Health Care

Cytokinetics, Incorporated (CYTK) options and signal

Figures as of 28 Sep 2026

CYTK is Cytokinetics, Incorporated, a Health Care 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	3 of 100	28 Sep
At the money IV	54.5%	28 Sep
Priced move to 16 Oct	12.1% down, 11.7% up	28 Sep
Call wall and put wall	80 and 70	28 Sep
Signal and the desk's view	No signal, view bullish	25 Sep
Last close	66.16	28 Sep
Next report	5 Nov 2026	28 Sep

Options Snapshot

CYTK's IV rank is 3 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
IV rank	3 of 100
At the money IV	54.5%, near month, 18 days
Put/call ratio, open interest	0.14
Call open interest, strikes captured near the price	42,400 contracts
Put open interest, strikes captured near the price	5,980 contracts
Cost to trade at the money	Wide, 89.1% of the option's mid price

IV rank is where the at the money IV sits among CYTK'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, CYTK options priced a move of 12.1 percent down and 11.7 percent up by 16 Oct 2026.

Expiry	Days	Down	Up	Range
16 Oct 2026	18	12.1%	11.7%	58.16 to 73.92
20 Nov 2026	53	22.8%	19.8%	51.06 to 79.26
15 Jan 2027	109	30.4%	31.3%	46.06 to 86.86
19 Feb 2027	144	36.3%	35.4%	42.16 to 89.56

The range is one standard deviation either side of the close of 66.16, 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, CYTK's call wall is the 80 strike and its put wall is the 70 strike.

Figure	Value
Call wall, most open call gamma	80
Put wall, most open put gamma	70
Net dollar gamma, calls minus puts	$2.33 million
Total dollar gamma, both sides	$3.51 million
Close	66.16

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, CYTK's at the money IV is 54.5 percent against 20 day realized volatility of 30.6 percent.

Figure	Value
At the money IV	54.5%
Realized volatility, 20 trading days	30.6%
Realized volatility, 60 trading days	34.0%
IV against its own weekly record	Low, in the bottom fifth
Weekly readings on record	750, from 8 Jan 2010
Weeks the price moved more than the one week priced move	13.1% 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, CYTK's at the money IV runs from 54.5 percent at 18 days to 57.8 percent at 144 days.

Days to expiry	At the money IV
18	54.5%
53	59.7%
109	55.6%
144	57.8%

Far expiries price more volatility than near ones, an upward sloping term structure.

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Volatility Smile

On 28 Sep 2026, at the 53 day expiry, CYTK's IV ten percent below the price sits 4.0 points below at the money IV.

Strike area	Implied volatility	Against at the money
10% below the price	55.7%	-4.0 points
At the money	59.7%	0.0 points
10% above the price	59.5%	-0.2 points

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Volatility Surface

On 28 Sep 2026, CYTK's surface spans 4 expiries out to 144 days, with IV from 51.4 to 72.1 percent near the price.

Figure	Value
Expiries captured	4
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	12
Lowest IV among them	51.4%
Highest IV among them	72.1%

From the option chain at the close on 28 Sep 2026. Current on every plan.

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Expiry Ladder

On 28 Sep 2026, CYTK has 4 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	54.5%	2,211	1,731
20 Nov 2026	53	59.7%	1,454	1,323
15 Jan 2027	109	55.6%	38,551	2,897
19 Feb 2027	144	57.8%	204	28

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

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Strike Table

On 28 Sep 2026, CYTK's largest open interest sits at the 80 strike, with 20,916 contracts across the captured expiries.

Strike	Call open interest	Put open interest	Total
80	19,901	1,015	20,916
40	5,915	83	5,998
90	5,116	87	5,203
75	2,881	900	3,781
70	2,225	1,280	3,505
85	1,769	362	2,131

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, CYTK's at the money IV moved from 48.4 percent to 54.5 percent.

Figure	25 Sep	28 Sep	Change
At the money IV	48.4%	54.5%	+6.0 points
Open interest, strikes captured near the price	48,278	48,399	+121
Put/call ratio, open interest	0.14	0.14	-0.00

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, 1,527 CYTK option contracts traded, 0.8 times its own recent average.

Figure	Value
Calls traded	1,306
Puts traded	221
Against its recent average	0.8 times
Busier than	1 of its last 20 trading days
Open interest, whole chain	50,557 contracts
Volume to open interest	0.03
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 CYTK'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	76.45	$3.35 million	80	80
21 Sep 2026	67.56	$1.57 million	80	70
28 Sep 2026	66.16	$2.33 million	80	70

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 CYTK was bullish, paper trading.

Figure	Value
Side	Bullish at 45 trading days, no signal
Level above the close	68.55, the swing high of 15 Sep 2026
Level below the close	64.30, the swing low of 28 Sep 2026, a close past it runs against the view
The chart	Sits against the view
Strategy family	Bull call spread (buy a call spread)
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 CYTK sat at the 84th percentile of the model's 45 trading day ranking, paper trading.

Timeframe	Percentile	Side
10 trading days	86 of 100	Bullish
20 trading days	88 of 100	Bullish
45 trading days	84 of 100	Bullish

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, 3 of 3 timeframes put CYTK 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

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 CYTK had carried no signal for at least 18 trading days, paper trading.

Trading day	Signal	45 day percentile
25 Sep 2026	None	84 of 100
24 Sep 2026	None	81 of 100
23 Sep 2026	None	89 of 100
22 Sep 2026	None	91 of 100
21 Sep 2026	None	86 of 100
18 Sep 2026	None	86 of 100
17 Sep 2026	None	82 of 100
16 Sep 2026	None	84 of 100

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Sector Split

On 25 Sep 2026, 32 of 120 Health Care names were bullish and 52 were bearish, paper trading.

Sector	Names	Bullish	Bearish	Neutral
Health Care	120	32	52	36

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Price Chart

CYTK closed at 66.16 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
Last close	66.16
Change over 5 trading days	-2.1%
Change over 21 trading days	-15.1%
Change over 63 trading days	-24.2%
Change over 252 trading days	+38.3%
52 week high	88.31
52 week low	47.87
20 day moving average	70.25
50 day moving average	74.86
200 day moving average	70.07
RSI, 14 days	34

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

CYTK reports next on 5 Nov 2026, a date confirmed by the company.

Figure	Value
Next report	5 Nov 2026, after the close
Date	Confirmed by the company
Move after the report of 6 Aug 2026	-5.7%
Move after the report of 5 May 2026	-2.9%
Move after the report of 28 Jan 2026	+0.7%
Move after the report of 28 Oct 2025	+0.0%

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

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Seasonality

In the 22 Septembers on record, CYTK's average change was plus 3.5 percent, and it rose in 45.5 percent of them.

Month	Average change	Middle change	Share of years up	Years
September	+3.5%	-2.8%	45.5%	22
October	-7.0%	-3.4%	31.8%	22
November	+2.0%	-0.1%	50.0%	22

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 CYTK's IV rank?: CYTK's IV rank is 3 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.
What move are CYTK options pricing?: On 28 Sep 2026, CYTK options priced a move of 12.1 percent down and 11.7 percent up by 16 Oct 2026.
Where are CYTK's call wall and put wall?: On 28 Sep 2026, CYTK's call wall is the 80 strike and its put wall is the 70 strike.
What was the desk's latest view of CYTK on the Free plan?: On 25 Sep 2026 the desk's view of CYTK was bullish, paper trading.
When does CYTK report earnings next?: CYTK reports next on 5 Nov 2026, a date confirmed by the company.

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