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Albemarle Corp (ALB) options and signal

Figures as of 28 Sep 2026

ALB is Albemarle Corp, a Materials 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
Trade Card	Iron condor, 30 Oct	25 Sep
IV rank	87 of 100	28 Sep
At the money IV	53.5%	28 Sep
Priced move to 30 Oct	14.8% down, 15.4% up	28 Sep
Call wall and put wall	Both 110	28 Sep
Signal and the desk's view	No signal, view neutral	25 Sep
Last close	107.39	28 Sep
Next report	4 Nov 2026	28 Sep

Trade Cards

On 25 Sep 2026 the Trade Card for ALB was an iron condor expiring 30 Oct 2026, paper trading.

Figure	Value
Signal	Neutral
Strategy	Iron condor, credit
Legs	Buy the 80 put, Sell the 90 put, Sell the 128 call, Buy the 145 call
Expiry	30 Oct 2026, 35 days to expiry
Limit	A credit of at least $1.72
Probability of profit	73%, the option market's odds at expiry, from delta
Max loss	$1,528 per contract
Max profit	$172 per contract
Breakeven	88.28 and 129.72
IV rank at that expiry	88 of 100

Probability of profit is the option market's own odds from delta, not the model's.

Priced on the option chain at the close on 25 Sep 2026.

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Options Snapshot

ALB's IV rank is 87 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
IV rank	87 of 100
At the money IV	53.5%, near month, 32 days
Put/call ratio, open interest	1.29
Call open interest, strikes captured near the price	46,300 contracts
Put open interest, strikes captured near the price	59,700 contracts
Cost to trade at the money	Fair, 28.4% of the option's mid price

IV rank is where the at the money IV sits among ALB'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, ALB options priced a move of 14.8 percent down and 15.4 percent up by 30 Oct 2026.

Expiry	Days	Down	Up	Range
2 Oct 2026	4	5.3%	5.5%	101.75 to 113.35
9 Oct 2026	11	9.3%	8.8%	97.39 to 116.84
23 Oct 2026	25	14.7%	13.5%	91.59 to 121.89
30 Oct 2026	32	14.8%	15.4%	91.49 to 123.89
20 Nov 2026	53	20.2%	20.4%	85.69 to 129.29
18 Dec 2026	81	24.1%	24.7%	81.49 to 133.89
19 Feb 2027	144	32.6%	33.9%	72.39 to 143.79

The range is one standard deviation either side of the close of 107.39, 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, ALB's call wall and put wall are both at the 110 strike.

Figure	Value
Call wall, most open call gamma	110
Put wall, most open put gamma	110
Net dollar gamma, calls minus puts	minus $1.39 million
Total dollar gamma, both sides	$13.22 million
Close	107.39

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 9 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, ALB's at the money IV is 53.5 percent against 20 day realized volatility of 46.3 percent.

Figure	Value
At the money IV	53.5%
Realized volatility, 20 trading days	46.3%
Realized volatility, 60 trading days	43.1%
IV against its own weekly record	High, in the top fifth
Weekly readings on record	859, from 8 Jan 2010
Weeks the price moved more than the one week priced move	34.5% of 252 weeks

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

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

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Volatility Weather

On 28 Sep 2026, ALB's at the money IV runs from 53.7 percent at 4 days to 52.8 percent at 144 days.

Days to expiry	At the money IV
4	53.7%
11	51.7%
18	51.3%
25	51.6%
39	52.6%
53	52.9%
81	52.2%
144	52.8%

Near and far expiries price about the same volatility, a flat 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, ALB's IV ten percent below the price sits 0.9 points below at the money IV.

Strike area	Implied volatility	Against at the money
10% below the price	52.6%	-0.9 points
At the money	53.5%	0.0 points
10% above the price	50.2%	-3.4 points

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

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Volatility Surface

On 28 Sep 2026, ALB's surface spans 10 expiries out to 144 days, with IV from 50.1 to 60.3 percent near the price.

Figure	Value
Expiries captured	10
Nearest expiry	2 Oct 2026, 4 days
Farthest expiry	19 Feb 2027, 144 days
Points within 10% of the price, 7 days out or more	97
Lowest IV among them	50.1%
Highest IV among them	60.3%

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

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Expiry Ladder

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

Expiry	Days	At the money IV	Call open interest	Put open interest
2 Oct 2026	4	53.7%	1,205	1,178
9 Oct 2026	11	51.7%	373	464
16 Oct 2026	18	51.3%	3,895	3,190
23 Oct 2026	25	51.6%	318	447
30 Oct 2026	32	53.5%	262	410
6 Nov 2026	39	52.6%	22	5
20 Nov 2026	53	52.9%	4,107	5,198
18 Dec 2026	81	52.2%	7,266	10,696
15 Jan 2027	109	51.5%	22,190	33,500
19 Feb 2027	144	52.8%	6,649	4,571

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

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

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Strike Table

On 28 Sep 2026, ALB's largest open interest sits at the 110 strike, with 15,724 contracts across the captured expiries.

Strike	Call open interest	Put open interest	Total
110	7,936	7,788	15,724
140	2,301	4,683	6,984
130	4,597	2,315	6,912
105	4,429	1,368	5,797
115	2,392	3,123	5,515
135	3,996	1,496	5,492

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

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Since Yesterday

From 25 Sep 2026 to 28 Sep 2026, ALB's at the money IV moved from 53.5 percent to 53.5 percent.

Figure	25 Sep	28 Sep	Change
At the money IV	53.5%	53.5%	-0.0 points
Open interest, strikes captured near the price	115,101	105,946	-9,155
Put/call ratio, open interest	1.30	1.29	-0.01

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, 10,988 ALB option contracts traded, 0.9 times its own recent average.

Figure	Value
Calls traded	5,823
Puts traded	5,165
Against its recent average	0.9 times
Busier than	7 of its last 20 trading days
Open interest, whole chain	133,785 contracts
Volume to open interest	0.08
Unusual volume flag	Yes, 1 contract traded well above open interest
Largest flagged contract	The 80 put expiring 18 Dec, 600 traded against 121 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 ALB'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	129.36	minus $831,922	130	140
21 Sep 2026	112.92	minus $1.12 million	110	110
28 Sep 2026	107.39	minus $1.39 million	110	110

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

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

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Read-out

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

Figure	Value
Side	Neutral at 45 trading days, no signal
Level above the close	107.90, the swing high of 16 Sep 2026
Level below the close	104.66, the swing low of 28 Sep 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.

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Rank by Timeframe

On 25 Sep 2026 ALB sat at the 34th percentile of the model's 45 trading day ranking, paper trading.

Timeframe	Percentile	Side
10 trading days	56 of 100	Neutral
20 trading days	67 of 100	Neutral
45 trading days	34 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 ALB'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 ALB had carried no signal for at least 18 trading days, paper trading.

Trading day	Signal	45 day percentile
25 Sep 2026	None	34 of 100
24 Sep 2026	None	44 of 100
23 Sep 2026	None	24 of 100
22 Sep 2026	None	24 of 100
21 Sep 2026	None	59 of 100
18 Sep 2026	None	68 of 100
17 Sep 2026	None	61 of 100
16 Sep 2026	None	30 of 100

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Sector Split

On 25 Sep 2026, 35 of 62 Materials names were bullish and 11 were bearish, paper trading.

Sector	Names	Bullish	Bearish	Neutral
Materials	62	35	11	16

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Price Chart

ALB closed at 107.39 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
Last close	107.39
Change over 5 trading days	-4.9%
Change over 21 trading days	-20.9%
Change over 63 trading days	-17.2%
Change over 252 trading days	+26.6%
52 week high	221.00
52 week low	79.30
20 day moving average	119.71
50 day moving average	123.80
200 day moving average	155.90
RSI, 14 days	35

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

ALB reports next on 4 Nov 2026, a date worked out from past quarters.

Figure	Value
Next report	4 Nov 2026, after the close
Date	Worked out from past quarters
Move after the report of 5 Aug 2026	+5.5%
Move after the report of 6 May 2026	+3.0%
Move after the report of 11 Feb 2026	-9.4%
Move after the report of 5 Nov 2025	-0.8%

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

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Short Volume

On 25 Sep 2026, 58.4 percent of ALB's reported volume at the covered venues was marked short.

Figure	Value
Short sale share, 25 Sep	58.4%
Five day average	62.1%
52 week median	59.0%

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

Short volume as of 25 Sep 2026. Current on every plan.

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Seasonality

In the 32 Septembers on record, ALB's average change was plus 0.0 percent, and it rose in 50.0 percent of them.

Month	Average change	Middle change	Share of years up	Years
September	+0.0%	-0.1%	50.0%	32
October	+2.7%	+2.8%	59.4%	32
November	+5.0%	+5.0%	68.8%	32

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 1 headline naming ALB in the 3 days to 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
Headlines in the window	1
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 ALB's IV rank?: ALB's IV rank is 87 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.
What move are ALB options pricing?: On 28 Sep 2026, ALB options priced a move of 14.8 percent down and 15.4 percent up by 30 Oct 2026.
Where are ALB's call wall and put wall?: On 28 Sep 2026, ALB's call wall and put wall are both at the 110 strike.
What was the latest Trade Card for ALB on the Free plan?: On 25 Sep 2026 the Trade Card for ALB was an iron condor expiring 30 Oct 2026, paper trading.
When does ALB report earnings next?: ALB reports next on 4 Nov 2026, a date worked out from past quarters.

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