Information Technology

MaxLinear, Inc. (MXL) options and signal

Figures as of 28 Sep 2026

MXL is MaxLinear, 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	81 of 100	28 Sep
At the money IV	92.9%	28 Sep
Priced move to 16 Oct	20.4% down, 20.8% up	28 Sep
Call wall and put wall	95 and 65	28 Sep
Signal and the desk's view	No signal, view bearish	25 Sep
Last close	90.00	28 Sep
Next report	22 Oct 2026	28 Sep

Options Snapshot

MXL's IV rank is 81 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
IV rank	81 of 100
At the money IV	92.9%, near month, 18 days
Put/call ratio, open interest	0.94
Call open interest, strikes captured near the price	23,400 contracts
Put open interest, strikes captured near the price	22,100 contracts
Cost to trade at the money	Fair, 18.4% of the option's mid price

IV rank is where the at the money IV sits among MXL'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, MXL options priced a move of 20.4 percent down and 20.8 percent up by 16 Oct 2026.

Expiry	Days	Down	Up	Range
16 Oct 2026	18	20.4%	20.8%	71.60 to 108.70
20 Nov 2026	53	41.6%	40.4%	52.60 to 126.40
18 Dec 2026	81	47.6%	49.2%	47.20 to 134.30
15 Jan 2027	109	52.7%	54.3%	42.60 to 138.90
19 Mar 2027	172	67.3%	69.6%	29.40 to 152.60

The range is one standard deviation either side of the close of 90.00, 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, MXL's call wall is the 95 strike and its put wall is the 65 strike.

Figure	Value
Call wall, most open call gamma	95
Put wall, most open put gamma	65
Net dollar gamma, calls minus puts	$554,000
Total dollar gamma, both sides	$3.1 million
Close	90.00

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.

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Volatility History

On 28 Sep 2026, MXL's at the money IV is 92.9 percent against 20 day realized volatility of 93.0 percent.

Figure	Value
At the money IV	92.9%
Realized volatility, 20 trading days	93.0%
Realized volatility, 60 trading days	121.7%
IV against its own weekly record	High, in the top fifth
Weekly readings on record	820, from 16 Apr 2010
Weeks the price moved more than the one week priced move	26.3% 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, MXL's at the money IV runs from 92.9 percent at 18 days to 98.0 percent at 172 days.

Days to expiry	At the money IV
18	92.9%
53	110.5%
81	101.6%
109	96.4%
172	98.0%

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, MXL's IV ten percent below the price sits 5.1 points below at the money IV.

Strike area	Implied volatility	Against at the money
10% below the price	105.5%	-5.1 points
At the money	110.5%	0.0 points
10% above the price	105.3%	-5.2 points

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Volatility Surface

On 28 Sep 2026, MXL's surface spans 5 expiries out to 172 days, with IV from 51.6 to 110.5 percent near the price.

Figure	Value
Expiries captured	5
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	15
Lowest IV among them	51.6%
Highest IV among them	110.5%

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Expiry Ladder

On 28 Sep 2026, MXL has 5 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	92.9%	7,663	4,456
20 Nov 2026	53	110.5%	1,310	1,311
18 Dec 2026	81	101.6%	8,374	12,894
15 Jan 2027	109	96.4%	5,047	3,270
19 Mar 2027	172	98.0%	1,013	163

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

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Strike Table

On 28 Sep 2026, MXL's largest open interest sits at the 65 strike, with 6,257 contracts across the captured expiries.

Strike	Call open interest	Put open interest	Total
65	1,060	5,197	6,257
70	1,155	4,003	5,158
75	1,316	3,479	4,795
55	1,503	2,347	3,850
90	1,758	1,895	3,653
95	2,772	138	2,910

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Since Yesterday

From 25 Sep 2026 to 28 Sep 2026, MXL's at the money IV moved from 94.5 percent to 92.9 percent.

Figure	25 Sep	28 Sep	Change
At the money IV	94.5%	92.9%	-1.6 points
Open interest, strikes captured near the price	42,514	45,501	+2,987
Put/call ratio, open interest	0.91	0.94	+0.04

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, 4,857 MXL option contracts traded, 0.8 times its own recent average.

Figure	Value
Calls traded	3,251
Puts traded	1,606
Against its recent average	0.8 times
Busier than	8 of its last 20 trading days
Open interest, whole chain	52,657 contracts
Volume to open interest	0.09
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 MXL'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	69.02	minus $570,417	80	75
21 Sep 2026	85.98	$419,124	95	70
28 Sep 2026	90.00	$554,000	95	65

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 MXL was bearish, paper trading.

Figure	Value
Side	Bearish at 45 trading days, no signal
Level above the close	128.30, the swing high of 30 Jun 2026, a close past it runs against the view
Level below the close	88.98, the swing low of 21 Sep 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 MXL sat at the 7th percentile of the model's 45 trading day ranking, paper trading.

Timeframe	Percentile	Side
10 trading days	18 of 100	Bearish
20 trading days	9 of 100	Bearish
45 trading days	7 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, 3 of 3 timeframes put MXL on the bearish side, paper trading.

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

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Signal History

On 25 Sep 2026 MXL had carried no signal for 3 trading days, paper trading.

Trading day	Signal	45 day percentile
25 Sep 2026	None	7 of 100
24 Sep 2026	None	9 of 100
23 Sep 2026	None	8 of 100
22 Sep 2026	Bearish	5 of 100
21 Sep 2026	None	11 of 100
18 Sep 2026	None	25 of 100
17 Sep 2026	None	11 of 100
16 Sep 2026	None	10 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

MXL closed at 90.00 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
Last close	90.00
Change over 5 trading days	+4.7%
Change over 21 trading days	+41.9%
Change over 63 trading days	-17.0%
Change over 252 trading days	+463.9%
52 week high	128.30
52 week low	12.77
20 day moving average	73.31
50 day moving average	71.81
200 day moving average	52.07
RSI, 14 days	63

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

MXL reports next on 22 Oct 2026, a date confirmed by the company.

Figure	Value
Next report	22 Oct 2026, after the close
Date	Confirmed by the company
Move after the report of 23 Jul 2026	-21.5%
Move after the report of 24 Apr 2026	-14.4%
Move after the report of 22 Jan 2026	-5.0%
Move after the report of 23 Apr 2025	-12.3%

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

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Seasonality

In the 16 Septembers on record, MXL's average change was plus 1.9 percent, and it rose in 50.0 percent of them.

Month	Average change	Middle change	Share of years up	Years
September	+1.9%	+0.4%	50.0%	16
October	-3.4%	-5.6%	37.5%	16
November	+8.1%	+6.0%	81.2%	16

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 MXL 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 MXL's IV rank?: MXL's IV rank is 81 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.
What move are MXL options pricing?: On 28 Sep 2026, MXL options priced a move of 20.4 percent down and 20.8 percent up by 16 Oct 2026.
Where are MXL's call wall and put wall?: On 28 Sep 2026, MXL's call wall is the 95 strike and its put wall is the 65 strike.
What was the desk's latest view of MXL on the Free plan?: On 25 Sep 2026 the desk's view of MXL was bearish, paper trading.
When does MXL report earnings next?: MXL reports next on 22 Oct 2026, a date confirmed by the company.

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