Information Technology

Gartner Inc (IT) options and signal

Figures as of 28 Sep 2026

IT is Gartner 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	96 of 100	28 Sep
At the money IV	53.0%	28 Sep
Priced move to 16 Oct	11.4% down, 12.0% up	28 Sep
Call wall and put wall	200 and 185	28 Sep
Signal and the desk's view	No signal, view neutral	25 Sep
Last close	185.73	28 Sep
Next report	3 Nov 2026	28 Sep

Options Snapshot

IT's IV rank is 96 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
IV rank	96 of 100
At the money IV	53.0%, near month, 18 days
Put/call ratio, open interest	0.75
Call open interest, strikes captured near the price	7,130 contracts
Put open interest, strikes captured near the price	5,380 contracts
Cost to trade at the money	Fair, 23.7% of the option's mid price

IV rank is where the at the money IV sits among IT'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, IT options priced a move of 11.4 percent down and 12.0 percent up by 16 Oct 2026.

Expiry	Days	Down	Up	Range
16 Oct 2026	18	11.4%	12.0%	164.63 to 207.93
20 Nov 2026	53	21.1%	21.2%	146.63 to 225.13
18 Dec 2026	81	24.0%	25.1%	141.23 to 232.33
19 Mar 2027	172	35.4%	37.0%	119.93 to 254.43

The range is one standard deviation either side of the close of 185.73, 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, IT's call wall is the 200 strike and its put wall is the 185 strike.

Figure	Value
Call wall, most open call gamma	200
Put wall, most open put gamma	185
Net dollar gamma, calls minus puts	$401,062
Total dollar gamma, both sides	$2.86 million
Close	185.73

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, IT's at the money IV is 53.0 percent against 20 day realized volatility of 60.8 percent.

Figure	Value
At the money IV	53.0%
Realized volatility, 20 trading days	60.8%
Realized volatility, 60 trading days	70.6%
IV against its own weekly record	High, in the top fifth
Weekly readings on record	854, from 8 Jan 2010
Weeks the price moved more than the one week priced move	24.6% of 252 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, IT's at the money IV runs from 53.0 percent at 18 days to 52.9 percent at 172 days.

Days to expiry	At the money IV
18	53.0%
53	56.2%
81	54.2%
172	52.9%

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 53 day expiry, IT's IV ten percent below the price sits 0.1 points below at the money IV.

Strike area	Implied volatility	Against at the money
10% below the price	56.1%	-0.1 points
At the money	56.2%	0.0 points
10% above the price	55.6%	-0.6 points

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Volatility Surface

On 28 Sep 2026, IT's surface spans 4 expiries out to 172 days, with IV from 51.4 to 57.2 percent near the price.

Figure	Value
Expiries captured	4
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	28
Lowest IV among them	51.4%
Highest IV among them	57.2%

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Expiry Ladder

On 28 Sep 2026, IT has 4 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	53.0%	459	1,119
20 Nov 2026	53	56.2%	196	73
18 Dec 2026	81	54.2%	4,969	3,078
19 Mar 2027	172	52.9%	1,506	1,110

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

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Strike Table

On 28 Sep 2026, IT's largest open interest sits at the 220 strike, with 1,041 contracts across the captured expiries.

Strike	Call open interest	Put open interest	Total
220	887	154	1,041
210	702	170	872
230	843	0	843
200	712	101	813
195	354	366	720
185	335	342	677

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Since Yesterday

From 25 Sep 2026 to 28 Sep 2026, IT's at the money IV moved from 53.3 percent to 53.0 percent.

Figure	25 Sep	28 Sep	Change
At the money IV	53.3%	53.0%	-0.3 points
Open interest, strikes captured near the price	12,250	12,510	+260
Put/call ratio, open interest	0.72	0.75	+0.03

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, 865 IT option contracts traded, 0.8 times its own recent average.

Figure	Value
Calls traded	379
Puts traded	486
Against its recent average	0.8 times
Busier than	0 of its last 20 trading days
Open interest, whole chain	13,032 contracts
Volume to open interest	0.07
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 IT'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	187.27	$1.96 million	190	190
21 Sep 2026	183.32	$6,192	200	185
28 Sep 2026	185.73	$401,062	200	185

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 IT was neutral, paper trading.

Figure	Value
Side	Neutral at 45 trading days, no signal
Level above the close	200.35, the swing high of 28 Aug 2026
Level below the close	176.04, the swing low of 24 Sep 2026
Strategy family	Iron condor (sell both sides, defined risk)
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 IT sat at the 23rd percentile of the model's 45 trading day ranking, paper trading.

Timeframe	Percentile	Side
10 trading days	51 of 100	Neutral
20 trading days	40 of 100	Neutral
45 trading days	23 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 IT'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 IT had carried no signal for at least 18 trading days, paper trading.

Trading day	Signal	45 day percentile
25 Sep 2026	None	23 of 100
24 Sep 2026	None	14 of 100
23 Sep 2026	None	31 of 100
22 Sep 2026	None	19 of 100
21 Sep 2026	None	26 of 100
18 Sep 2026	None	16 of 100
17 Sep 2026	None	38 of 100
16 Sep 2026	None	38 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

IT closed at 185.73 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
Last close	185.73
Change over 5 trading days	+1.3%
Change over 21 trading days	-5.5%
Change over 63 trading days	+39.9%
Change over 252 trading days	-29.2%
52 week high	265.85
52 week low	124.25
20 day moving average	185.03
50 day moving average	178.08
200 day moving average	174.06
RSI, 14 days	52

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

IT reports next on 3 Nov 2026, a date worked out from past quarters.

Figure	Value
Next report	3 Nov 2026, before the open
Date	Worked out from past quarters
Move after the report of 4 Aug 2026	+22.6%
Move after the report of 29 Jul 2026	-7.7%
Move after the report of 30 Apr 2026	-1.4%
Move after the report of 28 Jan 2026	-5.9%

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

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Short Volume

On 25 Sep 2026, 73.3 percent of IT's reported volume at the covered venues was marked short.

Figure	Value
Short sale share, 25 Sep	73.3%
Five day average	61.2%
52 week median	64.2%

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, IT's average change was plus 1.3 percent, and it rose in 52.2 percent of them.

Month	Average change	Middle change	Share of years up	Years
September	+1.3%	+2.6%	52.2%	23
October	+1.6%	+1.8%	60.9%	23
November	+4.3%	+3.1%	69.6%	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 2 headlines naming IT in the 3 days to 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
Headlines in the window	2
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 IT's IV rank?: IT's IV rank is 96 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.
What move are IT options pricing?: On 28 Sep 2026, IT options priced a move of 11.4 percent down and 12.0 percent up by 16 Oct 2026.
Where are IT's call wall and put wall?: On 28 Sep 2026, IT's call wall is the 200 strike and its put wall is the 185 strike.
What was the desk's latest view of IT on the Free plan?: On 25 Sep 2026 the desk's view of IT was neutral, paper trading.
When does IT report earnings next?: IT reports next on 3 Nov 2026, a date worked out from past quarters.

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