Industrials

Lockheed Martin Corp (LMT) options and signal

Figures as of 28 Sep 2026

LMT is Lockheed Martin Corp, an Industrials 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	Bear call spread, 18 Dec	25 Sep
IV rank	98 of 100	28 Sep
At the money IV	34.2%	28 Sep
Priced move to 30 Oct	9.5% down, 10.1% up	28 Sep
Call wall and put wall	550 and 500	28 Sep
Signal and the desk's view	No signal, view bearish	25 Sep
Last close	518.10	28 Sep
Next report	20 Oct 2026	28 Sep

Trade Cards

On 25 Sep 2026 the Trade Card for LMT was a bear call spread expiring 18 Dec 2026, paper trading.

Figure	Value
Signal	Neutral
Strategy	Bear call spread, credit
Legs	Sell the 565 call, Buy the 620 call
Expiry	18 Dec 2026, 84 days to expiry
Limit	A credit of at least $6.70
Probability of profit	71%, the option market's odds at expiry, from delta
Max loss	$4,830 per contract
Max profit	$670 per contract
Breakeven	571.70
IV rank at that expiry	92 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

LMT's IV rank is 98 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
IV rank	98 of 100
At the money IV	34.2%, near month, 32 days
Put/call ratio, open interest	1.13
Call open interest, strikes captured near the price	23,300 contracts
Put open interest, strikes captured near the price	26,400 contracts
Cost to trade at the money	Fair, 27.1% of the option's mid price

IV rank is where the at the money IV sits among LMT'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, LMT options priced a move of 9.5 percent down and 10.1 percent up by 30 Oct 2026.

Expiry	Days	Down	Up	Range
2 Oct 2026	4	3.0%	3.0%	502.70 to 533.60
9 Oct 2026	11	5.5%	4.8%	489.40 to 543.20
23 Oct 2026	25	8.2%	8.1%	475.50 to 560.20
30 Oct 2026	32	9.5%	10.1%	468.80 to 570.50
20 Nov 2026	53	11.4%	13.1%	459.10 to 586.20
18 Dec 2026	81	14.9%	15.0%	441.00 to 595.80
19 Mar 2027	172	20.7%	20.3%	411.10 to 623.10

The range is one standard deviation either side of the close of 518.10, 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, LMT's call wall is the 550 strike and its put wall is the 500 strike.

Figure	Value
Call wall, most open call gamma	550
Put wall, most open put gamma	500
Net dollar gamma, calls minus puts	minus $11.57 million
Total dollar gamma, both sides	$65.87 million
Close	518.10

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 8 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, LMT's at the money IV is 34.2 percent against 20 day realized volatility of 21.6 percent.

Figure	Value
At the money IV	34.2%
Realized volatility, 20 trading days	21.6%
Realized volatility, 60 trading days	30.9%
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	25.4% 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, LMT's at the money IV runs from 31.6 percent at 4 days to 28.9 percent at 172 days.

Days to expiry	At the money IV
4	31.6%
11	29.5%
18	33.1%
25	32.9%
39	36.1%
53	32.6%
81	31.0%
172	28.9%

Near expiries price more volatility than far ones, an inverted 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, LMT's IV ten percent below the price sits 2.2 points below at the money IV.

Strike area	Implied volatility	Against at the money
10% below the price	32.0%	-2.2 points
At the money	34.2%	0.0 points
10% above the price	37.2%	+2.9 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, LMT's surface spans 10 expiries out to 172 days, with IV from 26.5 to 57.1 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	179
Lowest IV among them	26.5%
Highest IV among them	57.1%

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Expiry Ladder

On 28 Sep 2026, LMT 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	31.6%	1,210	1,781
9 Oct 2026	11	29.5%	1,043	718
16 Oct 2026	18	33.1%	2,875	2,757
23 Oct 2026	25	32.9%	788	2,469
30 Oct 2026	32	34.2%	268	865
6 Nov 2026	39	36.1%	6	47
20 Nov 2026	53	32.6%	2,649	2,613
18 Dec 2026	81	31.0%	4,153	4,595
15 Jan 2027	109	29.1%	8,308	9,028
19 Mar 2027	172	28.9%	2,031	1,546

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

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Strike Table

On 28 Sep 2026, LMT's largest open interest sits at the 550 strike, with 3,420 contracts across the captured expiries.

Strike	Call open interest	Put open interest	Total
550	1,453	1,967	3,420
500	1,409	1,875	3,284
600	2,158	197	2,355
520	896	1,255	2,151
510	541	1,431	1,972
530	892	1,003	1,895

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, LMT's at the money IV moved from 31.6 percent to 34.2 percent.

Figure	25 Sep	28 Sep	Change
At the money IV	31.6%	34.2%	+2.6 points
Open interest, strikes captured near the price	48,346	49,750	+1,404
Put/call ratio, open interest	1.16	1.13	-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, 9,335 LMT option contracts traded, 0.9 times its own recent average.

Figure	Value
Calls traded	5,771
Puts traded	3,564
Against its recent average	0.9 times
Busier than	4 of its last 20 trading days
Open interest, whole chain	69,507 contracts
Volume to open interest	0.13
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.

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 LMT'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	597.77	$46.66 million	605	580
21 Sep 2026	535.40	minus $1.17 million	550	550
28 Sep 2026	518.10	minus $11.57 million	550	500

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 LMT was bearish, paper trading.

Figure	Value
Side	Bearish at 45 trading days, no signal
Level above the close	520.42, the swing high of 17 Sep 2026, a close past it runs against the view
Level below the close	515.60, the swing low of 22 Sep 2026
The chart	Sits with the view
Strategy family	Bear call spread (sell a call spread above 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 LMT sat at the 14th percentile of the model's 45 trading day ranking, paper trading.

Timeframe	Percentile	Side
10 trading days	21 of 100	Neutral
20 trading days	13 of 100	Bearish
45 trading days	14 of 100	Bearish

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, 2 of 3 timeframes put LMT on the bearish side, paper trading.

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

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Signal History

On 25 Sep 2026 LMT had carried no signal for at least 18 trading days, paper trading.

Trading day	Signal	45 day percentile
25 Sep 2026	None	14 of 100
24 Sep 2026	None	7 of 100
23 Sep 2026	None	6 of 100
22 Sep 2026	None	12 of 100
21 Sep 2026	None	9 of 100
18 Sep 2026	None	14 of 100
17 Sep 2026	None	19 of 100
16 Sep 2026	None	20 of 100

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Sector Split

On 25 Sep 2026, 51 of 147 Industrials names were bullish and 37 were bearish, paper trading.

Sector	Names	Bullish	Bearish	Neutral
Industrials	147	51	37	59

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Price Chart

LMT closed at 518.10 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
Last close	518.10
Change over 5 trading days	-3.2%
Change over 21 trading days	-8.4%
Change over 63 trading days	+3.2%
Change over 252 trading days	+7.0%
52 week high	692.00
52 week low	437.25
20 day moving average	531.29
50 day moving average	557.50
200 day moving average	562.26
RSI, 14 days	36

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

LMT reports next on 20 Oct 2026, a date worked out from past quarters.

Figure	Value
Next report	20 Oct 2026, before the open
Date	Worked out from past quarters
Move after the report of 23 Jul 2026	+10.5%
Move after the report of 23 Apr 2026	-4.6%
Move after the report of 29 Jan 2026	+4.2%
Move after the report of 21 Oct 2025	-3.2%

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

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Short Volume

On 25 Sep 2026, 65.5 percent of LMT's reported volume at the covered venues was marked short.

Figure	Value
Short sale share, 25 Sep	65.5%
Five day average	57.5%
52 week median	46.0%

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, LMT's average change was plus 1.6 percent, and it rose in 66.7 percent of them.

Month	Average change	Middle change	Share of years up	Years
September	+1.6%	+2.3%	66.7%	36
October	-0.5%	+0.4%	55.6%	36
November	+0.9%	+0.4%	55.6%	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 8 headlines naming LMT in the 3 days to 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
Headlines in the window	8
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 LMT's IV rank?: LMT's IV rank is 98 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.
What move are LMT options pricing?: On 28 Sep 2026, LMT options priced a move of 9.5 percent down and 10.1 percent up by 30 Oct 2026.
Where are LMT's call wall and put wall?: On 28 Sep 2026, LMT's call wall is the 550 strike and its put wall is the 500 strike.
What was the latest Trade Card for LMT on the Free plan?: On 25 Sep 2026 the Trade Card for LMT was a bear call spread expiring 18 Dec 2026, paper trading.
When does LMT report earnings next?: LMT reports next on 20 Oct 2026, a date worked out from past quarters.

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