Industrials

Nordson Corp (NDSN) options and signal

Figures as of 28 Sep 2026

NDSN is Nordson 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
IV rank	16 of 100	28 Sep
At the money IV	22.8%	28 Sep
Priced move to 16 Oct	4.8% down, 5.0% up	28 Sep
Call wall and put wall	330 and 320	28 Sep
Signal and the desk's view	No signal, view neutral	25 Sep
Last close	331.32	28 Sep

Options Snapshot

NDSN's IV rank is 16 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
IV rank	16 of 100
At the money IV	22.8%, near month, 18 days
Put/call ratio, open interest	0.64
Call open interest, strikes captured near the price	1,520 contracts
Put open interest, strikes captured near the price	970 contracts
Cost to trade at the money	Fair, 33.7% of the option's mid price

IV rank is where the at the money IV sits among NDSN'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, NDSN options priced a move of 4.8 percent down and 5.0 percent up by 16 Oct 2026.

Expiry	Days	Down	Up	Range
16 Oct 2026	18	4.8%	5.0%	315.52 to 348.02
20 Nov 2026	53	10.0%	8.4%	298.32 to 359.12
18 Dec 2026	81	12.7%	13.3%	289.32 to 375.52
19 Mar 2027	172	20.1%	19.6%	264.62 to 396.32

The range is one standard deviation either side of the close of 331.32, as the option prices imply it.

A priced move restates option prices at the close and says nothing certain about where the price goes.

Thin quote at that expiry; its neighbours' reading stands in.

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, NDSN's call wall is the 330 strike and its put wall is the 320 strike.

Figure	Value
Call wall, most open call gamma	330
Put wall, most open put gamma	320
Net dollar gamma, calls minus puts	$764,344
Total dollar gamma, both sides	$2.03 million
Close	331.32

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.

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, NDSN's at the money IV is 22.8 percent against 20 day realized volatility of 19.8 percent.

Figure	Value
At the money IV	22.8%
Realized volatility, 20 trading days	19.8%
Realized volatility, 60 trading days	24.6%
IV against its own weekly record	Low, in the bottom fifth
Weekly readings on record	859, from 8 Jan 2010
Weeks the price moved more than the one week priced move	27.0% 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, NDSN's at the money IV runs from 22.8 percent at 18 days to 29.3 percent at 172 days.

Days to expiry	At the money IV
18	22.8%
53	22.0%
81	26.7%
172	29.3%

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, NDSN's IV ten percent below the price sits 7.0 points above at the money IV.

Strike area	Implied volatility	Against at the money
10% below the price	29.0%	+7.0 points
At the money	22.0%	0.0 points
10% above the price	26.4%	+4.4 points

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Volatility Surface

On 28 Sep 2026, NDSN's surface spans 4 expiries out to 172 days, with IV from 21.0 to 45.0 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	23
Lowest IV among them	21.0%
Highest IV among them	45.0%

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Expiry Ladder

On 28 Sep 2026, NDSN 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	22.8%	456	51
20 Nov 2026	53	22.0%	5	36
18 Dec 2026	81	26.7%	608	866
19 Mar 2027	172	29.3%	449	17

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

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Strike Table

On 28 Sep 2026, NDSN's largest open interest sits at the 330 strike, with 481 contracts across the captured expiries.

Strike	Call open interest	Put open interest	Total
330	323	158	481
320	292	177	469
380	401	0	401
310	340	47	387
250	4	276	280
260	14	252	266

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Since Yesterday

From 25 Sep 2026 to 28 Sep 2026, NDSN's at the money IV moved from 22.0 percent to 22.8 percent.

Figure	25 Sep	28 Sep	Change
At the money IV	22.0%	22.8%	+0.8 points
Open interest, strikes captured near the price	2,425	2,488	+63
Put/call ratio, open interest	0.63	0.64	+0.01

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, 1,180 NDSN option contracts traded, 2.1 times its own recent average.

Figure	Value
Calls traded	1,111
Puts traded	69
Against its recent average	2.1 times
Busier than	20 of its last 20 trading days
Open interest, whole chain	2,540 contracts
Volume to open interest	0.46
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 22 trading days of NDSN's option positioning, from 27 Aug 2026 to 28 Sep 2026.

Date	Close	Net dollar gamma	Top call strike	Top put strike
27 Aug 2026	330.84	$1.54 million	330	310
21 Sep 2026	314.35	$787,456	310	320
28 Sep 2026	331.32	$764,344	330	320

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 NDSN was neutral, paper trading.

Figure	Value
Side	Neutral at 45 trading days, no signal
Level above the close	339.12, the swing high of 26 Aug 2026
Level below the close	321.10, the swing low of 4 Sep 2026
Strategy family	Long straddle (buy a call and a put at the same strike)
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 NDSN sat at the 55th percentile of the model's 45 trading day ranking, paper trading.

Timeframe	Percentile	Side
10 trading days	67 of 100	Neutral
20 trading days	64 of 100	Neutral
45 trading days	55 of 100	Neutral

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 NDSN'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 NDSN had carried no signal for 11 trading days, paper trading.

Trading day	Signal	45 day percentile
25 Sep 2026	None	55 of 100
24 Sep 2026	None	31 of 100
23 Sep 2026	None	38 of 100
22 Sep 2026	None	51 of 100
21 Sep 2026	None	41 of 100
18 Sep 2026	None	32 of 100
17 Sep 2026	None	82 of 100
16 Sep 2026	None	75 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

NDSN closed at 331.32 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
Last close	331.32
Change over 5 trading days	+5.4%
Change over 21 trading days	+0.1%
Change over 63 trading days	+9.7%
Change over 252 trading days	+49.6%
52 week high	339.12
52 week low	222.13
20 day moving average	316.35
50 day moving average	312.20
200 day moving average	285.28
RSI, 14 days	67

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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Short Volume

On 25 Sep 2026, 50.3 percent of NDSN's reported volume at the covered venues was marked short.

Figure	Value
Short sale share, 25 Sep	50.3%
Five day average	46.3%
52 week median	58.6%
Short interest, share of shares outstanding	2.7% at the 15 Sep 2026 settlement
Days to cover	4.5

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, NDSN's average change was plus 0.8 percent, and it rose in 52.2 percent of them.

Month	Average change	Middle change	Share of years up	Years
September	+0.8%	+0.1%	52.2%	23
October	+1.8%	+2.0%	69.6%	23
November	+3.4%	+2.5%	82.6%	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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Questions

What is NDSN's IV rank?: NDSN's IV rank is 16 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.
What move are NDSN options pricing?: On 28 Sep 2026, NDSN options priced a move of 4.8 percent down and 5.0 percent up by 16 Oct 2026.
Where are NDSN's call wall and put wall?: On 28 Sep 2026, NDSN's call wall is the 330 strike and its put wall is the 320 strike.
What was the desk's latest view of NDSN on the Free plan?: On 25 Sep 2026 the desk's view of NDSN was neutral, paper trading.

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Strike	Call open interest	Put open interest	Total
330	323	158	481
320	292	177	469
380	401	0	401
310	340	47	387
250	4	276	280
260	14	252	266

Strike	Call open interest	Put open interest	Total
330	323	158	481
320	292	177	469
380	401	0	401
310	340	47	387
250	4	276	280
260	14	252	266

Strike	Call open interest	Put open interest	Total
330	323	158	481
320	292	177	469
380	401	0	401
310	340	47	387
250	4	276	280
260	14	252	266