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ARCC options and signal

Figures as of 28 Sep 2026

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
Priced move to 16 Oct	4.0% down, 4.0% up	28 Sep
Call wall and put wall	20 and 19	28 Sep
Signal and the desk's view	No signal, view bullish	25 Sep

Options Snapshot

ARCC's at the money implied volatility is 17.9 percent on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
IV rank	Not stated, 0 weeks of record
At the money IV	17.9%, near month, 18 days
Put/call ratio, open interest	1.02
Call open interest, strikes captured near the price	43,800 contracts
Put open interest, strikes captured near the price	44,800 contracts
Cost to trade at the money	Fair, 38.6% of the option's mid price

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, ARCC options priced a move of 4.0 percent down and 4.0 percent up by 16 Oct 2026.

Expiry	Days	Down	Up	Range
16 Oct 2026	18	4.0%	4.0%	18.37 to 19.89
20 Nov 2026	53	8.1%	6.6%	17.59 to 20.40
18 Dec 2026	81	13.6%	8.2%	16.52 to 20.70
15 Jan 2027	109	13.7%	8.9%	16.51 to 20.84
19 Mar 2027	172	19.5%	14.4%	15.40 to 21.89

The range is one standard deviation either side of the close of 19.13, as the option prices imply it.

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

Thin quote at that expiry; its neighbours' reading stands in.

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Gamma Map

On 28 Sep 2026, ARCC's call wall is the 20 strike and its put wall is the 19 strike.

Figure	Value
Call wall, most open call gamma	20
Put wall, most open put gamma	19
Net dollar gamma, calls minus puts	$854,548
Total dollar gamma, both sides	$4.72 million
Close	19.13

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 2 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 Weather

On 28 Sep 2026, ARCC's at the money IV runs from 17.9 percent at 18 days to 21.0 percent at 172 days.

Days to expiry	At the money IV
18	17.9%
53	21.6%
81	21.5%
109	22.4%
172	21.0%

Far expiries price more volatility than near ones, an upward sloping 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 53 day expiry, ARCC's IV ten percent below the price sits 4.0 points above at the money IV.

Strike area	Implied volatility	Against at the money
10% below the price	25.6%	+4.0 points
At the money	21.6%	0.0 points
10% above the price	17.4%	-4.2 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, ARCC's surface spans 5 expiries out to 172 days, with IV from 17.4 to 50.5 percent near the price.

Figure	Value
Expiries captured	5
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	20
Lowest IV among them	17.4%
Highest IV among them	50.5%

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, ARCC has 5 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	17.9%	3,432	3,227
20 Nov 2026	53	21.6%	1,902	1,399
18 Dec 2026	81	21.5%	11,075	11,081
15 Jan 2027	109	22.4%	25,158	25,682
19 Mar 2027	172	21.0%	2,263	3,416

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, ARCC's largest open interest sits at the 20 strike, with 24,684 contracts across the captured expiries.

Strike	Call open interest	Put open interest	Total
20	21,729	2,955	24,684
19	3,884	7,453	11,337
22	10,061	616	10,677
15	27	9,786	9,813
16	1	8,182	8,183
18	494	7,422	7,916

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, 2,737 ARCC option contracts traded.

Figure	Value
Calls traded	659
Puts traded	2,078
Open interest, whole chain	104,585 contracts
Volume to open interest	0.03
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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Read-out

On 25 Sep 2026 the desk's view of ARCC was bullish, paper trading.

Figure	Value
Side	Bullish at 45 trading days, no signal
Strategy family	Bull call spread (buy a call spread)
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 ARCC sat at the 91st percentile of the model's 45 trading day ranking, paper trading.

Timeframe	Percentile	Side
10 trading days	54 of 100	Neutral
20 trading days	83 of 100	Bullish
45 trading days	91 of 100	Bullish

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, 2 of 3 timeframes put ARCC on the bullish side, paper trading.

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

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Signal History

On 25 Sep 2026 ARCC had carried no signal for 1 trading day, paper trading.

Trading day	Signal	45 day percentile
25 Sep 2026	None	91 of 100

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Sector Split

On 25 Sep 2026, 4 of 6 Unclassified names were bullish and 1 were bearish, paper trading.

Sector	Names	Bullish	Bearish	Neutral
Unclassified	6	4	1	1

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Questions

What is ARCC's IV rank?: ARCC's at the money implied volatility is 17.9 percent on 28 Sep 2026.
What move are ARCC options pricing?: On 28 Sep 2026, ARCC options priced a move of 4.0 percent down and 4.0 percent up by 16 Oct 2026.
Where are ARCC's call wall and put wall?: On 28 Sep 2026, ARCC's call wall is the 20 strike and its put wall is the 19 strike.
What was the desk's latest view of ARCC on the Free plan?: On 25 Sep 2026 the desk's view of ARCC was bullish, paper trading.

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