Materials

Ball Corp (BALL) options and signal

Figures as of 28 Sep 2026

BALL is Ball 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
IV rank	57 of 100	28 Sep
At the money IV	29.7%	28 Sep
Priced move to 16 Oct	6.2% down, 6.1% up	28 Sep
Call wall and put wall	Both 60	28 Sep
Signal and the desk's view	No signal, view neutral	25 Sep
Last close	57.13	28 Sep
Next report	3 Nov 2026	28 Sep

Options Snapshot

BALL's IV rank is 57 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
IV rank	57 of 100
At the money IV	29.7%, near month, 18 days
Put/call ratio, open interest	0.50
Call open interest, strikes captured near the price	8,670 contracts
Put open interest, strikes captured near the price	4,320 contracts
Cost to trade at the money	Wide, 44.1% of the option's mid price

IV rank is where the at the money IV sits among BALL'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, BALL options priced a move of 6.2 percent down and 6.1 percent up by 16 Oct 2026.

Expiry	Days	Down	Up	Range
16 Oct 2026	18	6.2%	6.1%	53.61 to 60.60
20 Nov 2026	53	11.9%	12.1%	50.34 to 64.06
18 Dec 2026	81	15.2%	14.2%	48.46 to 65.26
15 Jan 2027	109	12.2%	16.5%	50.17 to 66.55
19 Feb 2027	144	18.7%	18.9%	46.43 to 67.93
19 Mar 2027	172	29.4%	38.0%	40.33 to 78.83

The range is one standard deviation either side of the close of 57.13, as the option prices imply it.

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

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, BALL's call wall and put wall are both at the 60 strike.

Figure	Value
Call wall, most open call gamma	60
Put wall, most open put gamma	60
Flip strike, where net gamma changes sign	61.53
Net dollar gamma, calls minus puts	$234,600
Total dollar gamma, both sides	$1.46 million
Close	57.13

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.

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, BALL's at the money IV is 29.7 percent against 20 day realized volatility of 19.6 percent.

Figure	Value
At the money IV	29.7%
Realized volatility, 20 trading days	19.6%
Realized volatility, 60 trading days	21.9%
IV against its own weekly record	In the middle
Weekly readings on record	218, from 3 Jun 2022
Weeks the price moved more than the one week priced move	29.0% of 217 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, BALL's at the money IV runs from 29.7 percent at 18 days to 42.9 percent at 172 days.

Days to expiry	At the money IV
18	29.7%
53	32.5%
81	31.5%
109	29.1%
144	30.2%
172	42.9%

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, BALL's IV ten percent below the price sits 4.7 points above at the money IV.

Strike area	Implied volatility	Against at the money
10% below the price	37.1%	+4.7 points
At the money	32.5%	0.0 points
10% above the price	32.2%	-0.2 points

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Volatility Surface

On 28 Sep 2026, BALL's surface spans 6 expiries out to 172 days, with IV from 20.2 to 47.0 percent near the price.

Figure	Value
Expiries captured	6
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	28
Lowest IV among them	20.2%
Highest IV among them	47.0%

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Expiry Ladder

On 28 Sep 2026, BALL has 6 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	29.7%	1,644	484
20 Nov 2026	53	32.5%	1,952	598
18 Dec 2026	81	31.5%	1,368	943
15 Jan 2027	109	29.1%	3,162	675
19 Feb 2027	144	30.2%	157	148
19 Mar 2027	172	42.9%	383	1,467

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

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Strike Table

On 28 Sep 2026, BALL's largest open interest sits at the 60 strike, with 2,250 contracts across the captured expiries.

Strike	Call open interest	Put open interest	Total
60	947	1,303	2,250
62.5	947	793	1,740
65	1,455	54	1,509
70	1,377	0	1,377
72.5	1,189	0	1,189
55	96	912	1,008

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Since Yesterday

From 25 Sep 2026 to 28 Sep 2026, BALL's at the money IV moved from 27.4 percent to 29.7 percent.

Figure	25 Sep	28 Sep	Change
At the money IV	27.4%	29.7%	+2.3 points
Open interest, strikes captured near the price	12,825	12,981	+156
Put/call ratio, open interest	0.50	0.50	-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, 1,723 BALL option contracts traded, 1.0 times its own recent average.

Figure	Value
Calls traded	660
Puts traded	1,063
Against its recent average	1.0 times
Busier than	1 of its last 17 trading days
Open interest, whole chain	13,839 contracts
Volume to open interest	0.12
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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Positioning Replay

The replay holds 29 trading days of BALL's option positioning, from 12 Aug 2026 to 28 Sep 2026.

Date	Close	Net dollar gamma	Top call strike	Top put strike
12 Aug 2026	62.14	$706,766	67.5	55
21 Sep 2026	59.71	$221,901	65	60
28 Sep 2026	57.13	$234,600	60	60

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 BALL was neutral, paper trading.

Figure	Value
Side	Neutral at 45 trading days, no signal
Level above the close	59.34, the swing high of 10 Sep 2026
Level below the close	56.00, 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 BALL sat at the 64th percentile of the model's 45 trading day ranking, paper trading.

Timeframe	Percentile	Side
10 trading days	61 of 100	Neutral
20 trading days	64 of 100	Neutral
45 trading days	64 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 BALL'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 BALL had carried no signal for at least 16 trading days, paper trading.

Trading day	Signal	45 day percentile
25 Sep 2026	None	64 of 100
24 Sep 2026	None	74 of 100
23 Sep 2026	None	67 of 100
22 Sep 2026	None	73 of 100
21 Sep 2026	None	77 of 100
18 Sep 2026	None	77 of 100
17 Sep 2026	None	77 of 100
16 Sep 2026	None	61 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

BALL closed at 57.13 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
Last close	57.13
Change over 5 trading days	-4.3%
Change over 21 trading days	-9.8%
Change over 63 trading days	-7.9%
Change over 252 trading days	+17.9%
52 week high	68.29
52 week low	44.83
20 day moving average	60.43
50 day moving average	62.22
200 day moving average	59.92
RSI, 14 days	29

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

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

Figure	Value
Next report	3 Nov 2026, before the open
Date	Worked out from past quarters
Move after the report of 4 Aug 2026	-2.1%
Move after the report of 5 May 2026	-6.3%
Move after the report of 3 Feb 2026	+9.0%
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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Short Volume

On 25 Sep 2026, 56.2 percent of BALL's reported volume at the covered venues was marked short.

Figure	Value
Short sale share, 25 Sep	56.2%
Five day average	57.9%
52 week median	52.1%

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, BALL's average change was minus 1.7 percent, and it rose in 52.8 percent of them.

Month	Average change	Middle change	Share of years up	Years
September	-1.7%	+0.3%	52.8%	36
October	+0.7%	+1.4%	58.3%	36
November	+3.4%	+3.1%	77.8%	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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Questions

What is BALL's IV rank?: BALL's IV rank is 57 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.
What move are BALL options pricing?: On 28 Sep 2026, BALL options priced a move of 6.2 percent down and 6.1 percent up by 16 Oct 2026.
Where are BALL's call wall and put wall?: On 28 Sep 2026, BALL's call wall and put wall are both at the 60 strike.
What was the desk's latest view of BALL on the Free plan?: On 25 Sep 2026 the desk's view of BALL was neutral, paper trading.
When does BALL report earnings next?: BALL reports next on 3 Nov 2026, a date worked out from past quarters.

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