Information Technology

PTC Inc (PTC) options and signal

Figures as of 28 Sep 2026

PTC is PTC 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	90 of 100	28 Sep
At the money IV	55.8%	28 Sep
Priced move to 16 Oct	13.5% down, 10.8% up	28 Sep
Call wall and put wall	125 and 120	28 Sep
Signal and the desk's view	No signal, view bearish	25 Sep
Last close	139.69	28 Sep
Next report	11 Nov 2026	28 Sep

Options Snapshot

PTC's IV rank is 90 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
IV rank	90 of 100
At the money IV	55.8%, near month, 18 days
Put/call ratio, open interest	0.53
Call open interest, strikes captured near the price	6,810 contracts
Put open interest, strikes captured near the price	3,640 contracts
Cost to trade at the money	Wide, 65.0% of the option's mid price

IV rank is where the at the money IV sits among PTC'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, PTC options priced a move of 13.5 percent down and 10.8 percent up by 16 Oct 2026.

Expiry	Days	Down	Up	Range
16 Oct 2026	18	13.5%	10.8%	120.79 to 154.79
20 Nov 2026	53	19.0%	22.2%	113.09 to 170.69
15 Jan 2027	109	28.7%	29.6%	99.59 to 180.99
16 Apr 2027	200	34.7%	38.8%	91.19 to 193.89

The range is one standard deviation either side of the close of 139.69, 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, PTC's call wall is the 125 strike and its put wall is the 120 strike.

Figure	Value
Call wall, most open call gamma	125
Put wall, most open put gamma	120
Net dollar gamma, calls minus puts	$578,537
Total dollar gamma, both sides	$1.88 million
Close	139.69

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, PTC's at the money IV is 55.8 percent against 20 day realized volatility of 43.5 percent.

Figure	Value
At the money IV	55.8%
Realized volatility, 20 trading days	43.5%
Realized volatility, 60 trading days	42.9%
IV against its own weekly record	High, in the top fifth
Weekly readings on record	623, from 6 Dec 2013
Weeks the price moved more than the one week priced move	19.4% 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, PTC's at the money IV runs from 55.8 percent at 18 days to 49.7 percent at 200 days.

Days to expiry	At the money IV
18	55.8%
53	53.9%
109	52.9%
200	49.7%

Near expiries price more volatility than far ones, an inverted term structure.

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Volatility Smile

On 28 Sep 2026, at the 53 day expiry, PTC's IV ten percent below the price sits 35.0 points above at the money IV.

Strike area	Implied volatility	Against at the money
10% below the price	88.9%	+35.0 points
At the money	53.9%	0.0 points
10% above the price	57.9%	+4.0 points

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Volatility Surface

On 28 Sep 2026, PTC's surface spans 4 expiries out to 200 days, with IV from 49.9 to 61.4 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	19
Lowest IV among them	49.9%
Highest IV among them	61.4%

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Expiry Ladder

On 28 Sep 2026, PTC 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	55.8%	590	413
20 Nov 2026	53	53.9%	774	1,823
15 Jan 2027	109	52.9%	5,260	1,358
16 Apr 2027	200	49.7%	189	50

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

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Strike Table

On 28 Sep 2026, PTC's largest open interest sits at the 120 strike, with 3,257 contracts across the captured expiries.

Strike	Call open interest	Put open interest	Total
120	2,299	958	3,257
125	2,378	250	2,628
110	28	1,206	1,234
150	846	22	868
130	209	195	404
140	157	171	328

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Since Yesterday

From 25 Sep 2026 to 28 Sep 2026, PTC's at the money IV moved from 52.3 percent to 55.8 percent.

Figure	25 Sep	28 Sep	Change
At the money IV	52.3%	55.8%	+3.4 points
Open interest, strikes captured near the price	10,448	10,457	+9
Put/call ratio, open interest	0.54	0.53	-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, 1,284 PTC option contracts traded, 1.9 times its own recent average.

Figure	Value
Calls traded	1,070
Puts traded	214
Against its recent average	1.9 times
Busier than	6 of its last 20 trading days
Open interest, whole chain	10,524 contracts
Volume to open interest	0.12
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 PTC'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	150.44	$2.55 million	150	130
21 Sep 2026	135.28	$436,008	125	120
28 Sep 2026	139.69	$578,537	125	120

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 PTC was bearish, paper trading.

Figure	Value
Side	Bearish at 45 trading days, no signal
Level above the close	142.81, the swing high of 23 Sep 2026, a close past it runs against the view
Level below the close	137.75, the swing low of 14 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 PTC sat at the 6th percentile of the model's 45 trading day ranking, paper trading.

Timeframe	Percentile	Side
10 trading days	9 of 100	Bearish
20 trading days	20 of 100	Neutral
45 trading days	6 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 PTC 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 PTC had carried no signal for at least 18 trading days, paper trading.

Trading day	Signal	45 day percentile
25 Sep 2026	None	6 of 100
24 Sep 2026	None	6 of 100
23 Sep 2026	None	10 of 100
22 Sep 2026	None	13 of 100
21 Sep 2026	None	7 of 100
18 Sep 2026	None	8 of 100
17 Sep 2026	None	7 of 100
16 Sep 2026	None	8 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

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

PTC closed at 139.69 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
Last close	139.69
Change over 5 trading days	+3.3%
Change over 21 trading days	-12.1%
Change over 63 trading days	+22.7%
Change over 252 trading days	-31.1%
52 week high	206.82
52 week low	108.50
20 day moving average	138.61
50 day moving average	140.34
200 day moving average	145.79
RSI, 14 days	50

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

PTC reports next on 11 Nov 2026, a date confirmed by the company.

Figure	Value
Next report	11 Nov 2026, after the close
Date	Confirmed by the company
Move after the report of 29 Jul 2026	+2.9%
Move after the report of 30 Apr 2026	+0.2%
Move after the report of 28 Jan 2026	-5.2%
Move after the report of 30 Apr 2025	+0.9%

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

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Short Volume

On 25 Sep 2026, 55.2 percent of PTC's reported volume at the covered venues was marked short.

Figure	Value
Short sale share, 25 Sep	55.2%
Five day average	44.5%
52 week median	51.9%
Short interest, share of shares outstanding	5.5% at the 15 Sep 2026 settlement
Days to cover	3.8

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, PTC's average change was plus 0.1 percent, and it rose in 52.2 percent of them.

Month	Average change	Middle change	Share of years up	Years
September	+0.1%	+0.5%	52.2%	23
October	+2.6%	+2.6%	56.5%	23
November	+2.6%	+1.7%	60.9%	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 PTC's IV rank?: PTC's IV rank is 90 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.
What move are PTC options pricing?: On 28 Sep 2026, PTC options priced a move of 13.5 percent down and 10.8 percent up by 16 Oct 2026.
Where are PTC's call wall and put wall?: On 28 Sep 2026, PTC's call wall is the 125 strike and its put wall is the 120 strike.
What was the desk's latest view of PTC on the Free plan?: On 25 Sep 2026 the desk's view of PTC was bearish, paper trading.
When does PTC report earnings next?: PTC reports next on 11 Nov 2026, a date confirmed by the company.

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