Financials

The Carlyle Group Inc. (CG) options and signal

Figures as of 28 Sep 2026

CG is The Carlyle Group Inc., a Financials 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	70 of 100	28 Sep
At the money IV	45.7%	28 Sep
Priced move to 16 Oct	9.9% down, 11.5% up	28 Sep
Call wall and put wall	45 and 40	28 Sep
Signal and the desk's view	No signal, view neutral	25 Sep
Last close	39.52	28 Sep
Next report	29 Oct 2026	28 Sep

Options Snapshot

CG's IV rank is 70 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
IV rank	70 of 100
At the money IV	45.7%, near month, 18 days
Put/call ratio, open interest	1.23
Call open interest, strikes captured near the price	35,400 contracts
Put open interest, strikes captured near the price	43,700 contracts
Cost to trade at the money	Wide, 42.6% of the option's mid price

IV rank is where the at the money IV sits among CG'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, CG options priced a move of 9.9 percent down and 11.5 percent up by 16 Oct 2026.

Expiry	Days	Down	Up	Range
16 Oct 2026	18	9.9%	11.5%	35.62 to 44.08
20 Nov 2026	53	19.1%	18.9%	31.99 to 46.99
18 Dec 2026	81	24.2%	22.2%	29.97 to 48.30
15 Jan 2027	109	25.6%	24.5%	29.42 to 49.20
19 Mar 2027	172	30.4%	30.4%	27.52 to 51.52

The range is one standard deviation either side of the close of 39.52, 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, CG's call wall is the 45 strike and its put wall is the 40 strike.

Figure	Value
Call wall, most open call gamma	45
Put wall, most open put gamma	40
Net dollar gamma, calls minus puts	minus $1.68 million
Total dollar gamma, both sides	$4.74 million
Close	39.52

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 History

On 28 Sep 2026, CG's at the money IV is 45.7 percent against 20 day realized volatility of 27.4 percent.

Figure	Value
At the money IV	45.7%
Realized volatility, 20 trading days	27.4%
Realized volatility, 60 trading days	35.6%
IV against its own weekly record	In the middle
Weekly readings on record	687, from 18 May 2012
Weeks the price moved more than the one week priced move	32.2% 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, CG's at the money IV runs from 45.7 percent at 18 days to 47.8 percent at 172 days.

Days to expiry	At the money IV
18	45.7%
53	51.0%
81	47.5%
109	47.5%
172	47.8%

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, CG's IV ten percent below the price sits 0.8 points below at the money IV.

Strike area	Implied volatility	Against at the money
10% below the price	50.2%	-0.8 points
At the money	51.0%	0.0 points
10% above the price	51.9%	+0.9 points

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Volatility Surface

On 28 Sep 2026, CG's surface spans 5 expiries out to 172 days, with IV from 44.4 to 57.0 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	15
Lowest IV among them	44.4%
Highest IV among them	57.0%

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Expiry Ladder

On 28 Sep 2026, CG 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	45.7%	5,093	8,748
20 Nov 2026	53	51.0%	3,322	6,134
18 Dec 2026	81	47.5%	4,955	16,259
15 Jan 2027	109	47.5%	20,068	11,722
19 Mar 2027	172	47.8%	1,921	868

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, CG's largest open interest sits at the 40 strike, with 18,903 contracts across the captured expiries.

Strike	Call open interest	Put open interest	Total
40	839	18,064	18,903
55	7,850	1,600	9,450
47.5	4,408	4,719	9,127
45	6,248	1,545	7,793
37.5	23	7,234	7,257
42.5	2,282	4,483	6,765

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, CG's at the money IV moved from 46.6 percent to 45.7 percent.

Figure	25 Sep	28 Sep	Change
At the money IV	46.6%	45.7%	-0.9 points
Open interest, strikes captured near the price	79,816	79,090	-726
Put/call ratio, open interest	1.22	1.24	+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, 4,365 CG option contracts traded, 0.9 times its own recent average.

Figure	Value
Calls traded	1,758
Puts traded	2,607
Against its recent average	0.9 times
Busier than	8 of its last 20 trading days
Open interest, whole chain	81,991 contracts
Volume to open interest	0.05
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 CG'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	48.36	$47.82 million	47.5	40
21 Sep 2026	40.86	minus $2.06 million	45	40
28 Sep 2026	39.52	minus $1.68 million	45	40

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 CG was neutral, paper trading.

Figure	Value
Side	Neutral at 45 trading days, no signal
Level above the close	41.44, the swing high of 22 Sep 2026
Level below the close	39.16, the swing low of 16 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 CG sat at the 49th percentile of the model's 45 trading day ranking, paper trading.

Timeframe	Percentile	Side
10 trading days	45 of 100	Neutral
20 trading days	72 of 100	Neutral
45 trading days	49 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 CG'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 CG had carried no signal for at least 18 trading days, paper trading.

Trading day	Signal	45 day percentile
25 Sep 2026	None	49 of 100
24 Sep 2026	None	53 of 100
23 Sep 2026	None	76 of 100
22 Sep 2026	None	82 of 100
21 Sep 2026	None	75 of 100
18 Sep 2026	None	76 of 100
17 Sep 2026	None	53 of 100
16 Sep 2026	None	81 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, 63 of 135 Financials names were bullish and 32 were bearish, paper trading.

Sector	Names	Bullish	Bearish	Neutral
Financials	135	63	32	40

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Price Chart

CG closed at 39.52 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
Last close	39.52
Change over 5 trading days	-3.3%
Change over 21 trading days	-19.7%
Change over 63 trading days	-2.5%
Change over 252 trading days	-37.9%
52 week high	67.30
52 week low	38.72
20 day moving average	42.79
50 day moving average	45.76
200 day moving average	49.96
RSI, 14 days	30

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

CG reports next on 29 Oct 2026, a date worked out from past quarters.

Figure	Value
Next report	29 Oct 2026, after the close
Date	Worked out from past quarters
Move after the report of 4 Aug 2026	-1.6%
Move after the report of 30 Apr 2026	-1.3%
Move after the report of 6 Feb 2026	+6.0%
Move after the report of 28 Oct 2025	-0.2%

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

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Seasonality

In the 14 Septembers on record, CG's average change was minus 2.8 percent, and it rose in 35.7 percent of them.

Month	Average change	Middle change	Share of years up	Years
September	-2.8%	-2.8%	35.7%	14
October	+2.4%	+0.3%	50.0%	14
November	+3.3%	+2.7%	64.3%	14

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 CG 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 CG's IV rank?: CG's IV rank is 70 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.
What move are CG options pricing?: On 28 Sep 2026, CG options priced a move of 9.9 percent down and 11.5 percent up by 16 Oct 2026.
Where are CG's call wall and put wall?: On 28 Sep 2026, CG's call wall is the 45 strike and its put wall is the 40 strike.
What was the desk's latest view of CG on the Free plan?: On 25 Sep 2026 the desk's view of CG was neutral, paper trading.
When does CG report earnings next?: CG reports next on 29 Oct 2026, a date worked out from past quarters.

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