Financials

Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB) options and signal

Figures as of 28 Sep 2026

FITB is Fifth Third Bancorp, a Financials 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	61 of 100	28 Sep
At the money IV	30.0%	28 Sep
Priced move to 16 Oct	7.0% down, 6.0% up	28 Sep
Call wall and put wall	Both 55	28 Sep
Signal and the desk's view	No signal, view bullish	25 Sep
Last close	51.57	28 Sep
Next report	19 Oct 2026	28 Sep

Options Snapshot

FITB's IV rank is 61 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
IV rank	61 of 100
At the money IV	30.0%, near month, 18 days
Put/call ratio, open interest	0.58
Call open interest, strikes captured near the price	20,100 contracts
Put open interest, strikes captured near the price	11,700 contracts
Cost to trade at the money	Fair, 40.0% of the option's mid price

IV rank is where the at the money IV sits among FITB'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, FITB options priced a move of 7.0 percent down and 6.0 percent up by 16 Oct 2026.

Expiry	Days	Down	Up	Range
16 Oct 2026	18	7.0%	6.0%	47.97 to 54.66
20 Nov 2026	53	13.1%	10.8%	44.84 to 57.16
18 Dec 2026	81	14.4%	13.3%	44.14 to 58.43
15 Jan 2027	109	16.1%	14.6%	43.26 to 59.11
19 Feb 2027	144	18.2%	16.9%	42.21 to 60.30
19 Mar 2027	172	20.0%	20.9%	41.27 to 62.37

The range is one standard deviation either side of the close of 51.57, 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, FITB's call wall and put wall are both at the 55 strike.

Figure	Value
Call wall, most open call gamma	55
Put wall, most open put gamma	55
Net dollar gamma, calls minus puts	$575,506
Total dollar gamma, both sides	$2.97 million
Close	51.57

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 4 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, FITB's at the money IV is 30.0 percent against 20 day realized volatility of 23.5 percent.

Figure	Value
At the money IV	30.0%
Realized volatility, 20 trading days	23.5%
Realized volatility, 60 trading days	21.6%
IV against its own weekly record	In the middle
Weekly readings on record	865, from 8 Jan 2010
Weeks the price moved more than the one week priced move	23.4% 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, FITB's at the money IV runs from 30.0 percent at 18 days to 29.5 percent at 172 days.

Days to expiry	At the money IV
18	30.0%
53	30.1%
81	28.6%
109	28.6%
144	28.3%
172	29.5%

Near and far expiries price about the same volatility, a flat 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, FITB's IV ten percent below the price sits 9.2 points above at the money IV.

Strike area	Implied volatility	Against at the money
10% below the price	39.3%	+9.2 points
At the money	30.1%	0.0 points
10% above the price	30.4%	+0.3 points

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Volatility Surface

On 28 Sep 2026, FITB's surface spans 6 expiries out to 172 days, with IV from 27.1 to 60.1 percent near the price.

Figure	Value
Expiries captured	6
Nearest expiry	16 Oct 2026, 18 days
Farthest expiry	19 Mar 2027, 172 days
Points within 10% of the price, 7 days out or more	19
Lowest IV among them	27.1%
Highest IV among them	60.1%

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Expiry Ladder

On 28 Sep 2026, FITB has 6 captured expiries, from 16 Oct 2026 to 19 Mar 2027.

Expiry	Days	At the money IV	Call open interest	Put open interest
16 Oct 2026	18	30.0%	3,325	1,947
20 Nov 2026	53	30.1%	3,468	1,626
18 Dec 2026	81	28.6%	2,367	1,416
15 Jan 2027	109	28.6%	8,398	4,968
19 Feb 2027	144	28.3%	938	86
19 Mar 2027	172	29.5%	1,629	1,684

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

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Strike Table

On 28 Sep 2026, FITB's largest open interest sits at the 60 strike, with 7,509 contracts across the captured expiries.

Strike	Call open interest	Put open interest	Total
60	7,012	497	7,509
55	3,924	2,519	6,443
50	2,262	2,130	4,392
45	1,125	2,403	3,528
65	2,981	1	2,982
40	470	1,734	2,204

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, FITB's at the money IV moved from 28.4 percent to 30.0 percent.

Figure	25 Sep	28 Sep	Change
At the money IV	28.4%	30.0%	+1.6 points
Open interest, strikes captured near the price	31,715	31,852	+137
Put/call ratio, open interest	0.59	0.58	-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, 2,794 FITB option contracts traded, 1.0 times its own recent average.

Figure	Value
Calls traded	1,860
Puts traded	934
Against its recent average	1.0 times
Busier than	4 of its last 20 trading days
Open interest, whole chain	36,448 contracts
Volume to open interest	0.08
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 FITB'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	57.60	$5.26 million	55	55
21 Sep 2026	53.31	$451,644	60	55
28 Sep 2026	51.57	$575,506	55	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 FITB was bullish, paper trading.

Figure	Value
Side	Bullish at 45 trading days, no signal
Level above the close	51.71, the swing high of 16 Sep 2026
Level below the close	50.78, the swing low of 24 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 FITB sat at the 92nd percentile of the model's 45 trading day ranking, paper trading.

Timeframe	Percentile	Side
10 trading days	79 of 100	Neutral
20 trading days	70 of 100	Neutral
45 trading days	92 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, 1 of 3 timeframes put FITB on the bullish side, paper trading.

Group	Timeframes	Side	On that side
Near	10 day, 20 day	Neutral	0 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 FITB had carried no signal for at least 18 trading days, paper trading.

Trading day	Signal	45 day percentile
25 Sep 2026	None	92 of 100
24 Sep 2026	None	93 of 100
23 Sep 2026	None	96 of 100
22 Sep 2026	None	96 of 100
21 Sep 2026	None	82 of 100
18 Sep 2026	None	84 of 100
17 Sep 2026	None	62 of 100
16 Sep 2026	None	88 of 100

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Sector Split

On 25 Sep 2026, 63 of 135 Financials names were bullish and 32 were bearish, paper trading.

Sector	Names	Bullish	Bearish	Neutral
Financials	135	63	32	40

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Price Chart

FITB closed at 51.57 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
Last close	51.57
Change over 5 trading days	-3.3%
Change over 21 trading days	-6.0%
Change over 63 trading days	-9.2%
Change over 252 trading days	+13.9%
52 week high	59.50
52 week low	40.05
20 day moving average	53.47
50 day moving average	55.39
200 day moving average	51.63
RSI, 14 days	35

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

FITB reports next on 19 Oct 2026, a date confirmed by the company.

Figure	Value
Next report	19 Oct 2026, before the open
Date	Confirmed by the company
Move after the report of 17 Jul 2026	-2.3%
Move after the report of 20 Apr 2026	+0.2%
Move after the report of 18 Jan 2026	+1.9%
Move after the report of 17 Apr 2025	-0.7%

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

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Company Events

FITB filed 3 current reports in the 14 days to 28 Sep 2026, the latest on 24 Sep 2026.

Filed	Report	What it covers
24 Sep 2026	Current report	Other Events
23 Sep 2026	Current report	Other Events
14 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 1 recent trade in FITB shares.

Filed	Who	Trade	Size
5 Sep 2026	. David J. Taylor, member of Congress	Bought	$1,001 to $15,000

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

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Short Volume

On 25 Sep 2026, 38.1 percent of FITB's reported volume at the covered venues was marked short.

Figure	Value
Short sale share, 25 Sep	38.1%
Five day average	60.5%
52 week median	66.1%

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 23 Septembers on record, FITB's average change was minus 2.3 percent, and it rose in 34.8 percent of them.

Month	Average change	Middle change	Share of years up	Years
September	-2.3%	-2.7%	34.8%	23
October	+1.6%	+2.6%	60.9%	23
November	+3.8%	+2.4%	73.9%	23

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 1 headline naming FITB in the 3 days to 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
Headlines in the window	1
Latest	27 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 FITB's IV rank?: FITB's IV rank is 61 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.
What move are FITB options pricing?: On 28 Sep 2026, FITB options priced a move of 7.0 percent down and 6.0 percent up by 16 Oct 2026.
Where are FITB's call wall and put wall?: On 28 Sep 2026, FITB's call wall and put wall are both at the 55 strike.
What was the desk's latest view of FITB on the Free plan?: On 25 Sep 2026 the desk's view of FITB was bullish, paper trading.
When does FITB report earnings next?: FITB reports next on 19 Oct 2026, a date confirmed by the company.

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