Communication Services

Charter Communications Inc (CHTR) options and signal

Figures as of 28 Sep 2026

CHTR is Charter Communications Inc, a Communication Services 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	Bear call spread, 18 Dec	25 Sep
IV rank	100 of 100	28 Sep
At the money IV	68.5%	28 Sep
Priced move to 30 Oct	18.0% down, 21.3% up	28 Sep
Call wall and put wall	130 and 115	28 Sep
Signal and the desk's view	Bearish signal, view bearish	25 Sep
Last close	111.40	28 Sep
Next report	30 Oct 2026	28 Sep

Trade Cards

On 25 Sep 2026 the Trade Card for CHTR was a bear call spread expiring 18 Dec 2026, paper trading.

Figure	Value
Signal	Bearish, over 45 trading days
Strategy	Bear call spread, credit
Legs	Sell the 135 call, Buy the 210 call
Expiry	18 Dec 2026, 84 days to expiry
Limit	A credit of at least $4.18
Probability of profit	69%, the option market's odds at expiry, from delta
Max loss	$7,082 per contract
Max profit	$418 per contract
Breakeven	139.18
IV rank at that expiry	100 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

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

Figure	Value
IV rank	100 of 100
At the money IV	68.5%, near month, 32 days
Put/call ratio, open interest	1.41
Call open interest, strikes captured near the price	33,700 contracts
Put open interest, strikes captured near the price	47,600 contracts
Cost to trade at the money	Wide, 58.5% of the option's mid price

IV rank is where the at the money IV sits among CHTR'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, CHTR options priced a move of 18.0 percent down and 21.3 percent up by 30 Oct 2026.

Expiry	Days	Down	Up	Range
2 Oct 2026	4	5.8%	5.8%	104.93 to 117.83
9 Oct 2026	11	11.8%	9.4%	98.20 to 121.90
23 Oct 2026	25	17.4%	13.6%	92.00 to 126.60
30 Oct 2026	32	18.0%	21.3%	91.40 to 135.10
20 Nov 2026	53	25.0%	23.3%	83.60 to 137.40
18 Dec 2026	81	31.1%	29.5%	76.70 to 144.30
19 Mar 2027	172	40.4%	46.3%	66.40 to 163.00

The range is one standard deviation either side of the close of 111.40, 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, CHTR's call wall is the 130 strike and its put wall is the 115 strike.

Figure	Value
Call wall, most open call gamma	130
Put wall, most open put gamma	115
Net dollar gamma, calls minus puts	minus $3.12 million
Total dollar gamma, both sides	$10.88 million
Close	111.40

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 7 strikes, so no single flip strike is named.

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Volatility History

On 28 Sep 2026, CHTR's at the money IV is 68.5 percent against 20 day realized volatility of 61.9 percent.

Figure	Value
At the money IV	68.5%
Realized volatility, 20 trading days	61.9%
Realized volatility, 60 trading days	55.2%
IV against its own weekly record	High, in the top fifth
Weekly readings on record	782, from 29 Jul 2011
Weeks the price moved more than the one week priced move	28.2% 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, CHTR's at the money IV runs from 70.9 percent at 4 days to 66.0 percent at 172 days.

Days to expiry	At the money IV
4	70.9%
11	71.4%
18	53.0%
25	57.9%
39	71.5%
53	63.2%
81	63.3%
172	66.0%

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 32 day expiry, CHTR's IV ten percent below the price sits 5.4 points below at the money IV.

Strike area	Implied volatility	Against at the money
10% below the price	63.1%	-5.4 points
At the money	68.5%	0.0 points
10% above the price	62.4%	-6.1 points

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Volatility Surface

On 28 Sep 2026, CHTR's surface spans 10 expiries out to 172 days, with IV from 50.4 to 260.5 percent near the price.

Figure	Value
Expiries captured	10
Nearest expiry	2 Oct 2026, 4 days
Farthest expiry	19 Mar 2027, 172 days
Points within 10% of the price, 7 days out or more	78
Lowest IV among them	50.4%
Highest IV among them	260.5%

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Expiry Ladder

On 28 Sep 2026, CHTR has 10 captured expiries, from 2 Oct 2026 to 19 Mar 2027.

Expiry	Days	At the money IV	Call open interest	Put open interest
2 Oct 2026	4	70.9%	982	1,322
9 Oct 2026	11	71.4%	410	723
16 Oct 2026	18	53.0%	5,238	10,330
23 Oct 2026	25	57.9%	594	1,862
30 Oct 2026	32	68.5%	225	611
6 Nov 2026	39	71.5%	9	88
20 Nov 2026	53	63.2%	6,945	6,414
18 Dec 2026	81	63.3%	4,040	4,178
15 Jan 2027	109	66.1%	12,592	19,489
19 Mar 2027	172	66.0%	2,710	2,577

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

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Strike Table

On 28 Sep 2026, CHTR's largest open interest sits at the 200 strike, with 10,982 contracts across the captured expiries.

Strike	Call open interest	Put open interest	Total
200	4,032	6,950	10,982
120	3,327	4,707	8,034
130	3,963	3,015	6,978
115	215	6,074	6,289
140	1,420	3,348	4,768
150	3,644	1,010	4,654

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, CHTR's at the money IV moved from 57.4 percent to 68.5 percent.

Figure	25 Sep	28 Sep	Change
At the money IV	57.4%	68.5%	+11.1 points
Open interest, strikes captured near the price	81,891	81,339	-552
Put/call ratio, open interest	1.52	1.41	-0.11

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, 11,606 CHTR option contracts traded, 0.9 times its own recent average.

Figure	Value
Calls traded	6,643
Puts traded	4,963
Against its recent average	0.9 times
Busier than	15 of its last 20 trading days
Open interest, whole chain	124,262 contracts
Volume to open interest	0.09
Unusual volume flag	Yes, 1 contract traded well above open interest
Largest flagged contract	The 160 put expiring 16 Oct, 567 traded against 209 open

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 CHTR'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	157.69	$7.63 million	160	150
21 Sep 2026	123.35	minus $4.72 million	130	115
28 Sep 2026	111.40	minus $3.12 million	130	115

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 CHTR was bearish, paper trading.

Figure	Value
Side	Bearish at 45 trading days, signal on
Level above the close	133.33, the swing high of 9 Sep 2026, a close past it runs against the view
Level below the close	110.35, the swing low of 28 Sep 2026
The chart	Sits with the view
Strategy family	Bear call spread (sell a call spread above 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 CHTR sat at the 4th percentile of the model's 45 trading day ranking, paper trading.

Timeframe	Percentile	Side
10 trading days	25 of 100	Neutral
20 trading days	52 of 100	Neutral
45 trading days	4 of 100	Bearish

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, 1 of 3 timeframes put CHTR on the bearish side, paper trading.

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

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Signal History

On 25 Sep 2026 CHTR's bearish signal began that trading day, paper trading.

Trading day	Signal	45 day percentile
25 Sep 2026	Bearish	4 of 100
24 Sep 2026	None	6 of 100
23 Sep 2026	None	9 of 100
22 Sep 2026	None	17 of 100
21 Sep 2026	None	58 of 100
18 Sep 2026	None	63 of 100
17 Sep 2026	None	39 of 100
16 Sep 2026	None	8 of 100

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Sector Split

On 25 Sep 2026, 10 of 37 Communication Services names were bullish and 12 were bearish, paper trading.

Sector	Names	Bullish	Bearish	Neutral
Communication Services	37	10	12	15

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Price Chart

CHTR closed at 111.40 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
Last close	111.40
Change over 5 trading days	-9.7%
Change over 21 trading days	-24.9%
Change over 63 trading days	-23.8%
Change over 252 trading days	-58.8%
52 week high	285.82
52 week low	110.35
20 day moving average	135.36
50 day moving average	141.67
200 day moving average	176.89
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

CHTR reports next on 30 Oct 2026, a date worked out from past quarters.

Figure	Value
Next report	30 Oct 2026, before the open
Date	Worked out from past quarters
Move after the report of 24 Jul 2026	-2.5%
Move after the report of 24 Apr 2026	-25.5%
Move after the report of 30 Jan 2026	+7.6%
Move after the report of 31 Oct 2025	+1.3%

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

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Company Events

CHTR filed 1 current report in the 14 days to 28 Sep 2026, the latest on 15 Sep 2026.

Filed	Report	What it covers
15 Sep 2026	Current report	Regulation FD Disclosure

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

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Public Filings

The filings the desk holds carry 2 recent trades in CHTR shares.

Filed	Who	Trade	Size
14 Sep 2026	. August Lee Pfluger, member of Congress	Exchanged	$1,001 to $15,000
14 Sep 2026	. August Lee Pfluger, member of Congress	Exchanged	$1,001 to $15,000

Every filing is reproduced as filed, and each one reaches the public days or weeks after the trade.

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

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Short Volume

On 25 Sep 2026, 71.3 percent of CHTR's reported volume at the covered venues was marked short.

Figure	Value
Short sale share, 25 Sep	71.3%
Five day average	66.8%
52 week median	66.2%

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 16 Septembers on record, CHTR's average change was minus 2.9 percent, and it rose in 43.8 percent of them.

Month	Average change	Middle change	Share of years up	Years
September	-2.9%	-3.3%	43.8%	16
October	-0.1%	-1.1%	37.5%	16
November	+2.7%	+1.8%	62.5%	16

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 4 headlines naming CHTR in the 3 days to 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
Headlines in the window	4
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 CHTR's IV rank?: CHTR's IV rank is 100 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.
What move are CHTR options pricing?: On 28 Sep 2026, CHTR options priced a move of 18.0 percent down and 21.3 percent up by 30 Oct 2026.
Where are CHTR's call wall and put wall?: On 28 Sep 2026, CHTR's call wall is the 130 strike and its put wall is the 115 strike.
What was the latest Trade Card for CHTR on the Free plan?: On 25 Sep 2026 the Trade Card for CHTR was a bear call spread expiring 18 Dec 2026, paper trading.
When does CHTR report earnings next?: CHTR reports next on 30 Oct 2026, a date worked out from past quarters.

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