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Seagate Technology (STX) options and signal

Figures as of 28 Sep 2026

STX is Seagate Technology, 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	98 of 100	28 Sep
At the money IV	73.2%	28 Sep
Priced move to 30 Oct	21.2% down, 22.5% up	28 Sep
Call wall and put wall	900 and 880	28 Sep
Signal and the desk's view	No signal, view neutral	25 Sep
Last close	921.51	28 Sep
Next report	27 Oct 2026	28 Sep

Options Snapshot

STX's IV rank is 98 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
IV rank	98 of 100
At the money IV	73.2%, near month, 32 days
Put/call ratio, open interest	0.76
Call open interest, strikes captured near the price	28,700 contracts
Put open interest, strikes captured near the price	21,800 contracts
Cost to trade at the money	Fair, 14.6% of the option's mid price

IV rank is where the at the money IV sits among STX'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, STX options priced a move of 21.2 percent down and 22.5 percent up by 30 Oct 2026.

Expiry	Days	Down	Up	Range
2 Oct 2026	4	7.3%	7.6%	854.41 to 991.41
9 Oct 2026	11	11.6%	11.6%	814.51 to 1,028.51
23 Oct 2026	25	16.8%	17.9%	766.51 to 1,086.51
30 Oct 2026	32	21.2%	22.5%	726.51 to 1,128.51
20 Nov 2026	53	26.4%	27.9%	678.51 to 1,178.51
18 Dec 2026	81	32.0%	33.7%	626.51 to 1,232.51
19 Mar 2027	172	44.9%	49.7%	507.51 to 1,379.51

The range is one standard deviation either side of the close of 921.51, 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, STX's call wall is the 900 strike and its put wall is the 880 strike.

Figure	Value
Call wall, most open call gamma	900
Put wall, most open put gamma	880
Net dollar gamma, calls minus puts	$13.89 million
Total dollar gamma, both sides	$78.44 million
Close	921.51

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 6 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, STX's at the money IV is 73.2 percent against 20 day realized volatility of 53.5 percent.

Figure	Value
At the money IV	73.2%
Realized volatility, 20 trading days	53.5%
Realized volatility, 60 trading days	74.2%
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, STX's at the money IV runs from 70.3 percent at 4 days to 69.2 percent at 172 days.

Days to expiry	At the money IV
4	70.3%
11	65.5%
18	65.9%
25	66.9%
39	73.4%
53	71.5%
81	69.7%
172	69.2%

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 32 day expiry, STX's IV ten percent below the price sits 0.2 points below at the money IV.

Strike area	Implied volatility	Against at the money
10% below the price	73.1%	-0.2 points
At the money	73.2%	0.0 points
10% above the price	75.1%	+1.9 points

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Volatility Surface

On 28 Sep 2026, STX's surface spans 10 expiries out to 172 days, with IV from 64.7 to 75.9 percent near the price.

Figure	Value
Expiries captured	10
Nearest expiry	2 Oct 2026, 4 days
Farthest expiry	19 Mar 2027, 172 days
Points within 10% of the price, 7 days out or more	226
Lowest IV among them	64.7%
Highest IV among them	75.9%

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Expiry Ladder

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

Expiry	Days	At the money IV	Call open interest	Put open interest
2 Oct 2026	4	70.3%	2,566	2,021
9 Oct 2026	11	65.5%	699	419
16 Oct 2026	18	65.9%	7,689	4,761
23 Oct 2026	25	66.9%	785	470
30 Oct 2026	32	73.2%	622	618
6 Nov 2026	39	73.4%	16	45
20 Nov 2026	53	71.5%	3,871	3,332
18 Dec 2026	81	69.7%	4,281	2,451
15 Jan 2027	109	67.8%	5,495	3,484
19 Mar 2027	172	69.2%	2,655	4,188

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

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Strike Table

On 28 Sep 2026, STX's largest open interest sits at the 900 strike, with 4,059 contracts across the captured expiries.

Strike	Call open interest	Put open interest	Total
900	2,973	1,086	4,059
1,000	3,130	696	3,826
800	2,314	1,470	3,784
880	862	1,293	2,155
850	964	1,118	2,082
820	542	1,534	2,076

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, STX's at the money IV moved from 65.2 percent to 73.2 percent.

Figure	25 Sep	28 Sep	Change
At the money IV	65.2%	73.2%	+8.1 points
Open interest, strikes captured near the price	51,475	50,468	-1,007
Put/call ratio, open interest	0.73	0.76	+0.03

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, 33,096 STX option contracts traded, 1.2 times its own recent average.

Figure	Value
Calls traded	19,736
Puts traded	13,360
Against its recent average	1.2 times
Busier than	11 of its last 20 trading days
Open interest, whole chain	191,205 contracts
Volume to open interest	0.17
Unusual volume flag	Yes, 1 contract traded well above open interest
Largest flagged contract	The 1,000 call expiring 2 Oct, 6,663 traded against 288 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 STX'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	820.52	$4.78 million	850	750
21 Sep 2026	877.33	$14.17 million	900	800
28 Sep 2026	921.51	$13.89 million	900	880

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 STX was neutral, paper trading.

Figure	Value
Side	Neutral at 45 trading days, no signal
Level above the close	925.44, the swing high of 8 Sep 2026
Level below the close	763.52, the swing low of 3 Sep 2026
Strategy family	Iron condor (sell both sides, defined risk)
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 STX sat at the 30th percentile of the model's 45 trading day ranking, paper trading.

Timeframe	Percentile	Side
10 trading days	46 of 100	Neutral
20 trading days	36 of 100	Neutral
45 trading days	30 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 STX'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

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 STX had carried no signal for 3 trading days, paper trading.

Trading day	Signal	45 day percentile
25 Sep 2026	None	30 of 100
24 Sep 2026	None	29 of 100
23 Sep 2026	None	10 of 100
22 Sep 2026	Bearish	4 of 100
21 Sep 2026	None	24 of 100
18 Sep 2026	None	48 of 100
17 Sep 2026	None	55 of 100
16 Sep 2026	Bearish	4 of 100

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

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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

STX closed at 921.51 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
Last close	921.51
Change over 5 trading days	+5.0%
Change over 21 trading days	+8.8%
Change over 63 trading days	-4.9%
Change over 252 trading days	+319.2%
52 week high	1,145.00
52 week low	209.00
20 day moving average	853.60
50 day moving average	852.42
200 day moving average	638.45
RSI, 14 days	59

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

STX reports next on 27 Oct 2026, and options priced an earnings move of 17.5 percent through 30 Oct 2026.

Figure	Value
Next report	27 Oct 2026, after the close
Date	Confirmed by the company
Priced earnings move	17.5%, a straddle of $161.60 at the 920 strike, expiring 30 Oct 2026
Move after the report of 28 Jul 2026	+2.3%
Move after the report of 28 Apr 2026	+11.1%
Move after the report of 27 Jan 2026	+19.1%
Move after the report of 28 Oct 2025	+19.1%

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

The filings the desk holds carry 1 recent trade in STX shares.

Filed	Who	Trade	Size
25 Sep 2026	. Kevin Hern, member of Congress	Sold part	$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, 57.4 percent of STX's reported volume at the covered venues was marked short.

Figure	Value
Short sale share, 25 Sep	57.4%
Five day average	59.0%
52 week median	45.1%
Short interest, share of shares outstanding	4.0% at the 15 Sep 2026 settlement
Days to cover	2.7

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, STX's average change was plus 2.7 percent, and it rose in 52.2 percent of them.

Month	Average change	Middle change	Share of years up	Years
September	+2.7%	+2.7%	52.2%	23
October	-0.2%	-2.9%	43.5%	23
November	+4.5%	+5.9%	73.9%	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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Headlines

The desk's news feeds carried 2 headlines naming STX 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 STX's IV rank?: STX's IV rank is 98 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.
What move are STX options pricing?: On 28 Sep 2026, STX options priced a move of 21.2 percent down and 22.5 percent up by 30 Oct 2026.
Where are STX's call wall and put wall?: On 28 Sep 2026, STX's call wall is the 900 strike and its put wall is the 880 strike.
What was the desk's latest view of STX on the Free plan?: On 25 Sep 2026 the desk's view of STX was neutral, paper trading.
When does STX report earnings next?: STX reports next on 27 Oct 2026, and options priced an earnings move of 17.5 percent through 30 Oct 2026.

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