Information Technology

MKS Inc. (MKSI) options and signal

Figures as of 28 Sep 2026

MKSI is MKS 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	73 of 100	28 Sep
At the money IV	53.4%	28 Sep
Priced move to 16 Oct	11.3% down, 11.7% up	28 Sep
Call wall and put wall	280 and 230	28 Sep
Signal and the desk's view	No signal, view bullish	25 Sep
Last close	258.38	28 Sep
Next report	4 Nov 2026	28 Sep

Options Snapshot

MKSI's IV rank is 73 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
IV rank	73 of 100
At the money IV	53.4%, near month, 18 days
Put/call ratio, open interest	0.49
Call open interest, strikes captured near the price	8,900 contracts
Put open interest, strikes captured near the price	4,320 contracts
Cost to trade at the money	Fair, 18.1% of the option's mid price

IV rank is where the at the money IV sits among MKSI'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, MKSI options priced a move of 11.3 percent down and 11.7 percent up by 16 Oct 2026.

Expiry	Days	Down	Up	Range
16 Oct 2026	18	11.3%	11.7%	229.08 to 288.68
20 Nov 2026	53	23.3%	24.1%	198.28 to 320.58
18 Dec 2026	81	27.3%	28.8%	187.78 to 332.88
15 Jan 2027	109	29.9%	32.9%	181.08 to 343.28
19 Feb 2027	144	35.8%	39.1%	165.98 to 359.38
16 Apr 2027	200	41.4%	42.2%	151.38 to 367.38

The range is one standard deviation either side of the close of 258.38, 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, MKSI's call wall is the 280 strike and its put wall is the 230 strike.

Figure	Value
Call wall, most open call gamma	280
Put wall, most open put gamma	230
Net dollar gamma, calls minus puts	$1.71 million
Total dollar gamma, both sides	$4.73 million
Close	258.38

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.

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Volatility History

On 28 Sep 2026, MKSI's at the money IV is 53.4 percent against 20 day realized volatility of 54.9 percent.

Figure	Value
At the money IV	53.4%
Realized volatility, 20 trading days	54.9%
Realized volatility, 60 trading days	67.9%
IV against its own weekly record	In the middle
Weekly readings on record	802, from 8 Jan 2010
Weeks the price moved more than the one week priced move	33.9% of 236 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, MKSI's at the money IV runs from 53.4 percent at 18 days to 57.2 percent at 200 days.

Days to expiry	At the money IV
18	53.4%
53	61.6%
81	59.1%
109	50.9%
144	59.3%
200	57.2%

Far expiries price more volatility than near ones, an upward sloping term structure.

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Volatility Smile

On 28 Sep 2026, at the 53 day expiry, MKSI's IV ten percent below the price sits 1.5 points above at the money IV.

Strike area	Implied volatility	Against at the money
10% below the price	63.1%	+1.5 points
At the money	61.6%	0.0 points
10% above the price	60.2%	-1.4 points

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Volatility Surface

On 28 Sep 2026, MKSI's surface spans 6 expiries out to 200 days, with IV from 3.1 to 73.4 percent near the price.

Figure	Value
Expiries captured	6
Nearest expiry	16 Oct 2026, 18 days
Farthest expiry	16 Apr 2027, 200 days
Points within 10% of the price, 7 days out or more	27
Lowest IV among them	3.1%
Highest IV among them	73.4%

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Expiry Ladder

On 28 Sep 2026, MKSI has 6 captured expiries, from 16 Oct 2026 to 16 Apr 2027.

Expiry	Days	At the money IV	Call open interest	Put open interest
16 Oct 2026	18	53.4%	4,030	2,743
20 Nov 2026	53	61.6%	1,013	357
18 Dec 2026	81	59.1%	2,340	924
15 Jan 2027	109	50.9%	424	139
19 Feb 2027	144	59.3%	1,086	125
16 Apr 2027	200	57.2%	10	31

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

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Strike Table

On 28 Sep 2026, MKSI's largest open interest sits at the 280 strike, with 1,211 contracts across the captured expiries.

Strike	Call open interest	Put open interest	Total
280	1,018	193	1,211
340	1,004	2	1,006
320	692	170	862
230	127	712	839
490	831	0	831
270	406	421	827

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Since Yesterday

From 25 Sep 2026 to 28 Sep 2026, MKSI's at the money IV moved from 52.7 percent to 53.4 percent.

Figure	25 Sep	28 Sep	Change
At the money IV	52.7%	53.4%	+0.6 points
Open interest, strikes captured near the price	13,165	13,222	+57
Put/call ratio, open interest	0.47	0.49	+0.01

Open interest changes cannot identify buyers or sellers.

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Changed Hands

On 28 Sep 2026, 2,205 MKSI option contracts traded, 1.0 times its own recent average.

Figure	Value
Calls traded	1,318
Puts traded	887
Against its recent average	1.0 times
Busier than	2 of its last 20 trading days
Open interest, whole chain	16,230 contracts
Volume to open interest	0.14
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 MKSI'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	294.38	minus $1.18 million	320	300
21 Sep 2026	256.92	$1.02 million	280	230
28 Sep 2026	258.38	$1.71 million	280	230

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 MKSI was bullish, paper trading.

Figure	Value
Side	Bullish at 45 trading days, no signal
Level above the close	263.78, the swing high of 23 Sep 2026
Level below the close	241.51, the swing low of 3 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 MKSI sat at the 66th percentile of the model's 45 trading day ranking, paper trading.

Timeframe	Percentile	Side
10 trading days	91 of 100	Bullish
20 trading days	42 of 100	Neutral
45 trading days	66 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, 1 of 3 timeframes put MKSI on the bullish side, paper trading.

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

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Signal History

On 25 Sep 2026 MKSI had carried no signal for 6 trading days, paper trading.

Trading day	Signal	45 day percentile
25 Sep 2026	None	66 of 100
24 Sep 2026	None	77 of 100
23 Sep 2026	None	18 of 100
22 Sep 2026	None	37 of 100
21 Sep 2026	None	79 of 100
18 Sep 2026	None	74 of 100
17 Sep 2026	Bullish	96 of 100
16 Sep 2026	None	90 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

MKSI closed at 258.38 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
Last close	258.38
Change over 5 trading days	+0.6%
Change over 21 trading days	-4.7%
Change over 63 trading days	-37.9%
Change over 252 trading days	+111.4%
52 week high	447.62
52 week low	120.12
20 day moving average	254.11
50 day moving average	281.46
200 day moving average	269.89
RSI, 14 days	47

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

MKSI reports next on 4 Nov 2026, a date worked out from past quarters.

Figure	Value
Next report	4 Nov 2026, after the close
Date	Worked out from past quarters
Move after the report of 5 Aug 2026	-7.0%
Move after the report of 30 Apr 2026	-1.5%
Move after the report of 28 Jan 2026	+3.3%
Move after the report of 7 May 2025	+4.0%

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

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Seasonality

In the 23 Septembers on record, MKSI's average change was minus 1.9 percent, and it rose in 39.1 percent of them.

Month	Average change	Middle change	Share of years up	Years
September	-1.9%	-2.8%	39.1%	23
October	+3.6%	+5.1%	60.9%	23
November	+2.9%	+1.4%	65.2%	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 1 headline naming MKSI in the 3 days to 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
Headlines in the window	1
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 MKSI's IV rank?: MKSI's IV rank is 73 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.
What move are MKSI options pricing?: On 28 Sep 2026, MKSI options priced a move of 11.3 percent down and 11.7 percent up by 16 Oct 2026.
Where are MKSI's call wall and put wall?: On 28 Sep 2026, MKSI's call wall is the 280 strike and its put wall is the 230 strike.
What was the desk's latest view of MKSI on the Free plan?: On 25 Sep 2026 the desk's view of MKSI was bullish, paper trading.
When does MKSI report earnings next?: MKSI reports next on 4 Nov 2026, a date worked out from past quarters.

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