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Astera Labs, Inc. (ALAB) options and signal

Figures as of 28 Sep 2026

ALAB is Astera Labs, Inc., an Information Technology 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	79 of 100	28 Sep
At the money IV	84.0%	28 Sep
Priced move to 30 Oct	24.2% down, 25.3% up	28 Sep
Call wall and put wall	400 and 330	28 Sep
Signal and the desk's view	No signal, view bullish	25 Sep
Last close	351.31	28 Sep
Next report	3 Nov 2026	28 Sep

Options Snapshot

ALAB's IV rank is 79 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
IV rank	79 of 100
At the money IV	84.0%, near month, 32 days
Put/call ratio, open interest	0.59
Call open interest, strikes captured near the price	64,000 contracts
Put open interest, strikes captured near the price	38,000 contracts
Cost to trade at the money	Fair, 18.6% of the option's mid price

IV rank is where the at the money IV sits among ALAB'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, ALAB options priced a move of 24.2 percent down and 25.3 percent up by 30 Oct 2026.

Expiry	Days	Down	Up	Range
2 Oct 2026	4	9.3%	9.8%	318.51 to 385.81
9 Oct 2026	11	15.0%	16.0%	298.71 to 407.41
23 Oct 2026	25	21.2%	22.4%	276.91 to 430.01
30 Oct 2026	32	24.2%	25.3%	266.21 to 440.11
20 Nov 2026	53	33.6%	34.2%	233.31 to 471.31
18 Dec 2026	81	38.1%	40.1%	217.31 to 492.31
19 Mar 2027	172	54.1%	58.9%	161.31 to 558.31

The range is one standard deviation either side of the close of 351.31, 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, ALAB's call wall is the 400 strike and its put wall is the 330 strike.

Figure	Value
Call wall, most open call gamma	400
Put wall, most open put gamma	330
Net dollar gamma, calls minus puts	$14.07 million
Total dollar gamma, both sides	$42.26 million
Close	351.31

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 11 strikes, so no single flip strike is named.

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

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Volatility History

On 28 Sep 2026, ALAB's at the money IV is 84.0 percent against 20 day realized volatility of 96.7 percent.

Figure	Value
At the money IV	84.0%
Realized volatility, 20 trading days	96.7%
Realized volatility, 60 trading days	99.9%
IV against its own weekly record	In the middle
Weekly readings on record	105, from 12 Apr 2024
Weeks the price moved more than the one week priced move	28.8% of 104 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, ALAB's at the money IV runs from 90.9 percent at 4 days to 82.6 percent at 172 days.

Days to expiry	At the money IV
4	90.9%
11	87.0%
18	84.0%
25	83.1%
39	88.1%
53	89.1%
81	84.0%
172	82.6%

Near expiries price more volatility than far ones, an inverted term structure.

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

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Volatility Smile

On 28 Sep 2026, at the 32 day expiry, ALAB's IV ten percent below the price sits 1.3 points below at the money IV.

Strike area	Implied volatility	Against at the money
10% below the price	82.7%	-1.3 points
At the money	84.0%	0.0 points
10% above the price	84.1%	+0.0 points

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Volatility Surface

On 28 Sep 2026, ALAB's surface spans 10 expiries out to 172 days, with IV from 81.0 to 91.1 percent near the price.

Figure	Value
Expiries captured	10
Nearest expiry	2 Oct 2026, 4 days
Farthest expiry	19 Mar 2027, 172 days
Points within 10% of the price, 7 days out or more	117
Lowest IV among them	81.0%
Highest IV among them	91.1%

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Expiry Ladder

On 28 Sep 2026, ALAB has 10 captured expiries, from 2 Oct 2026 to 19 Mar 2027.

Expiry	Days	At the money IV	Call open interest	Put open interest
2 Oct 2026	4	90.9%	10,248	4,600
9 Oct 2026	11	87.0%	2,288	1,016
16 Oct 2026	18	84.0%	8,881	4,919
23 Oct 2026	25	83.1%	1,158	1,040
30 Oct 2026	32	84.0%	1,069	1,662
6 Nov 2026	39	88.1%	58	45
20 Nov 2026	53	89.1%	8,232	6,950
18 Dec 2026	81	84.0%	10,213	7,818
15 Jan 2027	109	81.5%	17,540	6,606
19 Mar 2027	172	82.6%	4,328	3,383

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

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Strike Table

On 28 Sep 2026, ALAB's largest open interest sits at the 300 strike, with 5,456 contracts across the captured expiries.

Strike	Call open interest	Put open interest	Total
300	3,164	2,292	5,456
400	4,894	143	5,037
350	3,610	1,089	4,699
280	1,903	2,562	4,465
330	2,341	1,886	4,227
290	1,438	2,381	3,819

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Since Yesterday

From 25 Sep 2026 to 28 Sep 2026, ALAB's at the money IV moved from 76.4 percent to 84.0 percent.

Figure	25 Sep	28 Sep	Change
At the money IV	76.4%	84.0%	+7.6 points
Open interest, strikes captured near the price	104,179	102,054	-2,125
Put/call ratio, open interest	0.55	0.59	+0.05

Open interest changes cannot identify buyers or sellers.

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Changed Hands

On 28 Sep 2026, 37,639 ALAB option contracts traded, 1.0 times its own recent average.

Figure	Value
Calls traded	19,640
Puts traded	17,999
Against its recent average	1.0 times
Busier than	18 of its last 20 trading days
Open interest, whole chain	201,256 contracts
Volume to open interest	0.19
Unusual volume flag	Yes, 3 contracts traded well above open interest
Largest flagged contract	The 330 put expiring 16 Oct, 1,767 traded against 194 open

Traded volume and open interest are shown side by side and never combined. 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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Positioning Replay

The replay holds 33 trading days of ALAB'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	311.99	$4.41 million	350	300
21 Sep 2026	340.74	$11.35 million	350	300
28 Sep 2026	351.31	$14.07 million	400	330

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 ALAB was bullish, paper trading.

Figure	Value
Side	Bullish at 45 trading days, no signal
Level above the close	369.15, the swing high of 22 Sep 2026
Level below the close	321.65, the swing low of 4 Sep 2026, a close past it runs against the view
The chart	Sits with the view
Strategy family	Cash-secured put (sell a put below the price)
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 ALAB sat at the 76th percentile of the model's 45 trading day ranking, paper trading.

Timeframe	Percentile	Side
10 trading days	26 of 100	Neutral
20 trading days	77 of 100	Neutral
45 trading days	76 of 100	Neutral

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

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

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Timeframe Agreement

On 25 Sep 2026 ALAB'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 ALAB had carried no signal for 3 trading days, paper trading.

Trading day	Signal	45 day percentile
25 Sep 2026	None	76 of 100
24 Sep 2026	None	74 of 100
23 Sep 2026	None	6 of 100
22 Sep 2026	Bearish	4 of 100
21 Sep 2026	None	59 of 100
18 Sep 2026	None	75 of 100
17 Sep 2026	None	46 of 100
16 Sep 2026	None	27 of 100

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Sector Split

On 25 Sep 2026, 80 of 187 Information Technology names were bullish and 61 were bearish, paper trading.

Sector	Names	Bullish	Bearish	Neutral
Information Technology	187	80	61	46

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Price Chart

ALAB closed at 351.31 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
Last close	351.31
Change over 5 trading days	+3.1%
Change over 21 trading days	+15.5%
Change over 63 trading days	-23.0%
Change over 252 trading days	+75.1%
52 week high	499.48
52 week low	97.89
20 day moving average	306.30
50 day moving average	305.98
200 day moving average	237.13
RSI, 14 days	60

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

ALAB reports next on 3 Nov 2026, a date worked out from past quarters.

Figure	Value
Next report	3 Nov 2026, after the close
Date	Worked out from past quarters
Move after the report of 4 Aug 2026	-12.0%
Move after the report of 5 May 2026	-0.8%
Move after the report of 10 Feb 2026	-21.4%
Move after the report of 4 Nov 2025	+1.5%

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

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Seasonality

In the 2 Septembers on record, ALAB's average change was plus 14.6 percent, and it rose in 100.0 percent of them.

Month	Average change	Middle change	Share of years up	Years
September	+14.6%	+14.6%	100.0%	2
October	+14.6%	+14.6%	50.0%	2
November	+15.8%	+15.8%	50.0%	2

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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Questions

What is ALAB's IV rank?: ALAB's IV rank is 79 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.
What move are ALAB options pricing?: On 28 Sep 2026, ALAB options priced a move of 24.2 percent down and 25.3 percent up by 30 Oct 2026.
Where are ALAB's call wall and put wall?: On 28 Sep 2026, ALAB's call wall is the 400 strike and its put wall is the 330 strike.
What was the desk's latest view of ALAB on the Free plan?: On 25 Sep 2026 the desk's view of ALAB was bullish, paper trading.
When does ALAB report earnings next?: ALAB reports next on 3 Nov 2026, a date worked out from past quarters.

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