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Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (CHKP) options and signal

Figures as of 28 Sep 2026

CHKP is Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., 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
IV rank	100 of 100	28 Sep
At the money IV	46.8%	28 Sep
Priced move to 16 Oct	9.0% down, 11.5% up	28 Sep
Call wall and put wall	140 and 130	28 Sep
Signal and the desk's view	No signal, view neutral	25 Sep
Last close	129.27	28 Sep
Next report	4 Nov 2026	28 Sep

Options Snapshot

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

Figure	Value
IV rank	100 of 100
At the money IV	46.8%, near month, 18 days
Put/call ratio, open interest	0.61
Call open interest, strikes captured near the price	31,500 contracts
Put open interest, strikes captured near the price	19,200 contracts
Cost to trade at the money	Wide, 62.8% of the option's mid price

IV rank is where the at the money IV sits among CHKP'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, CHKP options priced a move of 9.0 percent down and 11.5 percent up by 16 Oct 2026.

Expiry	Days	Down	Up	Range
16 Oct 2026	18	9.0%	11.5%	117.67 to 144.17
20 Nov 2026	53	17.6%	20.2%	106.57 to 155.37
18 Dec 2026	81	21.4%	23.4%	101.57 to 159.47
15 Jan 2027	109	23.2%	25.9%	99.27 to 162.77
16 Apr 2027	200	31.1%	35.6%	89.07 to 175.27

The range is one standard deviation either side of the close of 129.27, 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, CHKP's call wall is the 140 strike and its put wall is the 130 strike.

Figure	Value
Call wall, most open call gamma	140
Put wall, most open put gamma	130
Net dollar gamma, calls minus puts	$1.45 million
Total dollar gamma, both sides	$11.09 million
Close	129.27

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, CHKP's at the money IV is 46.8 percent against 20 day realized volatility of 39.4 percent.

Figure	Value
At the money IV	46.8%
Realized volatility, 20 trading days	39.4%
Realized volatility, 60 trading days	41.2%
IV against its own weekly record	High, in the top fifth
Weekly readings on record	849, from 8 Jan 2010
Weeks the price moved more than the one week priced move	22.0% 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, CHKP's at the money IV runs from 46.8 percent at 18 days to 41.7 percent at 200 days.

Days to expiry	At the money IV
18	46.8%
53	50.3%
81	47.1%
109	45.0%
200	41.7%

Near expiries price more volatility than far ones, an inverted term structure.

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Volatility Smile

On 28 Sep 2026, at the 53 day expiry, CHKP's IV ten percent below the price sits 2.3 points above at the money IV.

Strike area	Implied volatility	Against at the money
10% below the price	52.6%	+2.3 points
At the money	50.3%	0.0 points
10% above the price	50.9%	+0.5 points

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Volatility Surface

On 28 Sep 2026, CHKP's surface spans 5 expiries out to 200 days, with IV from 41.7 to 51.1 percent near the price.

Figure	Value
Expiries captured	5
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	25
Lowest IV among them	41.7%
Highest IV among them	51.1%

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Expiry Ladder

On 28 Sep 2026, CHKP has 5 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	46.8%	12,585	4,865
20 Nov 2026	53	50.3%	141	252
18 Dec 2026	81	47.1%	13,106	8,907
15 Jan 2027	109	45.0%	5,583	5,031
16 Apr 2027	200	41.7%	63	145

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

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Strike Table

On 28 Sep 2026, CHKP's largest open interest sits at the 140 strike, with 12,830 contracts across the captured expiries.

Strike	Call open interest	Put open interest	Total
140	12,309	521	12,830
130	533	8,296	8,829
150	4,370	8	4,378
120	1,051	2,536	3,587
110	1,751	1,789	3,540
145	2,855	103	2,958

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Since Yesterday

From 25 Sep 2026 to 28 Sep 2026, CHKP's at the money IV moved from 44.1 percent to 46.8 percent.

Figure	25 Sep	28 Sep	Change
At the money IV	44.1%	46.8%	+2.6 points
Open interest, strikes captured near the price	50,069	50,678	+609
Put/call ratio, open interest	0.59	0.61	+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, 1,072 CHKP option contracts traded, 0.5 times its own recent average.

Figure	Value
Calls traded	646
Puts traded	426
Against its recent average	0.5 times
Busier than	0 of its last 20 trading days
Open interest, whole chain	51,712 contracts
Volume to open interest	0.02
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 33 trading days of CHKP'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	129.12	$595,755	140	130
21 Sep 2026	134.25	$1.81 million	140	130
28 Sep 2026	129.27	$1.45 million	140	130

Each frame restates one nightly capture. Net is calls minus puts, a convention, not who holds the contracts.

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Read-out

On 25 Sep 2026 the desk's view of CHKP was neutral, paper trading.

Figure	Value
Side	Neutral at 45 trading days, no signal
Level above the close	130.73, the swing high of 22 Sep 2026
Level below the close	128.49, the swing low of 11 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 CHKP sat at the 28th percentile of the model's 45 trading day ranking, paper trading.

Timeframe	Percentile	Side
10 trading days	41 of 100	Neutral
20 trading days	80 of 100	Neutral
45 trading days	28 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 CHKP'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 CHKP had carried no signal for at least 18 trading days, paper trading.

Trading day	Signal	45 day percentile
25 Sep 2026	None	28 of 100
24 Sep 2026	None	29 of 100
23 Sep 2026	None	13 of 100
22 Sep 2026	None	22 of 100
21 Sep 2026	None	13 of 100
18 Sep 2026	None	15 of 100
17 Sep 2026	None	24 of 100
16 Sep 2026	None	23 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, 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

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

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Price Chart

CHKP closed at 129.27 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
Last close	129.27
Change over 5 trading days	-3.7%
Change over 21 trading days	-3.0%
Change over 63 trading days	+0.4%
Change over 252 trading days	-36.5%
52 week high	210.66
52 week low	112.23
20 day moving average	135.20
50 day moving average	132.24
200 day moving average	146.85
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

CHKP reports next on 4 Nov 2026, a date worked out from past quarters.

Figure	Value
Next report	4 Nov 2026, before the open
Date	Worked out from past quarters
Move after the report of 30 Jul 2026	-8.2%
Move after the report of 30 Apr 2026	-19.6%
Move after the report of 12 Feb 2026	-6.8%
Move after the report of 28 Oct 2025	+6.2%

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

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Seasonality

In the 30 Septembers on record, CHKP's average change was plus 1.3 percent, and it rose in 63.3 percent of them.

Month	Average change	Middle change	Share of years up	Years
September	+1.3%	+1.5%	63.3%	30
October	+6.1%	+3.0%	73.3%	30
November	+3.1%	+3.2%	70.0%	30

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 CHKP's IV rank?: CHKP's IV rank is 100 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.
What move are CHKP options pricing?: On 28 Sep 2026, CHKP options priced a move of 9.0 percent down and 11.5 percent up by 16 Oct 2026.
Where are CHKP's call wall and put wall?: On 28 Sep 2026, CHKP's call wall is the 140 strike and its put wall is the 130 strike.
What was the desk's latest view of CHKP on the Free plan?: On 25 Sep 2026 the desk's view of CHKP was neutral, paper trading.
When does CHKP report earnings next?: CHKP reports next on 4 Nov 2026, a date worked out from past quarters.

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