Information Technology

Intel (INTC) options and signal

Figures as of 28 Sep 2026

INTC is Intel, 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	Long straddle, 30 Oct	25 Sep
IV rank	99 of 100	28 Sep
At the money IV	72.3%	28 Sep
Priced move to 30 Oct	20.7% down, 22.1% up	28 Sep
Call wall and put wall	120 and 110	28 Sep
Signal and the desk's view	No signal, view neutral	25 Sep
Last close	116.03	28 Sep
Next report	22 Oct 2026	28 Sep

Trade Cards

On 25 Sep 2026 the Trade Card for INTC was a long straddle expiring 30 Oct 2026, paper trading.

Figure	Value
Signal	Neutral
Strategy	Long straddle, debit
Legs	Buy the 116 call, Buy the 116 put
Expiry	30 Oct 2026, 35 days to expiry
Limit	A debit of at most $22.28
Probability of profit	39%, the option market's odds at expiry, from delta
Max loss	$2,228 per contract
Breakeven	93.72 and 138.28
IV rank at that expiry	99 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

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

Figure	Value
IV rank	99 of 100
At the money IV	72.3%, near month, 32 days
Put/call ratio, open interest	0.55
Call open interest, strikes captured near the price	1.08 million contracts
Put open interest, strikes captured near the price	595,000 contracts
Cost to trade at the money	Tight, 2.2% of the option's mid price

IV rank is where the at the money IV sits among INTC'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, INTC options priced a move of 20.7 percent down and 22.1 percent up by 30 Oct 2026.

Expiry	Days	Down	Up	Range
30 Sep 2026	2	4.4%	4.4%	110.90 to 121.19
2 Oct 2026	4	6.8%	7.0%	108.19 to 124.21
7 Oct 2026	9	9.4%	9.6%	105.13 to 127.13
16 Oct 2026	18	13.6%	14.3%	100.23 to 132.63
23 Oct 2026	25	18.1%	19.3%	95.03 to 138.43
30 Oct 2026	32	20.7%	22.1%	92.03 to 141.73
18 Dec 2026	81	29.9%	32.5%	81.33 to 153.73

The range is one standard deviation either side of the close of 116.03, 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, INTC's call wall is the 120 strike and its put wall is the 110 strike.

Figure	Value
Call wall, most open call gamma	120
Put wall, most open put gamma	110
Net dollar gamma, calls minus puts	$96.2 million
Total dollar gamma, both sides	$283.97 million
Close	116.03

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.

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, INTC's at the money IV is 72.3 percent against 20 day realized volatility of 73.5 percent.

Figure	Value
At the money IV	72.3%
Realized volatility, 20 trading days	73.5%
Realized volatility, 60 trading days	73.7%
IV against its own weekly record	High, in the top fifth
Weekly readings on record	865, from 8 Jan 2010
Weeks the price moved more than the one week priced move	33.7% 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, INTC's at the money IV runs from 58.0 percent at 2 days to 66.7 percent at 81 days.

Days to expiry	At the money IV
2	58.0%
4	64.9%
7	57.8%
11	63.4%
18	62.8%
32	72.3%
39	70.7%
81	66.7%

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, INTC's IV ten percent below the price sits 0.9 points below at the money IV.

Strike area	Implied volatility	Against at the money
10% below the price	71.3%	-0.9 points
At the money	72.3%	0.0 points
10% above the price	73.4%	+1.1 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, INTC's surface spans 11 expiries out to 81 days, with IV from 56.4 to 73.7 percent near the price.

Figure	Value
Expiries captured	11
Nearest expiry	30 Sep 2026, 2 days
Farthest expiry	18 Dec 2026, 81 days
Points within 10% of the price, 7 days out or more	169
Lowest IV among them	56.4%
Highest IV among them	73.7%

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Expiry Ladder

On 28 Sep 2026, INTC has 11 captured expiries, from 30 Sep 2026 to 18 Dec 2026.

Expiry	Days	At the money IV	Call open interest	Put open interest
30 Sep 2026	2	58.0%	31,827	16,185
2 Oct 2026	4	64.9%	108,812	52,807
5 Oct 2026	7	57.8%	3,927	3,678
7 Oct 2026	9	61.9%	1,013	658
9 Oct 2026	11	63.4%	30,214	22,365
16 Oct 2026	18	62.8%	213,210	92,740
23 Oct 2026	25	72.1%	19,366	13,623
30 Oct 2026	32	72.3%	32,133	13,540
6 Nov 2026	39	70.7%	958	1,934
18 Dec 2026	81	66.7%	260,278	181,858

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

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Strike Table

On 28 Sep 2026, INTC's largest open interest sits at the 70 strike, with 140,700 contracts across the captured expiries.

Strike	Call open interest	Put open interest	Total
70	106,800	33,900	140,700
110	91,674	45,830	137,504
130	127,640	8,816	136,456
120	94,223	25,863	120,086
100	51,338	54,723	106,061
125	69,152	16,156	85,308

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, INTC's at the money IV moved from 71.1 percent to 72.3 percent.

Figure	25 Sep	28 Sep	Change
At the money IV	71.1%	72.3%	+1.2 points
Open interest, strikes captured near the price	1.82 million	1.68 million	-144,101
Put/call ratio, open interest	0.49	0.55	+0.06

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, 751,232 INTC option contracts traded, 0.9 times its own recent average.

Figure	Value
Calls traded	483,482
Puts traded	267,750
Against its recent average	0.9 times
Busier than	16 of its last 20 trading days
Open interest, whole chain	4.87 million contracts
Volume to open interest	0.15
Unusual volume flag	Yes, 63 contracts traded well above open interest
Largest flagged contract	The 105 put expiring 16 Apr, 10,994 traded against 165 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 INTC'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	97.71	$14.01 million	100	95
21 Sep 2026	121.78	$155.87 million	110	100
28 Sep 2026	116.03	$96.2 million	120	110

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 INTC was neutral, paper trading.

Figure	Value
Side	Neutral at 45 trading days, no signal
Level above the close	124.73, the swing high of 21 Sep 2026
Level below the close	94.52, the swing low of 14 Sep 2026
Strategy family	Long straddle (buy a call and a put at the same strike)
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 INTC sat at the 22nd percentile of the model's 45 trading day ranking, paper trading.

Timeframe	Percentile	Side
10 trading days	74 of 100	Neutral
20 trading days	22 of 100	Neutral
45 trading days	22 of 100	Neutral

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 INTC's near timeframes were neutral and its long timeframe was neutral, paper trading.

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

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Signal History

On 25 Sep 2026 INTC had carried no signal for 2 trading days, paper trading.

Trading day	Signal	45 day percentile
25 Sep 2026	None	22 of 100
24 Sep 2026	None	15 of 100
23 Sep 2026	Bearish	3 of 100
22 Sep 2026	Bearish	2 of 100
21 Sep 2026	None	13 of 100
18 Sep 2026	None	20 of 100
17 Sep 2026	None	35 of 100
16 Sep 2026	None	13 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

INTC closed at 116.03 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
Last close	116.03
Change over 5 trading days	-4.7%
Change over 21 trading days	+26.0%
Change over 63 trading days	-11.9%
Change over 252 trading days	+241.4%
52 week high	142.35
52 week low	32.89
20 day moving average	105.87
50 day moving average	99.47
200 day moving average	79.58
RSI, 14 days	58

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

INTC reports next on 22 Oct 2026, a date worked out from past quarters.

Figure	Value
Next report	22 Oct 2026, after the close
Date	Worked out from past quarters
Move after the report of 23 Jul 2026	-7.9%
Move after the report of 23 Apr 2026	+23.6%
Move after the report of 22 Jan 2026	-17.0%
Move after the report of 23 Oct 2025	+0.3%

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

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Public Filings

2 of the 10 fund managers the desk tracks list INTC among the top holdings of their latest quarterly report.

Fund manager
Renaissance Technologies
Tiger Global

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, 59.8 percent of INTC's reported volume at the covered venues was marked short.

Figure	Value
Short sale share, 25 Sep	59.8%
Five day average	51.3%
52 week median	43.4%
Short interest, share of shares outstanding	3.1% at the 15 Sep 2026 settlement
Days to cover	1.8

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 36 Septembers on record, INTC's average change was minus 0.7 percent, and it rose in 50.0 percent of them.

Month	Average change	Middle change	Share of years up	Years
September	-0.7%	-0.0%	50.0%	36
October	+3.8%	+3.9%	63.9%	36
November	+4.0%	+1.6%	72.2%	36

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 6 headlines naming INTC in the 3 days to 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
Headlines in the window	6
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 INTC's IV rank?: INTC's IV rank is 99 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.
What move are INTC options pricing?: On 28 Sep 2026, INTC options priced a move of 20.7 percent down and 22.1 percent up by 30 Oct 2026.
Where are INTC's call wall and put wall?: On 28 Sep 2026, INTC's call wall is the 120 strike and its put wall is the 110 strike.
What was the latest Trade Card for INTC on the Free plan?: On 25 Sep 2026 the Trade Card for INTC was a long straddle expiring 30 Oct 2026, paper trading.
When does INTC report earnings next?: INTC reports next on 22 Oct 2026, a date worked out from past quarters.

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