Themes Lithium & Battery Metal Miners ETF (LIMI) Open Interest History

Open interest tracks the total number of outstanding options contracts. Rising OI alongside price moves can indicate growing commitment to the trend; declining OI suggests positions are being closed.

Themes Lithium & Battery Metal Miners ETF (LIMI) operates in the Financial Services sector, specifically the Asset Management industry, with a market capitalization near $2.2M, listed on CBOE, carrying a beta of 1.57 to the broader market. The security is being delisted. public since 2024-09-24.

Snapshot as of Oct 2, 2026.

Spot Price

$33.41

Call OI

15

Put OI

8

Total OI

23

As of Oct 2, 2026, Themes Lithium & Battery Metal Miners ETF (LIMI) has 23 total contracts outstanding across all expirations. Put/call OI ratio is 0.53 (call-heavy positioning). Open interest reflects accumulated positions from prior sessions; persistent growth indicates sustained directional or hedging interest, while sharp drops typically mean post-expiration clean-up.

How LIMI open interest history Data Feeds Strategy Selection

Strategy selection on Themes Lithium & Battery Metal Miners ETF options does not derive from any single metric in isolation. The open interest history view above sits inside a broader read: ATM IV currently sits at 36.3% and dealer gamma exposure is positive, so dealer hedging is mechanically mean-reverting. Combine the open interest history data here with the volatility-skew surface, dealer-gamma exposure, max-pain level, and upcoming-events calendar to build a positioning thesis. Risk-defined structures (credit spreads, debit spreads, iron condors) are usually safer than naked positions while the regime is uncertain; the data on this page anchors the inputs but does not by itself constitute a trade thesis.

How to read the LIMI open-interest data

The open-interest time-series below tracks the total Themes Lithium & Battery Metal Miners ETF options inventory outstanding day by day. OI is a stock measure - the cumulative position count - so trends flag accumulating or distributing positioning. Total call OI of 15 versus put OI of 8 gives a put/call OI ratio of 0.53 - structurally a slower-moving signal than the volume-based ratio.

LIMI flow vs positioning

Volume tells you what flows happened today; OI tells you what positions accumulated. Both can move in opposite directions: rising volume with falling OI means contracts are being closed (covering); rising volume with rising OI means new positions are being opened. The combination matters more than either alone for reading sentiment. Combined with the current positive dealer-gamma regime, large OI clusters tend to act as price magnets through expiration cycles.

Using LIMI OI/volume data alongside other surfaces

Per-strike OI is the input to dealer-gamma calculations: strikes with elevated call OI generate gamma walls that dealers must hedge into as spot approaches them. The gamma-exposure page combines this distribution with the dealers' assumed-long-gamma assumption to project hedge flow. Volume cross-checks recent positioning shifts in the chain that haven't yet shown up in cumulative OI. Pair both with the term-structure view on the volatility page to determine whether the activity is concentrated in near-dated event hedging or longer-dated structural positioning. Front-month expiration for LIMI sits at 105 days, so near-dated volume currently dominates the flow reading.

Learn how open interest is reported and how to read the data →

Daily open-interest history for LIMI options over the last ~23 trading days. Each row reflects the end-of-day total OI summed across all listed strikes and expirations.

Most recent 15 trading days (descending). Older history appears in the chart above.