Utilities

Atmos Energy Corp (ATO) options and signal

Figures as of 28 Sep 2026

ATO is Atmos Energy Corp, an Utilities 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	62 of 100	28 Sep
At the money IV	22.2%	28 Sep
Priced move to 16 Oct	5.6% down, 4.4% up	28 Sep
Call wall and put wall	160 and 165	28 Sep
Signal and the desk's view	No signal, view bullish	25 Sep
Last close	157.05	28 Sep
Next report	4 Nov 2026	28 Sep

Options Snapshot

ATO's IV rank is 62 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
IV rank	62 of 100
At the money IV	22.2%, near month, 18 days
Put/call ratio, open interest	0.29
Call open interest, strikes captured near the price	1,420 contracts
Put open interest, strikes captured near the price	407 contracts
Cost to trade at the money	Wide, 46.7% of the option's mid price

IV rank is where the at the money IV sits among ATO'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, ATO options priced a move of 5.6 percent down and 4.4 percent up by 16 Oct 2026.

Expiry	Days	Down	Up	Range
16 Oct 2026	18	5.6%	4.4%	148.31 to 163.93
20 Nov 2026	53	8.5%	8.9%	143.75 to 170.95
15 Jan 2027	109	11.0%	11.0%	139.85 to 174.25
16 Apr 2027	200	16.4%	15.9%	131.35 to 181.95

The range is one standard deviation either side of the close of 157.05, 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, ATO's call wall is the 160 strike and its put wall is the 165 strike.

Figure	Value
Call wall, most open call gamma	160
Put wall, most open put gamma	165
Net dollar gamma, calls minus puts	$717,375
Total dollar gamma, both sides	$1.33 million
Close	157.05

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 3 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, ATO's at the money IV is 22.2 percent against 20 day realized volatility of 11.0 percent.

Figure	Value
At the money IV	22.2%
Realized volatility, 20 trading days	11.0%
Realized volatility, 60 trading days	15.2%
IV against its own weekly record	In the middle
Weekly readings on record	799, from 8 Jan 2010
Weeks the price moved more than the one week priced move	24.6% 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, ATO's at the money IV runs from 22.2 percent at 18 days to 22.0 percent at 200 days.

Days to expiry	At the money IV
18	22.2%
53	21.0%
109	19.0%
200	22.0%

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, ATO's IV ten percent below the price sits 8.1 points above at the money IV.

Strike area	Implied volatility	Against at the money
10% below the price	29.1%	+8.1 points
At the money	21.0%	0.0 points
10% above the price	23.5%	+2.5 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, ATO's surface spans 4 expiries out to 200 days, with IV from 18.5 to 50.9 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	23
Lowest IV among them	18.5%
Highest IV among them	50.9%

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Expiry Ladder

On 28 Sep 2026, ATO 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	22.2%	901	171
20 Nov 2026	53	21.0%	198	43
15 Jan 2027	109	19.0%	292	186
16 Apr 2027	200	22.0%	28	7

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

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Strike Table

On 28 Sep 2026, ATO's largest open interest sits at the 160 strike, with 624 contracts across the captured expiries.

Strike	Call open interest	Put open interest	Total
160	545	79	624
165	126	168	294
170	222	26	248
175	217	13	230
185	114	0	114
195	81	0	81

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Since Yesterday

From 25 Sep 2026 to 28 Sep 2026, ATO's at the money IV moved from 19.8 percent to 22.2 percent.

Figure	25 Sep	28 Sep	Change
At the money IV	19.8%	22.2%	+2.4 points
Open interest, strikes captured near the price	1,734	1,826	+92
Put/call ratio, open interest	0.25	0.29	+0.03

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, 335 ATO option contracts traded, 1.0 times its own recent average.

Figure	Value
Calls traded	157
Puts traded	178
Against its recent average	1.0 times
Busier than	18 of its last 20 trading days
Open interest, whole chain	2,143 contracts
Volume to open interest	0.16
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 33 trading days of ATO'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	169.21	$663,567	175	170
21 Sep 2026	158.27	$424,709	160	170
28 Sep 2026	157.05	$717,375	160	165

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 ATO was bullish, paper trading.

Figure	Value
Side	Bullish at 45 trading days, no signal
Level above the close	164.62, the swing high of 31 Aug 2026
Level below the close	155.00, the swing low of 23 Sep 2026, a close past it runs against the view
The chart	Sits against 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 ATO sat at the 80th percentile of the model's 45 trading day ranking, paper trading.

Timeframe	Percentile	Side
10 trading days	7 of 100	Bearish
20 trading days	11 of 100	Bearish
45 trading days	80 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 ATO's near timeframes were bearish and its long timeframe was neutral, paper trading.

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

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Signal History

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

Trading day	Signal	45 day percentile
25 Sep 2026	None	80 of 100
24 Sep 2026	None	60 of 100
23 Sep 2026	None	72 of 100
22 Sep 2026	None	72 of 100
21 Sep 2026	None	53 of 100
18 Sep 2026	None	33 of 100
17 Sep 2026	None	60 of 100
16 Sep 2026	None	79 of 100

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Sector Split

On 25 Sep 2026, 20 of 35 Utilities names were bullish and 11 were bearish, paper trading.

Sector	Names	Bullish	Bearish	Neutral
Utilities	35	20	11	4

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Price Chart

ATO closed at 157.05 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
Last close	157.05
Change over 5 trading days	-0.8%
Change over 21 trading days	-6.1%
Change over 63 trading days	-10.2%
Change over 252 trading days	-5.7%
52 week high	192.51
52 week low	155.00
20 day moving average	162.68
50 day moving average	168.37
200 day moving average	174.71
RSI, 14 days	26

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

ATO 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	-0.1%
Move after the report of 6 May 2026	-1.6%
Move after the report of 3 Feb 2026	+1.8%
Move after the report of 6 Nov 2025	+1.7%

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

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Short Volume

On 25 Sep 2026, 65.8 percent of ATO's reported volume at the covered venues was marked short.

Figure	Value
Short sale share, 25 Sep	65.8%
Five day average	44.1%
52 week median	53.0%

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 36 Septembers on record, ATO's average change was minus 0.8 percent, and it rose in 47.2 percent of them.

Month	Average change	Middle change	Share of years up	Years
September	-0.8%	-0.2%	47.2%	36
October	+0.9%	+0.6%	58.3%	36
November	+1.9%	+2.4%	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 ATO 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 ATO's IV rank?: ATO's IV rank is 62 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.
What move are ATO options pricing?: On 28 Sep 2026, ATO options priced a move of 5.6 percent down and 4.4 percent up by 16 Oct 2026.
Where are ATO's call wall and put wall?: On 28 Sep 2026, ATO's call wall is the 160 strike and its put wall is the 165 strike.
What was the desk's latest view of ATO on the Free plan?: On 25 Sep 2026 the desk's view of ATO was bullish, paper trading.
When does ATO report earnings next?: ATO reports next on 4 Nov 2026, a date worked out from past quarters.

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Strike	Call open interest	Put open interest	Total
160	545	79	624
165	126	168	294
170	222	26	248
175	217	13	230
185	114	0	114
195	81	0	81

Strike	Call open interest	Put open interest	Total
160	545	79	624
165	126	168	294
170	222	26	248
175	217	13	230
185	114	0	114
195	81	0	81

Strike	Call open interest	Put open interest	Total
160	545	79	624
165	126	168	294
170	222	26	248
175	217	13	230
185	114	0	114
195	81	0	81