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Cognex Corporation (CGNX) options and signal

Figures as of 28 Sep 2026

CGNX is Cognex Corporation, an Information Technology 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
Trade Card	Cash-secured put, 19 Feb	25 Sep
IV rank	84 of 100	28 Sep
At the money IV	64.7%	28 Sep
Priced move to 16 Oct	10.7% down, 13.7% up	28 Sep
Call wall and put wall	60 and 55	28 Sep
Signal and the desk's view	Bullish signal, view bullish	25 Sep
Last close	58.75	28 Sep
Next report	28 Oct 2026	28 Sep

Trade Cards

On 25 Sep 2026 the Trade Card for CGNX was a cash-secured put expiring 19 Feb 2027, paper trading.

Figure	Value
Signal	Bullish, over 45 trading days
Strategy	Cash-secured put, credit
Legs	Sell the 55 put
Expiry	19 Feb 2027, 147 days to expiry
Limit	A credit of at least $5.40
Probability of profit	64%, the option market's odds at expiry, from delta
Max loss	$4,960 per contract
Max profit	$540 per contract
Breakeven	49.60
IV rank at that expiry	68 of 100

Probability of profit is the option market's own odds from delta, not the model's.

Priced on the option chain at the close on 25 Sep 2026.

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

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Options Snapshot

CGNX's IV rank is 84 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
IV rank	84 of 100
At the money IV	64.7%, near month, 18 days
Put/call ratio, open interest	0.47
Call open interest, strikes captured near the price	9,380 contracts
Put open interest, strikes captured near the price	4,390 contracts
Cost to trade at the money	Wide, 118.8% of the option's mid price

IV rank is where the at the money IV sits among CGNX'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, CGNX options priced a move of 10.7 percent down and 13.7 percent up by 16 Oct 2026.

Expiry	Days	Down	Up	Range
16 Oct 2026	18	10.7%	13.7%	52.48 to 66.81
20 Nov 2026	53	21.3%	22.8%	46.25 to 72.15
19 Feb 2027	144	33.0%	36.6%	39.35 to 80.25

The range is one standard deviation either side of the close of 58.75, 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, CGNX's call wall is the 60 strike and its put wall is the 55 strike.

Figure	Value
Call wall, most open call gamma	60
Put wall, most open put gamma	55
Flip strike, where net gamma changes sign	58.34
Net dollar gamma, calls minus puts	$247,756
Total dollar gamma, both sides	$1.01 million
Close	58.75

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, CGNX's at the money IV is 64.7 percent against 20 day realized volatility of 38.7 percent.

Figure	Value
At the money IV	64.7%
Realized volatility, 20 trading days	38.7%
Realized volatility, 60 trading days	49.5%
IV against its own weekly record	High, in the top fifth
Weekly readings on record	815, from 8 Jan 2010
Weeks the price moved more than the one week priced move	18.7% of 219 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, CGNX's at the money IV runs from 64.7 percent at 18 days to 54.2 percent at 144 days.

Days to expiry	At the money IV
18	64.7%
53	57.2%
144	54.2%

Near expiries price more volatility than far ones, an inverted 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, CGNX's IV ten percent below the price sits 2.0 points above at the money IV.

Strike area	Implied volatility	Against at the money
10% below the price	59.3%	+2.0 points
At the money	57.2%	0.0 points
10% above the price	53.9%	-3.4 points

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Volatility Surface

On 28 Sep 2026, CGNX's surface spans 3 expiries out to 144 days, with IV from 52.0 to 70.2 percent near the price.

Figure	Value
Expiries captured	3
Nearest expiry	16 Oct 2026, 18 days
Farthest expiry	19 Feb 2027, 144 days
Points within 10% of the price, 7 days out or more	6
Lowest IV among them	52.0%
Highest IV among them	70.2%

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Expiry Ladder

On 28 Sep 2026, CGNX has 3 captured expiries, from 16 Oct 2026 to 19 Feb 2027.

Expiry	Days	At the money IV	Call open interest	Put open interest
16 Oct 2026	18	64.7%	1,082	1,564
20 Nov 2026	53	57.2%	6,505	2,240
19 Feb 2027	144	54.2%	1,795	590

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

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Strike Table

On 28 Sep 2026, CGNX's largest open interest sits at the 60 strike, with 1,963 contracts across the captured expiries.

Strike	Call open interest	Put open interest	Total
60	1,172	791	1,963
75	1,883	69	1,952
80	1,786	4	1,790
50	458	1,254	1,712
70	1,139	174	1,313
65	762	377	1,139

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, CGNX's at the money IV moved from 60.5 percent to 64.7 percent.

Figure	25 Sep	28 Sep	Change
At the money IV	60.5%	64.7%	+4.2 points
Open interest, strikes captured near the price	13,354	13,776	+422
Put/call ratio, open interest	0.49	0.47	-0.02

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, 594 CGNX option contracts traded, 0.6 times its own recent average.

Figure	Value
Calls traded	325
Puts traded	269
Against its recent average	0.6 times
Busier than	2 of its last 20 trading days
Open interest, whole chain	13,843 contracts
Volume to open interest	0.04
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 CGNX'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	62.90	$137,622	65	60
21 Sep 2026	61.99	$71,460	60	60
28 Sep 2026	58.75	$247,756	60	55

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 CGNX was bullish, paper trading.

Figure	Value
Side	Bullish at 45 trading days, signal on
Level above the close	63.39, the swing high of 22 Sep 2026
Level below the close	57.80, the swing low of 15 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 CGNX sat at the 100th percentile of the model's 45 trading day ranking, paper trading.

Timeframe	Percentile	Side
10 trading days	98 of 100	Bullish
20 trading days	100 of 100	Bullish
45 trading days	100 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, 3 of 3 timeframes put CGNX on the bullish side, paper trading.

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

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Signal History

On 25 Sep 2026 CGNX's bullish signal had held 2 trading days in a row, paper trading.

Trading day	Signal	45 day percentile
25 Sep 2026	Bullish	100 of 100
24 Sep 2026	Bullish	98 of 100
23 Sep 2026	None	95 of 100
22 Sep 2026	None	90 of 100
21 Sep 2026	None	82 of 100
18 Sep 2026	None	66 of 100
17 Sep 2026	None	85 of 100
16 Sep 2026	None	86 of 100

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Sector Split

On 25 Sep 2026, 80 of 187 Information Technology names were bullish and 61 were bearish, paper trading.

Sector	Names	Bullish	Bearish	Neutral
Information Technology	187	80	61	46

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Price Chart

CGNX closed at 58.75 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
Last close	58.75
Change over 5 trading days	-5.2%
Change over 21 trading days	-6.7%
Change over 63 trading days	-14.1%
Change over 252 trading days	+30.9%
52 week high	72.88
52 week low	34.60
20 day moving average	60.49
50 day moving average	62.09
200 day moving average	55.25
RSI, 14 days	44

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

CGNX reports next on 28 Oct 2026, a date confirmed by the company.

Figure	Value
Next report	28 Oct 2026, after the close
Date	Confirmed by the company
Move after the report of 5 Aug 2026	-4.7%
Move after the report of 6 May 2026	+5.9%
Move after the report of 11 Feb 2026	+36.4%
Move after the report of 29 Oct 2025	-12.9%

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

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Company Events

CGNX filed 1 current report in the 14 days to 28 Sep 2026, the latest on 22 Sep 2026.

Filed	Report	What it covers
22 Sep 2026	Current report	Regulation FD Disclosure; Other Events

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

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Seasonality

In the 36 Septembers on record, CGNX's average change was minus 1.0 percent, and it rose in 36.1 percent of them.

Month	Average change	Middle change	Share of years up	Years
September	-1.0%	-1.9%	36.1%	36
October	+0.9%	-1.2%	38.9%	36
November	+3.2%	+3.8%	66.7%	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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The Desk Analyst

The Free plan shows the first paragraph of The Desk Analyst's column on CGNX for 25 Sep 2026, quoted below.

The close is 58.66, which is 6.4% above the 200-day simple moving average of 55.15.

The price is below the 5-day (59.1), 20-day (60.58), 50-day (62.2), and 100-day (63.6) moving averages.

Paper trading. Column for 25 Sep 2026, general commentary published the same way to every reader.

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Questions

What is CGNX's IV rank?: CGNX's IV rank is 84 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.
What move are CGNX options pricing?: On 28 Sep 2026, CGNX options priced a move of 10.7 percent down and 13.7 percent up by 16 Oct 2026.
Where are CGNX's call wall and put wall?: On 28 Sep 2026, CGNX's call wall is the 60 strike and its put wall is the 55 strike.
What was the latest Trade Card for CGNX on the Free plan?: On 25 Sep 2026 the Trade Card for CGNX was a cash-secured put expiring 19 Feb 2027, paper trading.
When does CGNX report earnings next?: CGNX reports next on 28 Oct 2026, a date confirmed by the company.

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