Health Care

Mettler-Toledo International Inc (MTD) options and signal

Figures as of 28 Sep 2026

MTD is Mettler-Toledo International Inc, a Health Care 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	92 of 100	28 Sep
At the money IV	34.2%	28 Sep
Priced move to 16 Oct	8.3% down, 7.4% up	28 Sep
Call wall and put wall	Both 1,500	28 Sep
Signal and the desk's view	No signal, view bearish	25 Sep
Last close	1,545.26	28 Sep
Next report	5 Nov 2026	28 Sep

Options Snapshot

MTD's IV rank is 92 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
IV rank	92 of 100
At the money IV	34.2%, near month, 18 days
Put/call ratio, open interest	0.18
Call open interest, strikes captured near the price	2,180 contracts
Put open interest, strikes captured near the price	385 contracts
Cost to trade at the money	Fair, 16.1% of the option's mid price

IV rank is where the at the money IV sits among MTD'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, MTD options priced a move of 8.3 percent down and 7.4 percent up by 16 Oct 2026.

Expiry	Days	Down	Up	Range
16 Oct 2026	18	8.3%	7.4%	1,417.26 to 1,660.26
20 Nov 2026	53	13.9%	14.0%	1,330.26 to 1,761.26
15 Jan 2027	109	17.1%	18.1%	1,281.26 to 1,825.26
16 Apr 2027	200	24.3%	24.7%	1,170.26 to 1,926.26

The range is one standard deviation either side of the close of 1,545.26, 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, MTD's call wall and put wall are both at the 1,500 strike.

Figure	Value
Call wall, most open call gamma	1,500
Put wall, most open put gamma	1,500
Net dollar gamma, calls minus puts	$6.85 million
Total dollar gamma, both sides	$9.04 million
Close	1,545.26

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 3 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, MTD's at the money IV is 34.2 percent against 20 day realized volatility of 31.9 percent.

Figure	Value
At the money IV	34.2%
Realized volatility, 20 trading days	31.9%
Realized volatility, 60 trading days	27.2%
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	31.7% 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, MTD's at the money IV runs from 34.2 percent at 18 days to 32.8 percent at 200 days.

Days to expiry	At the money IV
18	34.2%
53	37.9%
109	34.7%
200	32.8%

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 53 day expiry, MTD's IV ten percent below the price sits 2.9 points above at the money IV.

Strike area	Implied volatility	Against at the money
10% below the price	40.8%	+2.9 points
At the money	37.9%	0.0 points
10% above the price	36.4%	-1.6 points

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Volatility Surface

On 28 Sep 2026, MTD's surface spans 4 expiries out to 200 days, with IV from 3.1 to 155.3 percent near the price.

Figure	Value
Expiries captured	4
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	50
Lowest IV among them	3.1%
Highest IV among them	155.3%

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Expiry Ladder

On 28 Sep 2026, MTD has 4 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	34.2%	322	187
20 Nov 2026	53	37.9%	986	95
15 Jan 2027	109	34.7%	790	16
16 Apr 2027	200	32.8%	78	87

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

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Strike Table

On 28 Sep 2026, MTD's largest open interest sits at the 1,500 strike, with 365 contracts across the captured expiries.

Strike	Call open interest	Put open interest	Total
1,500	310	55	365
1,680	254	0	254
1,700	177	0	177
1,580	165	0	165
1,440	151	5	156
1,640	125	3	128

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, MTD's at the money IV moved from 32.1 percent to 34.2 percent.

Figure	25 Sep	28 Sep	Change
At the money IV	32.1%	34.2%	+2.1 points
Open interest, strikes captured near the price	2,657	2,561	-96
Put/call ratio, open interest	0.18	0.18	+0.00

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, 1,294 MTD option contracts traded, 1.1 times its own recent average.

Figure	Value
Calls traded	893
Puts traded	401
Against its recent average	1.1 times
Busier than	18 of its last 20 trading days
Open interest, whole chain	3,298 contracts
Volume to open interest	0.39
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 34 trading days of MTD's option positioning, from 10 Aug 2026 to 28 Sep 2026.

Date	Close	Net dollar gamma	Top call strike	Top put strike
10 Aug 2026	1,427.53	$660,624	1,680	1,260
21 Sep 2026	1,430.44	$4.55 million	1,500	1,300
28 Sep 2026	1,545.26	$6.85 million	1,500	1,500

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 MTD was bearish, paper trading.

Figure	Value
Side	Bearish at 45 trading days, no signal
Level above the close	1,545.45, the swing high of 28 Sep 2026, a close past it runs against the view
Level below the close	1,440.22, the swing low of 27 Aug 2026
The chart	Sits against 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 MTD sat at the 5th percentile of the model's 45 trading day ranking, paper trading.

Timeframe	Percentile	Side
10 trading days	24 of 100	Neutral
20 trading days	5 of 100	Bearish
45 trading days	5 of 100	Bearish

100 is the top of the ranking. A name in the middle three fifths is neutral.

Paper trading. The model's figures from 25 Sep 2026, one trading day behind, as the Free plan shows them.

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Timeframe Agreement

On 25 Sep 2026, 2 of 3 timeframes put MTD 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

Paper trading. The model's figures from 25 Sep 2026, one trading day behind, as the Free plan shows them.

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Signal History

On 25 Sep 2026 MTD had carried no signal for 1 trading day, paper trading.

Trading day	Signal	45 day percentile
25 Sep 2026	None	5 of 100
24 Sep 2026	Bearish	3 of 100
23 Sep 2026	None	5 of 100
22 Sep 2026	None	6 of 100
21 Sep 2026	None	32 of 100
18 Sep 2026	None	15 of 100
17 Sep 2026	None	22 of 100
16 Sep 2026	None	9 of 100

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Sector Split

On 25 Sep 2026, 32 of 120 Health Care names were bullish and 52 were bearish, paper trading.

Sector	Names	Bullish	Bearish	Neutral
Health Care	120	32	52	36

Paper trading. The model's figures from 25 Sep 2026, one trading day behind, as the Free plan shows them.

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Price Chart

MTD closed at 1,545.26 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
Last close	1,545.26
Change over 5 trading days	+8.0%
Change over 21 trading days	+9.8%
Change over 63 trading days	+22.8%
Change over 252 trading days	+27.8%
52 week high	1,545.45
52 week low	1,023.05
20 day moving average	1,391.37
50 day moving average	1,391.96
200 day moving average	1,316.69
RSI, 14 days	73

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

MTD reports next on 5 Nov 2026, a date worked out from past quarters.

Figure	Value
Next report	5 Nov 2026, after the close
Date	Worked out from past quarters
Move after the report of 30 Jul 2026	+2.6%
Move after the report of 30 Apr 2026	-0.8%
Move after the report of 28 Jan 2026	-0.6%
Move after the report of 1 May 2025	+4.1%

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

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Short Volume

On 25 Sep 2026, 50.0 percent of MTD's reported volume at the covered venues was marked short.

Figure	Value
Short sale share, 25 Sep	50.0%
Five day average	53.3%
52 week median	57.8%

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 23 Septembers on record, MTD's average change was plus 0.0 percent, and it rose in 56.5 percent of them.

Month	Average change	Middle change	Share of years up	Years
September	+0.0%	+2.6%	56.5%	23
October	+1.9%	+3.3%	73.9%	23
November	+6.9%	+7.7%	87.0%	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 MTD 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 MTD's IV rank?: MTD's IV rank is 92 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.
What move are MTD options pricing?: On 28 Sep 2026, MTD options priced a move of 8.3 percent down and 7.4 percent up by 16 Oct 2026.
Where are MTD's call wall and put wall?: On 28 Sep 2026, MTD's call wall and put wall are both at the 1,500 strike.
What was the desk's latest view of MTD on the Free plan?: On 25 Sep 2026 the desk's view of MTD was bearish, paper trading.
When does MTD report earnings next?: MTD reports next on 5 Nov 2026, a date worked out from past quarters.

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