Call wall
393.25 pts above
74,000.00
Gamma flip
167.99 pts above
73,774.74
CLOSE73,606.75
Put wall
606.75 pts below
73,000.00

Opened 72,784.73, fell 237.89 points, then walked all the way back and closed at the highest price we sampled. It finished between the put wall at 73,000 and the gamma flip at 73,775, 167.99 points under the nearer one above. Hedging amplifies from here.

Regime
NEGATIVE GAMMA
Net GEX
−979 Cr
ATM IV
20.40%
Expiry
3.00 days to 2026-10-29

Delta · which side is heavy

Calls to the right in gold, puts to the left in violet, all three on one shared scale. Net is what survives when they cancel.

NIFTYnet +3,260 Cr
puts -89,905calls +93,165
BANKNIFTYnet −8,368 Cr
puts -22,114calls +13,746
SENSEXnet +623 Cr
puts -19,629calls +20,252
Cr of delta-notional, standing open interest at 15:40 IST.

Flows · the book against today

The first bar is every open contract that exists. The second is only what changed today. Opposite directions mean today pushed against the position rather than adding to it.

NIFTY
Standing book+3,260 Cr
Today's flow−32,018 Cr
BANKNIFTY
Standing book−8,368 Cr
Today's flow+5,149 Cr
SENSEX
Standing book+623 Cr
Today's flow−7,678 Cr
Blue is long delta, red is short. Flow is this session against the previous close.
The one number

Look at the SENSEX pair in Flows. The standing book is long 623 Cr of delta while today’s flow was short 7,678 Cr, 1233 percent of it, the other way.

How to read the ladders

  • Call wall heaviest call open interest above spot
  • Put wall heaviest put open interest below spot
  • Gamma levels max gamma strike, zero gamma, the flip
  • Close where it actually finished

What these numbers are

Open, high and low mean the first, highest and lowest of 635 samples taken between 09:15 and 15:39 IST, not the exchange’s official prints, and the close is the last price we sampled rather than the settlement price. GEX is normalised to five days and compares across days for one index, never between indices. Volume reads zero at every strike after the close, so no volume figure appears above.