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IonQ, Inc. (IONQ) options and signal

Figures as of 28 Sep 2026

IONQ is IonQ, 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
IV rank	11 of 100	28 Sep
At the money IV	73.2%	28 Sep
Priced move to 30 Oct	19.0% down, 22.1% up	28 Sep
Call wall and put wall	45 and 40	28 Sep
Signal and the desk's view	No signal, view neutral	25 Sep
Last close	44.58	28 Sep
Next report	4 Nov 2026	28 Sep

Options Snapshot

IONQ's IV rank is 11 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
IV rank	11 of 100
At the money IV	73.2%, near month, 32 days
Put/call ratio, open interest	0.63
Call open interest, strikes captured near the price	211,000 contracts
Put open interest, strikes captured near the price	132,000 contracts
Cost to trade at the money	Fair, 18.3% of the option's mid price

IV rank is where the at the money IV sits among IONQ'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, IONQ options priced a move of 19.0 percent down and 22.1 percent up by 30 Oct 2026.

Expiry	Days	Down	Up	Range
2 Oct 2026	4	7.6%	8.3%	41.20 to 48.28
9 Oct 2026	11	12.4%	12.6%	39.05 to 50.19
23 Oct 2026	25	17.2%	18.7%	36.92 to 52.91
30 Oct 2026	32	19.0%	22.1%	36.13 to 54.42
20 Nov 2026	53	29.6%	29.6%	31.38 to 57.78
18 Dec 2026	81	35.4%	35.4%	28.78 to 60.38
19 Mar 2027	172	51.8%	51.8%	21.48 to 67.68

The range is one standard deviation either side of the close of 44.58, as the option prices imply it.

A priced move restates option prices at the close and says nothing certain about where the price goes.

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Gamma Map

On 28 Sep 2026, IONQ's call wall is the 45 strike and its put wall is the 40 strike.

Figure	Value
Call wall, most open call gamma	45
Put wall, most open put gamma	40
Net dollar gamma, calls minus puts	$6.21 million
Total dollar gamma, both sides	$20.89 million
Close	44.58

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.

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Volatility History

On 28 Sep 2026, IONQ's at the money IV is 73.2 percent against 20 day realized volatility of 56.4 percent.

Figure	Value
At the money IV	73.2%
Realized volatility, 20 trading days	56.4%
Realized volatility, 60 trading days	77.6%
IV against its own weekly record	Low, in the bottom fifth
Weekly readings on record	230, from 29 Oct 2021
Weeks the price moved more than the one week priced move	26.6% of 229 weeks

Realized volatility is worked out from the daily closes the desk holds, not from the option chain.

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Volatility Weather

On 28 Sep 2026, IONQ's at the money IV runs from 75.5 percent at 4 days to 75.4 percent at 172 days.

Days to expiry	At the money IV
4	75.5%
11	71.5%
18	70.8%
25	73.0%
39	77.4%
53	77.7%
81	75.2%
172	75.4%

Near and far expiries price about the same volatility, a flat term structure.

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Volatility Smile

On 28 Sep 2026, at the 32 day expiry, IONQ's IV ten percent below the price sits 1.3 points below at the money IV.

Strike area	Implied volatility	Against at the money
10% below the price	71.8%	-1.3 points
At the money	73.2%	0.0 points
10% above the price	73.8%	+0.6 points

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Volatility Surface

On 28 Sep 2026, IONQ's surface spans 10 expiries out to 172 days, with IV from 3.1 to 89.0 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	57
Lowest IV among them	3.1%
Highest IV among them	89.0%

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Expiry Ladder

On 28 Sep 2026, IONQ 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	75.5%	26,604	12,103
9 Oct 2026	11	71.5%	10,365	2,722
16 Oct 2026	18	70.8%	28,158	32,864
23 Oct 2026	25	73.0%	5,990	3,785
30 Oct 2026	32	73.2%	4,012	2,126
6 Nov 2026	39	77.4%	451	89
20 Nov 2026	53	77.7%	42,223	20,440
18 Dec 2026	81	75.2%	32,745	34,884
15 Jan 2027	109	73.5%	44,100	15,797
19 Mar 2027	172	75.4%	15,930	6,698

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

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Strike Table

On 28 Sep 2026, IONQ's largest open interest sits at the 40 strike, with 53,677 contracts across the captured expiries.

Strike	Call open interest	Put open interest	Total
40	15,951	37,726	53,677
45	36,516	12,098	48,614
50	41,585	7,009	48,594
60	21,776	2,586	24,362
35	1,587	22,211	23,798
30	4,004	15,150	19,154

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Since Yesterday

From 25 Sep 2026 to 28 Sep 2026, IONQ's at the money IV moved from 68.8 percent to 73.2 percent.

Figure	25 Sep	28 Sep	Change
At the money IV	68.8%	73.2%	+4.4 points
Open interest, strikes captured near the price	340,700	342,086	+1,386
Put/call ratio, open interest	0.63	0.62	-0.00

Open interest changes cannot identify buyers or sellers.

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Changed Hands

On 28 Sep 2026, 84,909 IONQ option contracts traded, 0.9 times its own recent average.

Figure	Value
Calls traded	56,186
Puts traded	28,723
Against its recent average	0.9 times
Busier than	16 of its last 20 trading days
Open interest, whole chain	534,752 contracts
Volume to open interest	0.16
Unusual volume flag	Yes, 13 contracts traded well above open interest
Largest flagged contract	The 47 call expiring 2 Oct, 3,185 traded against 1,007 open

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 IONQ'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	43.44	$2.71 million	45	40
21 Sep 2026	40.51	$499,093	45	40
28 Sep 2026	44.58	$6.21 million	45	40

Each frame restates one nightly capture. Net is calls minus puts, a convention, not who holds the contracts.

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Read-out

On 25 Sep 2026 the desk's view of IONQ was neutral, paper trading.

Figure	Value
Side	Neutral at 45 trading days, no signal
Level above the close	54.84, the swing high of 30 Jun 2026
Level below the close	40.94, the swing low of 18 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 IONQ sat at the 38th percentile of the model's 45 trading day ranking, paper trading.

Timeframe	Percentile	Side
10 trading days	15 of 100	Bearish
20 trading days	51 of 100	Neutral
45 trading days	38 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 IONQ's near timeframes were bearish and its long timeframe was neutral, paper trading.

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

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Signal History

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

Trading day	Signal	45 day percentile
25 Sep 2026	None	38 of 100
24 Sep 2026	None	30 of 100
23 Sep 2026	Bearish	4 of 100
22 Sep 2026	None	25 of 100
21 Sep 2026	None	65 of 100
18 Sep 2026	None	64 of 100
17 Sep 2026	None	49 of 100
16 Sep 2026	None	62 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

IONQ closed at 44.58 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
Last close	44.58
Change over 5 trading days	+10.0%
Change over 21 trading days	+5.0%
Change over 63 trading days	-17.3%
Change over 252 trading days	-35.8%
52 week high	84.64
52 week low	25.89
20 day moving average	39.76
50 day moving average	39.86
200 day moving average	43.58
RSI, 14 days	60

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

IONQ reports next on 4 Nov 2026, a date confirmed by the company.

Figure	Value
Next report	4 Nov 2026, after the close
Date	Confirmed by the company
Move after the report of 5 Aug 2026	-0.5%
Move after the report of 30 Apr 2026	+2.4%
Move after the report of 28 Jan 2026	-5.6%
Move after the report of 7 May 2025	+9.3%

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

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Seasonality

In the 5 Septembers on record, IONQ's average change was plus 7.5 percent, and it rose in 60.0 percent of them.

Month	Average change	Middle change	Share of years up	Years
September	+7.5%	+4.1%	60.0%	5
October	+19.8%	+16.2%	80.0%	5
November	+39.0%	+26.9%	60.0%	5

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 IONQ 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 IONQ's IV rank?: IONQ's IV rank is 11 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.
What move are IONQ options pricing?: On 28 Sep 2026, IONQ options priced a move of 19.0 percent down and 22.1 percent up by 30 Oct 2026.
Where are IONQ's call wall and put wall?: On 28 Sep 2026, IONQ's call wall is the 45 strike and its put wall is the 40 strike.
What was the desk's latest view of IONQ on the Free plan?: On 25 Sep 2026 the desk's view of IONQ was neutral, paper trading.
When does IONQ report earnings next?: IONQ reports next on 4 Nov 2026, a date confirmed by the company.

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