Financials

Interactive Brokers Group Inc (IBKR) options and signal

Figures as of 28 Sep 2026

IBKR is Interactive Brokers Group Inc, 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
Trade Card	Cash-secured put, 18 Dec	25 Sep
IV rank	99 of 100	28 Sep
At the money IV	54.2%	28 Sep
Priced move to 30 Oct	13.4% down, 16.5% up	28 Sep
Call wall and put wall	90 and 85	28 Sep
Signal and the desk's view	Bullish signal, view bullish	25 Sep
Last close	87.08	28 Sep
Next report	15 Oct 2026	28 Sep

Trade Cards

On 25 Sep 2026 the Trade Card for IBKR was a cash-secured put expiring 18 Dec 2026, paper trading.

Figure	Value
Signal	Bullish, over 45 trading days
Strategy	Cash-secured put, credit
Legs	Sell the 80 put
Expiry	18 Dec 2026, 84 days to expiry
Limit	A credit of at least $2.60
Probability of profit	69%, the option market's odds at expiry, from delta
Max loss	$7,740 per contract
Max profit	$260 per contract
Breakeven	77.40
IV rank at that expiry	89 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

IBKR's IV rank is 99 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
IV rank	99 of 100
At the money IV	54.2%, near month, 32 days
Put/call ratio, open interest	0.71
Call open interest, strikes captured near the price	50,400 contracts
Put open interest, strikes captured near the price	36,000 contracts
Cost to trade at the money	Wide, 63.9% of the option's mid price

IV rank is where the at the money IV sits among IBKR'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, IBKR options priced a move of 13.4 percent down and 16.5 percent up by 30 Oct 2026.

Expiry	Days	Down	Up	Range
2 Oct 2026	4	4.3%	4.2%	83.31 to 90.77
9 Oct 2026	11	7.2%	6.9%	80.85 to 93.05
23 Oct 2026	25	12.7%	11.7%	75.98 to 97.28
30 Oct 2026	32	13.4%	16.5%	75.38 to 101.48
20 Nov 2026	53	15.5%	16.1%	73.58 to 101.08
18 Dec 2026	81	18.3%	19.6%	71.18 to 104.18
19 Mar 2027	172	28.6%	33.8%	62.18 to 116.48

The range is one standard deviation either side of the close of 87.08, 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, IBKR's call wall is the 90 strike and its put wall is the 85 strike.

Figure	Value
Call wall, most open call gamma	90
Put wall, most open put gamma	85
Net dollar gamma, calls minus puts	minus $482,122
Total dollar gamma, both sides	$14.12 million
Close	87.08

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 5 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, IBKR's at the money IV is 54.2 percent against 20 day realized volatility of 40.2 percent.

Figure	Value
At the money IV	54.2%
Realized volatility, 20 trading days	40.2%
Realized volatility, 60 trading days	40.4%
IV against its own weekly record	High, in the top fifth
Weekly readings on record	851, from 8 Jan 2010
Weeks the price moved more than the one week priced move	29.8% 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, IBKR's at the money IV runs from 44.7 percent at 4 days to 47.3 percent at 172 days.

Days to expiry	At the money IV
4	44.7%
11	41.6%
18	55.8%
25	56.6%
39	51.1%
53	42.4%
81	41.2%
172	47.3%

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, IBKR's IV ten percent below the price sits 1.7 points below at the money IV.

Strike area	Implied volatility	Against at the money
10% below the price	52.4%	-1.7 points
At the money	54.2%	0.0 points
10% above the price	55.7%	+1.5 points

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

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Volatility Surface

On 28 Sep 2026, IBKR's surface spans 10 expiries out to 172 days, with IV from 38.8 to 65.8 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	88
Lowest IV among them	38.8%
Highest IV among them	65.8%

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Expiry Ladder

On 28 Sep 2026, IBKR 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	44.7%	1,522	2,987
9 Oct 2026	11	41.6%	5,908	2,386
16 Oct 2026	18	55.8%	4,969	9,606
23 Oct 2026	25	56.6%	622	494
30 Oct 2026	32	54.2%	169	288
6 Nov 2026	39	51.1%	4	4
20 Nov 2026	53	42.4%	1,666	679
18 Dec 2026	81	41.2%	15,289	6,764
15 Jan 2027	109	40.6%	14,652	11,375
19 Mar 2027	172	47.3%	5,551	1,374

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

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

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Strike Table

On 28 Sep 2026, IBKR's largest open interest sits at the 90 strike, with 15,598 contracts across the captured expiries.

Strike	Call open interest	Put open interest	Total
90	11,424	4,174	15,598
95	7,758	630	8,388
85	1,788	4,105	5,893
101	5,162	0	5,162
100	3,768	961	4,729
80	1,568	2,790	4,358

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, IBKR's at the money IV moved from 58.0 percent to 54.2 percent.

Figure	25 Sep	28 Sep	Change
At the money IV	58.0%	54.2%	-3.8 points
Open interest, strikes captured near the price	84,265	86,309	+2,044
Put/call ratio, open interest	0.69	0.71	+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, 7,244 IBKR option contracts traded, 0.7 times its own recent average.

Figure	Value
Calls traded	3,506
Puts traded	3,738
Against its recent average	0.7 times
Busier than	8 of its last 20 trading days
Open interest, whole chain	128,080 contracts
Volume to open interest	0.06
Unusual volume flag	Yes, 1 contract traded well above open interest
Largest flagged contract	The 100 call expiring 20 Nov, 409 traded against 200 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 IBKR'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	89.78	$1.82 million	90	85
21 Sep 2026	93.21	$2.57 million	90	90
28 Sep 2026	87.08	minus $482,122	90	85

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 IBKR was bullish, paper trading.

Figure	Value
Side	Bullish at 45 trading days, signal on
Level above the close	88.74, the swing high of 10 Sep 2026
Level below the close	84.96, the swing low of 16 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 IBKR sat at the 96th percentile of the model's 45 trading day ranking, paper trading.

Timeframe	Percentile	Side
10 trading days	94 of 100	Bullish
20 trading days	95 of 100	Bullish
45 trading days	96 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 IBKR 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

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Signal History

On 25 Sep 2026 IBKR's bullish signal began that trading day, paper trading.

Trading day	Signal	45 day percentile
25 Sep 2026	Bullish	96 of 100
24 Sep 2026	None	91 of 100
23 Sep 2026	None	84 of 100
22 Sep 2026	None	87 of 100
21 Sep 2026	None	89 of 100
18 Sep 2026	None	93 of 100
17 Sep 2026	Bullish	96 of 100
16 Sep 2026	Bullish	97 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

IBKR closed at 87.08 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
Last close	87.08
Change over 5 trading days	-6.6%
Change over 21 trading days	-9.8%
Change over 63 trading days	-1.3%
Change over 252 trading days	+34.0%
52 week high	98.75
52 week low	58.95
20 day moving average	90.63
50 day moving average	91.16
200 day moving average	80.85
RSI, 14 days	42

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

IBKR reports next on 15 Oct 2026, a date confirmed by the company.

Figure	Value
Next report	15 Oct 2026, after the close
Date	Confirmed by the company
Move after the report of 21 Jul 2026	-1.0%
Move after the report of 22 Apr 2026	-2.8%
Move after the report of 20 Jan 2026	+6.0%
Move after the report of 15 Apr 2025	-8.9%

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

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Short Volume

On 25 Sep 2026, 39.2 percent of IBKR's reported volume at the covered venues was marked short.

Figure	Value
Short sale share, 25 Sep	39.2%
Five day average	47.2%
52 week median	43.5%

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 19 Septembers on record, IBKR's average change was plus 0.8 percent, and it rose in 52.6 percent of them.

Month	Average change	Middle change	Share of years up	Years
September	+0.8%	+1.4%	52.6%	19
October	+3.1%	+3.5%	63.2%	19
November	+4.7%	+5.4%	73.7%	19

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 IBKR 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 IBKR's IV rank?: IBKR's IV rank is 99 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.
What move are IBKR options pricing?: On 28 Sep 2026, IBKR options priced a move of 13.4 percent down and 16.5 percent up by 30 Oct 2026.
Where are IBKR's call wall and put wall?: On 28 Sep 2026, IBKR's call wall is the 90 strike and its put wall is the 85 strike.
What was the latest Trade Card for IBKR on the Free plan?: On 25 Sep 2026 the Trade Card for IBKR was a cash-secured put expiring 18 Dec 2026, paper trading.
When does IBKR report earnings next?: IBKR reports next on 15 Oct 2026, a date confirmed by the company.

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