Information Technology

Datadog Inc (DDOG) options and signal

Figures as of 28 Sep 2026

DDOG is Datadog Inc, 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	Bear call spread, 18 Dec	25 Sep
IV rank	57 of 100	28 Sep
At the money IV	57.7%	28 Sep
Priced move to 30 Oct	16.4% down, 16.9% up	28 Sep
Call wall and put wall	260 and 240	28 Sep
Signal and the desk's view	Bearish signal, view bearish	25 Sep
Last close	268.70	28 Sep
Next report	5 Nov 2026	28 Sep

Trade Cards

On 25 Sep 2026 the Trade Card for DDOG 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 330 call, Buy the 380 call
Expiry	18 Dec 2026, 84 days to expiry
Limit	A credit of at least $7.80
Probability of profit	69%, the option market's odds at expiry, from delta
Max loss	$4,220 per contract
Max profit	$780 per contract
Breakeven	337.80
IV rank at that expiry	74 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

DDOG's IV rank is 57 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
IV rank	57 of 100
At the money IV	57.7%, near month, 32 days
Put/call ratio, open interest	0.64
Call open interest, strikes captured near the price	78,000 contracts
Put open interest, strikes captured near the price	50,200 contracts
Cost to trade at the money	Fair, 34.3% of the option's mid price

IV rank is where the at the money IV sits among DDOG'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, DDOG options priced a move of 16.4 percent down and 16.9 percent up by 30 Oct 2026.

Expiry	Days	Down	Up	Range
2 Oct 2026	4	6.2%	5.7%	252.00 to 283.90
9 Oct 2026	11	9.0%	10.0%	244.40 to 295.60
23 Oct 2026	25	16.7%	14.5%	223.70 to 307.60
30 Oct 2026	32	16.4%	16.9%	224.60 to 314.20
20 Nov 2026	53	25.5%	26.7%	200.10 to 340.50
18 Dec 2026	81	29.2%	30.7%	190.30 to 351.30
19 Mar 2027	172	40.6%	45.4%	159.70 to 390.70

The range is one standard deviation either side of the close of 268.70, 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, DDOG's call wall is the 260 strike and its put wall is the 240 strike.

Figure	Value
Call wall, most open call gamma	260
Put wall, most open put gamma	240
Net dollar gamma, calls minus puts	$15.1 million
Total dollar gamma, both sides	$39.89 million
Close	268.70

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 6 strikes, so no single flip strike is named.

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Volatility History

On 28 Sep 2026, DDOG's at the money IV is 57.7 percent against 20 day realized volatility of 54.5 percent.

Figure	Value
At the money IV	57.7%
Realized volatility, 20 trading days	54.5%
Realized volatility, 60 trading days	69.3%
IV against its own weekly record	In the middle
Weekly readings on record	349, from 29 Nov 2019
Weeks the price moved more than the one week priced move	32.5% 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, DDOG's at the money IV runs from 58.5 percent at 4 days to 62.6 percent at 172 days.

Days to expiry	At the money IV
4	58.5%
11	60.1%
18	55.4%
25	59.8%
39	71.4%
53	68.0%
81	62.7%
172	62.6%

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 32 day expiry, DDOG's IV ten percent below the price sits 0.4 points above at the money IV.

Strike area	Implied volatility	Against at the money
10% below the price	58.1%	+0.4 points
At the money	57.7%	0.0 points
10% above the price	59.2%	+1.5 points

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Volatility Surface

On 28 Sep 2026, DDOG's surface spans 10 expiries out to 172 days, with IV from 53.0 to 72.5 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	87
Lowest IV among them	53.0%
Highest IV among them	72.5%

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Expiry Ladder

On 28 Sep 2026, DDOG 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	58.5%	5,394	4,622
9 Oct 2026	11	60.1%	1,556	315
16 Oct 2026	18	55.4%	13,967	8,170
23 Oct 2026	25	59.8%	1,615	1,542
30 Oct 2026	32	57.7%	393	350
6 Nov 2026	39	71.4%	53	86
20 Nov 2026	53	68.0%	8,699	6,905
18 Dec 2026	81	62.7%	15,626	5,572
15 Jan 2027	109	60.0%	23,748	16,902
19 Mar 2027	172	62.6%	6,954	5,708

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

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Strike Table

On 28 Sep 2026, DDOG's largest open interest sits at the 220 strike, with 10,071 contracts across the captured expiries.

Strike	Call open interest	Put open interest	Total
220	4,842	5,229	10,071
240	4,071	3,509	7,580
230	2,891	4,320	7,211
250	4,321	2,701	7,022
165	3,530	3,275	6,805
200	1,791	3,686	5,477

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, DDOG's at the money IV moved from 60.4 percent to 57.7 percent.

Figure	25 Sep	28 Sep	Change
At the money IV	60.4%	57.7%	-2.7 points
Open interest, strikes captured near the price	122,992	128,177	+5,185
Put/call ratio, open interest	0.64	0.64	+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, 16,324 DDOG option contracts traded, 0.9 times its own recent average.

Figure	Value
Calls traded	7,373
Puts traded	8,951
Against its recent average	0.9 times
Busier than	9 of its last 20 trading days
Open interest, whole chain	175,297 contracts
Volume to open interest	0.09
Unusual volume flag	Yes, 2 contracts traded well above open interest
Largest flagged contract	The 275 call expiring 2 Oct, 390 traded against 156 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 DDOG'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	246.78	$2.52 million	250	240
21 Sep 2026	245.05	$7.08 million	240	230
28 Sep 2026	268.70	$15.1 million	260	240

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 DDOG was bearish, paper trading.

Figure	Value
Side	Bearish at 45 trading days, signal on
Level above the close	292.72, the swing high of 5 Aug 2026, a close past it runs against the view
Level below the close	257.96, the swing low of 14 Aug 2026
The chart	Sits against 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 DDOG sat at the 2nd percentile of the model's 45 trading day ranking, paper trading.

Timeframe	Percentile	Side
10 trading days	18 of 100	Bearish
20 trading days	5 of 100	Bearish
45 trading days	2 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, 3 of 3 timeframes put DDOG on the bearish side, paper trading.

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

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Signal History

On 25 Sep 2026 DDOG's bearish signal had held 3 trading days in a row, paper trading.

Trading day	Signal	45 day percentile
25 Sep 2026	Bearish	2 of 100
24 Sep 2026	Bearish	3 of 100
23 Sep 2026	Bearish	4 of 100
22 Sep 2026	None	6 of 100
21 Sep 2026	None	29 of 100
18 Sep 2026	None	58 of 100
17 Sep 2026	None	28 of 100
16 Sep 2026	None	8 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

DDOG closed at 268.70 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
Last close	268.70
Change over 5 trading days	+9.7%
Change over 21 trading days	+10.6%
Change over 63 trading days	+8.1%
Change over 252 trading days	+96.7%
52 week high	292.72
52 week low	98.01
20 day moving average	233.55
50 day moving average	242.90
200 day moving average	182.30
RSI, 14 days	67

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

DDOG reports next on 5 Nov 2026, a date worked out from past quarters.

Figure	Value
Next report	5 Nov 2026, before the open
Date	Worked out from past quarters
Move after the report of 6 Aug 2026	-19.0%
Move after the report of 7 May 2026	+31.3%
Move after the report of 10 Feb 2026	+13.7%
Move after the report of 6 Nov 2025	+23.1%

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

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Public Filings

Company insiders reported 0 purchases and 8 sales of DDOG in the filings the desk holds.

Filed	Who	Trade	Size
23 Sep 2026	Le-Quoc Alexis, director, Chief Technology Officer	Sold	645 shares, $160,739
23 Sep 2026	Le-Quoc Alexis, director, Chief Technology Officer	Sold	1,372 shares, $343,758
23 Sep 2026	Le-Quoc Alexis, director, Chief Technology Officer	Sold	22,007 shares, $5.53 million
23 Sep 2026	Le-Quoc Alexis, director, Chief Technology Officer	Sold	9,633 shares, $2.43 million
23 Sep 2026	Le-Quoc Alexis, director, Chief Technology Officer	Sold	5,347 shares, $1.35 million
23 Sep 2026	Le-Quoc Alexis, director, Chief Technology Officer	Sold	2,000 shares, $508,699

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, 58.2 percent of DDOG's reported volume at the covered venues was marked short.

Figure	Value
Short sale share, 25 Sep	58.2%
Five day average	63.8%
52 week median	49.6%

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 6 Septembers on record, DDOG's average change was plus 1.2 percent, and it rose in 50.0 percent of them.

Month	Average change	Middle change	Share of years up	Years
September	+1.2%	+0.8%	50.0%	6
October	+1.8%	-0.1%	50.0%	6
November	+13.5%	+9.0%	71.4%	7

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 5 headlines naming DDOG in the 3 days to 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
Headlines in the window	5
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 DDOG's IV rank?: DDOG's IV rank is 57 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.
What move are DDOG options pricing?: On 28 Sep 2026, DDOG options priced a move of 16.4 percent down and 16.9 percent up by 30 Oct 2026.
Where are DDOG's call wall and put wall?: On 28 Sep 2026, DDOG's call wall is the 260 strike and its put wall is the 240 strike.
What was the latest Trade Card for DDOG on the Free plan?: On 25 Sep 2026 the Trade Card for DDOG was a bear call spread expiring 18 Dec 2026, paper trading.
When does DDOG report earnings next?: DDOG reports next on 5 Nov 2026, a date worked out from past quarters.

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