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Qualcomm (QCOM) options and signal

Figures as of 28 Sep 2026

QCOM is Qualcomm, 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
Trade Card	Bull put spread, 18 Dec	25 Sep
IV rank	97 of 100	28 Sep
At the money IV	49.8%	28 Sep
Priced move to 30 Oct	14.1% down, 15.7% up	28 Sep
Call wall and put wall	Both 200	28 Sep
Signal and the desk's view	No signal, view bullish	25 Sep
Last close	187.48	28 Sep
Next report	4 Nov 2026	28 Sep

Trade Cards

On 25 Sep 2026 the Trade Card for QCOM was a bull put spread expiring 18 Dec 2026, paper trading.

Figure	Value
Signal	Neutral
Strategy	Bull put spread, credit
Legs	Sell the 170 put, Buy the 145 put
Expiry	18 Dec 2026, 84 days to expiry
Limit	A credit of at least $4.21
Probability of profit	70%, the option market's odds at expiry, from delta
Max loss	$2,079 per contract
Max profit	$421 per contract
Breakeven	165.79
IV rank at that expiry	98 of 100

Probability of profit is the option market's own odds from delta, not the model's.

Priced on the option chain at the close on 25 Sep 2026.

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

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Options Snapshot

QCOM's IV rank is 97 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
IV rank	97 of 100
At the money IV	49.8%, near month, 32 days
Put/call ratio, open interest	0.81
Call open interest, strikes captured near the price	311,000 contracts
Put open interest, strikes captured near the price	252,000 contracts
Cost to trade at the money	Fair, 14.8% of the option's mid price

IV rank is where the at the money IV sits among QCOM'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, QCOM options priced a move of 14.1 percent down and 15.7 percent up by 30 Oct 2026.

Expiry	Days	Down	Up	Range
2 Oct 2026	4	5.3%	5.6%	177.51 to 197.98
9 Oct 2026	11	8.3%	8.9%	171.88 to 204.08
23 Oct 2026	25	12.4%	13.2%	164.18 to 212.28
30 Oct 2026	32	14.1%	15.7%	160.98 to 216.98
20 Nov 2026	53	19.4%	20.8%	151.08 to 226.48
18 Dec 2026	81	23.6%	24.7%	143.28 to 233.88
19 Feb 2027	144	31.5%	33.7%	128.38 to 250.58

The range is one standard deviation either side of the close of 187.48, 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, QCOM's call wall and put wall are both at the 200 strike.

Figure	Value
Call wall, most open call gamma	200
Put wall, most open put gamma	200
Net dollar gamma, calls minus puts	$31.71 million
Total dollar gamma, both sides	$150.42 million
Close	187.48

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 5 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, QCOM's at the money IV is 49.8 percent against 20 day realized volatility of 57.8 percent.

Figure	Value
At the money IV	49.8%
Realized volatility, 20 trading days	57.8%
Realized volatility, 60 trading days	48.0%
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	32.1% 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, QCOM's at the money IV runs from 51.4 percent at 4 days to 51.7 percent at 144 days.

Days to expiry	At the money IV
4	51.4%
11	49.5%
18	52.2%
25	51.2%
39	55.2%
53	53.1%
81	51.6%
144	51.7%

Near and far expiries price about the same volatility, a flat 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 32 day expiry, QCOM's IV ten percent below the price sits 0.2 points above at the money IV.

Strike area	Implied volatility	Against at the money
10% below the price	50.0%	+0.2 points
At the money	49.8%	0.0 points
10% above the price	51.9%	+2.1 points

From the option chain at the close on 28 Sep 2026. Current on every plan.

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Volatility Surface

On 28 Sep 2026, QCOM's surface spans 10 expiries out to 144 days, with IV from 48.6 to 55.9 percent near the price.

Figure	Value
Expiries captured	10
Nearest expiry	2 Oct 2026, 4 days
Farthest expiry	19 Feb 2027, 144 days
Points within 10% of the price, 7 days out or more	82
Lowest IV among them	48.6%
Highest IV among them	55.9%

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Expiry Ladder

On 28 Sep 2026, QCOM has 10 captured expiries, from 2 Oct 2026 to 19 Feb 2027.

Expiry	Days	At the money IV	Call open interest	Put open interest
2 Oct 2026	4	51.4%	24,534	10,003
9 Oct 2026	11	49.5%	6,680	3,008
16 Oct 2026	18	52.2%	58,316	31,038
23 Oct 2026	25	51.2%	3,703	2,355
30 Oct 2026	32	49.8%	4,732	2,862
6 Nov 2026	39	55.2%	680	375
20 Nov 2026	53	53.1%	32,229	31,036
18 Dec 2026	81	51.6%	59,083	51,528
15 Jan 2027	109	51.6%	109,842	109,276
19 Feb 2027	144	51.7%	11,378	10,607

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

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Strike Table

On 28 Sep 2026, QCOM's largest open interest sits at the 200 strike, with 61,809 contracts across the captured expiries.

Strike	Call open interest	Put open interest	Total
200	41,069	20,740	61,809
220	35,805	4,623	40,428
210	23,245	5,779	29,024
160	8,185	19,205	27,390
180	12,558	13,325	25,883
190	15,642	9,312	24,954

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, QCOM's at the money IV moved from 51.7 percent to 49.8 percent.

Figure	25 Sep	28 Sep	Change
At the money IV	51.7%	49.8%	-1.9 points
Open interest, strikes captured near the price	575,254	563,265	-11,989
Put/call ratio, open interest	0.79	0.81	+0.02

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, 100,858 QCOM option contracts traded, 1.0 times its own recent average.

Figure	Value
Calls traded	59,302
Puts traded	41,556
Against its recent average	1.0 times
Busier than	13 of its last 20 trading days
Open interest, whole chain	783,310 contracts
Volume to open interest	0.13
Unusual volume flag	Yes, 11 contracts traded well above open interest
Largest flagged contract	The 182.5 put expiring 2 Oct, 6,425 traded against 379 open

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 33 trading days of QCOM'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	162.68	$8.64 million	170	160
21 Sep 2026	194.23	$49.32 million	200	200
28 Sep 2026	187.48	$31.71 million	200	200

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 QCOM was bullish, paper trading.

Figure	Value
Side	Bullish at 45 trading days, no signal
Level above the close	205.85, the swing high of 25 Sep 2026
Level below the close	183.49, the swing low of 8 Sep 2026, a close past it runs against the view
The chart	Sits with the view
Strategy family	Bull put spread (sell a put spread 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 QCOM sat at the 65th percentile of the model's 45 trading day ranking, paper trading.

Timeframe	Percentile	Side
10 trading days	89 of 100	Bullish
20 trading days	79 of 100	Neutral
45 trading days	65 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 QCOM 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 QCOM had carried no signal for 6 trading days, paper trading.

Trading day	Signal	45 day percentile
25 Sep 2026	None	65 of 100
24 Sep 2026	None	80 of 100
23 Sep 2026	None	52 of 100
22 Sep 2026	None	42 of 100
21 Sep 2026	None	64 of 100
18 Sep 2026	None	54 of 100
17 Sep 2026	Bullish	68 of 100
16 Sep 2026	None	67 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

QCOM closed at 187.48 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
Last close	187.48
Change over 5 trading days	-3.5%
Change over 21 trading days	+13.8%
Change over 63 trading days	-0.7%
Change over 252 trading days	+10.5%
52 week high	259.92
52 week low	121.99
20 day moving average	182.32
50 day moving average	170.56
200 day moving average	169.19
RSI, 14 days	54

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

QCOM reports next on 4 Nov 2026, and options priced an earnings move of 14.7 percent through 6 Nov 2026.

Figure	Value
Next report	4 Nov 2026, after the close
Date	Confirmed by the company
Priced earnings move	14.7%, a straddle of $27.48 at the 185 strike, expiring 6 Nov 2026
Move after the report of 29 Jul 2026	-2.6%
Move after the report of 29 Apr 2026	+15.1%
Move after the report of 4 Feb 2026	-8.5%
Move after the report of 5 Nov 2025	-3.6%

The priced earnings move is the straddle's cost over the share price. It restates option prices and says nothing certain about the report.

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

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Public Filings

Company insiders reported 0 purchases and 1 sale of QCOM in the filings the desk holds.

Filed	Who	Trade	Size
25 Sep 2026	Amon Cristiano R, director, President & CEO	Sold	10,000 shares, $2 million
9 Sep 2026	. Maria Elvira Salazar, member of Congress	Sold	$1,001 to $15,000
9 Sep 2026	. Maria Elvira Salazar, member of Congress	Sold	$1,001 to $15,000

Every filing is reproduced as filed, and each one reaches the public days or weeks after the trade.

Filings as of 28 Sep 2026. Current on every plan.

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Short Volume

On 25 Sep 2026, 49.4 percent of QCOM's reported volume at the covered venues was marked short.

Figure	Value
Short sale share, 25 Sep	49.4%
Five day average	51.0%
52 week median	47.8%
Short interest, share of shares outstanding	3.6% at the 15 Sep 2026 settlement
Days to cover	3.1

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 34 Septembers on record, QCOM's average change was plus 1.7 percent, and it rose in 47.1 percent of them.

Month	Average change	Middle change	Share of years up	Years
September	+1.7%	-0.6%	47.1%	34
October	+2.4%	+2.1%	61.8%	34
November	+7.2%	+5.8%	67.6%	34

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 5 headlines naming QCOM in the 3 days to 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
Headlines in the window	5
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 QCOM's IV rank?: QCOM's IV rank is 97 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.
What move are QCOM options pricing?: On 28 Sep 2026, QCOM options priced a move of 14.1 percent down and 15.7 percent up by 30 Oct 2026.
Where are QCOM's call wall and put wall?: On 28 Sep 2026, QCOM's call wall and put wall are both at the 200 strike.
What was the latest Trade Card for QCOM on the Free plan?: On 25 Sep 2026 the Trade Card for QCOM was a bull put spread expiring 18 Dec 2026, paper trading.
When does QCOM report earnings next?: QCOM reports next on 4 Nov 2026, and options priced an earnings move of 14.7 percent through 6 Nov 2026.

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