Consumer Discretionary

AutoNation, Inc. (AN) options and signal

Figures as of 28 Sep 2026

AN is AutoNation, Inc., a Consumer Discretionary 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	88 of 100	28 Sep
At the money IV	43.4%	28 Sep
Priced move to 16 Oct	9.5% down, 10.0% up	28 Sep
Call wall and put wall	180 and 170	28 Sep
Signal and the desk's view	No signal, view neutral	25 Sep
Last close	161.36	28 Sep
Next report	29 Oct 2026	28 Sep

Options Snapshot

AN's IV rank is 88 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
IV rank	88 of 100
At the money IV	43.4%, near month, 18 days
Put/call ratio, open interest	2.98
Call open interest, strikes captured near the price	900 contracts
Put open interest, strikes captured near the price	2,680 contracts
Cost to trade at the money	Wide, 41.9% of the option's mid price

IV rank is where the at the money IV sits among AN'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, AN options priced a move of 9.5 percent down and 10.0 percent up by 16 Oct 2026.

Expiry	Days	Down	Up	Range
16 Oct 2026	18	9.5%	10.0%	145.96 to 177.46
20 Nov 2026	53	15.7%	17.9%	136.06 to 190.26
15 Jan 2027	109	19.5%	24.6%	129.96 to 201.06
16 Apr 2027	200	26.7%	32.8%	118.26 to 214.36

The range is one standard deviation either side of the close of 161.36, 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, AN's call wall is the 180 strike and its put wall is the 170 strike.

Figure	Value
Call wall, most open call gamma	180
Put wall, most open put gamma	170
Net dollar gamma, calls minus puts	minus $970,380
Total dollar gamma, both sides	$1.36 million
Close	161.36

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.

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, AN's at the money IV is 43.4 percent against 20 day realized volatility of 48.3 percent.

Figure	Value
At the money IV	43.4%
Realized volatility, 20 trading days	48.3%
Realized volatility, 60 trading days	41.2%
IV against its own weekly record	High, in the top fifth
Weekly readings on record	847, from 8 Jan 2010
Weeks the price moved more than the one week priced move	25.4% of 236 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, AN's at the money IV runs from 43.4 percent at 18 days to 40.6 percent at 200 days.

Days to expiry	At the money IV
18	43.4%
53	45.6%
109	41.5%
200	40.6%

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

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Volatility Smile

On 28 Sep 2026, at the 53 day expiry, AN's IV ten percent below the price sits 90.9 points above at the money IV.

Strike area	Implied volatility	Against at the money
10% below the price	136.5%	+90.9 points
At the money	45.6%	0.0 points
10% above the price	42.8%	-2.9 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, AN's surface spans 4 expiries out to 200 days, with IV from 19.7 to 235.8 percent near the price.

Figure	Value
Expiries captured	4
Nearest expiry	16 Oct 2026, 18 days
Farthest expiry	16 Apr 2027, 200 days
Points within 10% of the price, 7 days out or more	24
Lowest IV among them	19.7%
Highest IV among them	235.8%

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Expiry Ladder

On 28 Sep 2026, AN has 4 captured expiries, from 16 Oct 2026 to 16 Apr 2027.

Expiry	Days	At the money IV	Call open interest	Put open interest
16 Oct 2026	18	43.4%	266	1,716
20 Nov 2026	53	45.6%	306	555
15 Jan 2027	109	41.5%	278	353
16 Apr 2027	200	40.6%	50	57

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

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Strike Table

On 28 Sep 2026, AN's largest open interest sits at the 170 strike, with 1,126 contracts across the captured expiries.

Strike	Call open interest	Put open interest	Total
170	49	1,077	1,126
180	220	299	519
140	1	274	275
150	7	268	275
200	169	60	229
175	36	165	201

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, AN's at the money IV moved from 42.2 percent to 43.4 percent.

Figure	25 Sep	28 Sep	Change
At the money IV	42.2%	43.4%	+1.1 points
Open interest, strikes captured near the price	3,562	3,581	+19
Put/call ratio, open interest	2.98	2.98	+0.00

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, 622 AN option contracts traded, 1.1 times its own recent average.

Figure	Value
Calls traded	181
Puts traded	441
Against its recent average	1.1 times
Open interest, whole chain	3,699 contracts
Volume to open interest	0.17
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.

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

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Positioning Replay

The replay holds 5 trading days of AN's option positioning, from 22 Sep 2026 to 28 Sep 2026.

Date	Close	Net dollar gamma	Top call strike	Top put strike
22 Sep 2026	169.61	minus $858,511	180	170
28 Sep 2026	161.36	minus $970,380	180	170

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 AN was neutral, paper trading.

Figure	Value
Side	Neutral at 45 trading days, no signal
Level above the close	192.00, the swing high of 25 Aug 2026
Level below the close	161.35, 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.

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 AN sat at the 53rd percentile of the model's 45 trading day ranking, paper trading.

Timeframe	Percentile	Side
10 trading days	45 of 100	Neutral
20 trading days	55 of 100	Neutral
45 trading days	53 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 AN'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

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

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Signal History

On 25 Sep 2026 AN had carried no signal for at least 5 trading days, paper trading.

Trading day	Signal	45 day percentile
25 Sep 2026	None	53 of 100
24 Sep 2026	None	35 of 100
23 Sep 2026	None	49 of 100
22 Sep 2026	None	33 of 100
21 Sep 2026	None	45 of 100

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

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Sector Split

On 25 Sep 2026, 27 of 106 Consumer Discretionary names were bullish and 33 were bearish, paper trading.

Sector	Names	Bullish	Bearish	Neutral
Consumer Discretionary	106	27	33	46

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

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Price Chart

AN closed at 161.36 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
Last close	161.36
Change over 5 trading days	-4.4%
Change over 21 trading days	-18.8%
Change over 63 trading days	-14.6%
Change over 252 trading days	-25.3%
52 week high	235.81
52 week low	161.35
20 day moving average	190.12
50 day moving average	200.15
200 day moving average	199.71
RSI, 14 days	24

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

AN reports next on 29 Oct 2026, a date confirmed by the company.

Figure	Value
Next report	29 Oct 2026, before the open
Date	Confirmed by the company
Move after the report of 31 Jul 2026	-1.1%
Move after the report of 1 May 2026	-1.1%
Move after the report of 6 Feb 2026	+6.2%
Move after the report of 25 Jul 2025	+1.5%

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

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Company Events

AN filed 1 current report in the 14 days to 28 Sep 2026, the latest on 15 Sep 2026.

Filed	Report	What it covers
15 Sep 2026	Current report	Other Events

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

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Seasonality

In the 36 Septembers on record, AN's average change was minus 2.0 percent, and it rose in 38.9 percent of them.

Month	Average change	Middle change	Share of years up	Years
September	-2.0%	-3.5%	38.9%	36
October	-1.3%	-0.3%	41.7%	36
November	+2.9%	+3.2%	69.4%	36

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 AN in the 3 days to 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
Headlines in the window	1
Latest	26 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 AN's IV rank?: AN's IV rank is 88 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.
What move are AN options pricing?: On 28 Sep 2026, AN options priced a move of 9.5 percent down and 10.0 percent up by 16 Oct 2026.
Where are AN's call wall and put wall?: On 28 Sep 2026, AN's call wall is the 180 strike and its put wall is the 170 strike.
What was the desk's latest view of AN on the Free plan?: On 25 Sep 2026 the desk's view of AN was neutral, paper trading.
When does AN report earnings next?: AN reports next on 29 Oct 2026, a date confirmed by the company.

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