Health Care

Agilent Technologies Inc (A) options and signal

Figures as of 28 Sep 2026

A is Agilent Technologies Inc, a Health Care name the model ranks every trading day. The options figures are from the close on 28 Sep 2026. The model's figures are from 25 Sep 2026, one trading day behind the latest, as the Free plan shows them. Every model figure is paper trading.

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At a glance

Figure	Value	Date
IV rank	93 of 100	28 Sep
At the money IV	36.3%	28 Sep
Priced move to 16 Oct	7.9% down, 7.9% up	28 Sep
Call wall and put wall	165 and 160	28 Sep
Signal and the desk's view	No signal, view neutral	25 Sep
Last close	175.21	28 Sep
Next report	25 Nov 2026	28 Sep

Options Snapshot

A's IV rank is 93 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
IV rank	93 of 100
At the money IV	36.3%, near month, 18 days
Put/call ratio, open interest	0.40
Call open interest, strikes captured near the price	14,600 contracts
Put open interest, strikes captured near the price	5,820 contracts
Cost to trade at the money	Fair, 17.0% of the option's mid price

IV rank is where the at the money IV sits among A's own weekly readings, 0 the lowest and 100 the highest.

From the option chain at the close on 28 Sep 2026. Current on every plan.

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Priced Range

On 28 Sep 2026, A options priced a move of 7.9 percent down and 7.9 percent up by 16 Oct 2026.

Expiry	Days	Down	Up	Range
16 Oct 2026	18	7.9%	7.9%	161.31 to 189.11
20 Nov 2026	53	13.1%	14.8%	152.21 to 201.11
18 Dec 2026	81	18.5%	18.4%	142.71 to 207.51
15 Jan 2027	109	20.3%	20.9%	139.61 to 211.91
19 Feb 2027	144	22.0%	24.0%	136.61 to 217.21
19 Mar 2027	172	23.1%	27.0%	134.71 to 222.51

The range is one standard deviation either side of the close of 175.21, as the option prices imply it.

A priced move restates option prices at the close and says nothing certain about where the price goes.

From the option chain at the close on 28 Sep 2026. Current on every plan.

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Gamma Map

On 28 Sep 2026, A's call wall is the 165 strike and its put wall is the 160 strike.

Figure	Value
Call wall, most open call gamma	165
Put wall, most open put gamma	160
Net dollar gamma, calls minus puts	$4.4 million
Total dollar gamma, both sides	$7.16 million
Close	175.21

Dollar gamma is stated for a one percent move in the price.

Net is calls minus puts under the standard convention, not a record of who holds the contracts.

Net gamma changes sign at 4 strikes, so no single flip strike is named.

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Volatility History

On 28 Sep 2026, A's at the money IV is 36.3 percent against 20 day realized volatility of 31.7 percent.

Figure	Value
At the money IV	36.3%
Realized volatility, 20 trading days	31.7%
Realized volatility, 60 trading days	29.0%
IV against its own weekly record	High, in the top fifth
Weekly readings on record	865, from 8 Jan 2010
Weeks the price moved more than the one week priced move	29.4% of 252 weeks

Realized volatility is worked out from the daily closes the desk holds, not from the option chain.

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Volatility Weather

On 28 Sep 2026, A's at the money IV runs from 36.3 percent at 18 days to 36.7 percent at 172 days.

Days to expiry	At the money IV
18	36.3%
53	35.7%
81	40.7%
109	37.2%
144	36.7%
172	36.7%

Near and far expiries price about the same volatility, a flat term structure.

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Volatility Smile

On 28 Sep 2026, at the 53 day expiry, A's IV ten percent below the price sits 2.6 points above at the money IV.

Strike area	Implied volatility	Against at the money
10% below the price	38.3%	+2.6 points
At the money	35.7%	0.0 points
10% above the price	35.9%	+0.2 points

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Volatility Surface

On 28 Sep 2026, A's surface spans 6 expiries out to 172 days, with IV from 3.1 to 43.3 percent near the price.

Figure	Value
Expiries captured	6
Nearest expiry	16 Oct 2026, 18 days
Farthest expiry	19 Mar 2027, 172 days
Points within 10% of the price, 7 days out or more	41
Lowest IV among them	3.1%
Highest IV among them	43.3%

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Expiry Ladder

On 28 Sep 2026, A has 6 captured expiries, from 16 Oct 2026 to 19 Mar 2027.

Expiry	Days	At the money IV	Call open interest	Put open interest
16 Oct 2026	18	36.3%	5,233	2,608
20 Nov 2026	53	35.7%	1,979	596
18 Dec 2026	81	40.7%	1,120	317
15 Jan 2027	109	37.2%	5,464	1,470
19 Feb 2027	144	36.7%	190	105
19 Mar 2027	172	36.7%	594	727

Open interest is summed over the strikes captured near the price on each expiry.

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Strike Table

On 28 Sep 2026, A's largest open interest sits at the 160 strike, with 3,188 contracts across the captured expiries.

Strike	Call open interest	Put open interest	Total
160	2,250	938	3,188
165	2,445	204	2,649
190	2,162	7	2,169
150	871	956	1,827
155	671	951	1,622
180	1,408	7	1,415

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Since Yesterday

From 25 Sep 2026 to 28 Sep 2026, A's at the money IV moved from 33.7 percent to 36.3 percent.

Figure	25 Sep	28 Sep	Change
At the money IV	33.7%	36.3%	+2.6 points
Open interest, strikes captured near the price	24,649	20,403	-4,246
Put/call ratio, open interest	0.67	0.40	-0.27

Open interest changes cannot identify buyers or sellers.

From the option chain at the close on 28 Sep 2026. Current on every plan.

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Changed Hands

On 28 Sep 2026, 2,133 A option contracts traded, 0.6 times its own recent average.

Figure	Value
Calls traded	1,064
Puts traded	1,069
Against its recent average	0.6 times
Busier than	4 of its last 20 trading days
Open interest, whole chain	27,862 contracts
Volume to open interest	0.08
Unusual volume flag	No

Traded volume and open interest are shown side by side and never combined. Open interest changes cannot identify buyers or sellers.

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Positioning Replay

The replay holds 33 trading days of A's option positioning, from 11 Aug 2026 to 28 Sep 2026.

Date	Close	Net dollar gamma	Top call strike	Top put strike
11 Aug 2026	149.49	$4.2 million	150	140
21 Sep 2026	161.94	$1.83 million	160	140
28 Sep 2026	175.21	$4.4 million	165	160

Each frame restates one nightly capture. Net is calls minus puts, a convention, not who holds the contracts.

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Read-out

On 25 Sep 2026 the desk's view of A was neutral, paper trading.

Figure	Value
Side	Neutral at 45 trading days, no signal
Level above the close	176.02, the swing high of 28 Sep 2026
Level below the close	163.75, the swing low of 27 Aug 2026
Strategy family	Iron condor (sell both sides, defined risk)
Price target	None. The desk has no price model.

The levels are prices the shares turned at on the chart, with the date of each.

Paper trading. The model's figures from 25 Sep 2026, one trading day behind, as the Free plan shows them.

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Rank by Timeframe

On 25 Sep 2026 A sat at the 41st percentile of the model's 45 trading day ranking, paper trading.

Timeframe	Percentile	Side
10 trading days	64 of 100	Neutral
20 trading days	42 of 100	Neutral
45 trading days	41 of 100	Neutral

100 is the top of the ranking. A name in the middle three fifths is neutral.

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Timeframe Agreement

On 25 Sep 2026 A's near timeframes were neutral and its long timeframe was neutral, paper trading.

Group	Timeframes	Side	On that side
Near	10 day, 20 day	Neutral	0 of 2
Long	45 day	Neutral	0 of 1

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Signal History

On 25 Sep 2026 A had carried no signal for at least 18 trading days, paper trading.

Trading day	Signal	45 day percentile
25 Sep 2026	None	41 of 100
24 Sep 2026	None	56 of 100
23 Sep 2026	None	81 of 100
22 Sep 2026	None	71 of 100
21 Sep 2026	None	73 of 100
18 Sep 2026	None	64 of 100
17 Sep 2026	None	58 of 100
16 Sep 2026	None	68 of 100

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Sector Split

On 25 Sep 2026, 32 of 120 Health Care names were bullish and 52 were bearish, paper trading.

Sector	Names	Bullish	Bearish	Neutral
Health Care	120	32	52	36

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Price Chart

A closed at 175.21 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
Last close	175.21
Change over 5 trading days	+8.2%
Change over 21 trading days	+11.1%
Change over 63 trading days	+31.9%
Change over 252 trading days	+43.7%
52 week high	176.02
52 week low	108.35
20 day moving average	155.82
50 day moving average	149.62
200 day moving average	132.25
RSI, 14 days	77

Worked out from the desk's own daily bars, adjusted for share splits.

From the daily bars through 28 Sep 2026. Current on every plan.

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Earnings Radar

A reports next on 25 Nov 2026, a date worked out from past quarters.

Figure	Value
Next report	25 Nov 2026
Date	Worked out from past quarters

Earnings calendar as of 28 Sep 2026. Current on every plan.

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Short Volume

On 25 Sep 2026, 35.9 percent of A's reported volume at the covered venues was marked short.

Figure	Value
Short sale share, 25 Sep	35.9%
Five day average	41.7%
52 week median	48.8%

Short sale volume counts trades marked short at the covered venues, mostly off exchange. It is not the same as short interest.

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Seasonality

In the 26 Septembers on record, A's average change was minus 1.6 percent, and it rose in 53.8 percent of them.

Month	Average change	Middle change	Share of years up	Years
September	-1.6%	+0.4%	53.8%	26
October	+1.3%	-0.1%	46.2%	26
November	+7.6%	+6.5%	84.6%	26

Each figure is a month end to month end change in past years. A past month says nothing certain about the next one.

Monthly history through 28 Sep 2026. Current on every plan.

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Headlines

The desk's news feeds carried 2 headlines naming A in the 3 days to 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
Headlines in the window	2
Latest	28 Sep 2026

The titles are in the Headlines window, with the time each was published.

Headlines as of 28 Sep 2026. Current on every plan.

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Questions

What is A's IV rank?: A's IV rank is 93 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.
What move are A options pricing?: On 28 Sep 2026, A options priced a move of 7.9 percent down and 7.9 percent up by 16 Oct 2026.
Where are A's call wall and put wall?: On 28 Sep 2026, A's call wall is the 165 strike and its put wall is the 160 strike.
What was the desk's latest view of A on the Free plan?: On 25 Sep 2026 the desk's view of A was neutral, paper trading.
When does A report earnings next?: A reports next on 25 Nov 2026, a date worked out from past quarters.

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