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Vicor Corporation (VICR) options and signal

Figures as of 28 Sep 2026

VICR is Vicor Corporation, 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	69 of 100	28 Sep
At the money IV	85.1%	28 Sep
Priced move to 16 Oct	17.9% down, 19.2% up	28 Sep
Call wall and put wall	300 and 220	28 Sep
Signal and the desk's view	No signal, view bearish	25 Sep
Last close	285.10	28 Sep
Next report	20 Oct 2026	28 Sep

Options Snapshot

VICR's IV rank is 69 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
IV rank	69 of 100
At the money IV	85.1%, near month, 18 days
Put/call ratio, open interest	0.67
Call open interest, strikes captured near the price	10,300 contracts
Put open interest, strikes captured near the price	6,890 contracts
Cost to trade at the money	Fair, 19.8% of the option's mid price

IV rank is where the at the money IV sits among VICR'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, VICR options priced a move of 17.9 percent down and 19.2 percent up by 16 Oct 2026.

Expiry	Days	Down	Up	Range
16 Oct 2026	18	17.9%	19.2%	234.00 to 339.70
20 Nov 2026	53	33.1%	34.9%	190.70 to 384.50
15 Jan 2027	109	44.9%	48.8%	157.10 to 424.10
16 Apr 2027	200	60.7%	65.9%	112.10 to 473.10

The range is one standard deviation either side of the close of 285.10, 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, VICR's call wall is the 300 strike and its put wall is the 220 strike.

Figure	Value
Call wall, most open call gamma	300
Put wall, most open put gamma	220
Net dollar gamma, calls minus puts	$1.75 million
Total dollar gamma, both sides	$4.6 million
Close	285.10

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, VICR's at the money IV is 85.1 percent against 20 day realized volatility of 105.4 percent.

Figure	Value
At the money IV	85.1%
Realized volatility, 20 trading days	105.4%
Realized volatility, 60 trading days	97.5%
IV against its own weekly record	In the middle
Weekly readings on record	811, from 8 Jan 2010
Weeks the price moved more than the one week priced move	29.5% of 227 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, VICR's at the money IV runs from 85.1 percent at 18 days to 87.3 percent at 200 days.

Days to expiry	At the money IV
18	85.1%
53	92.5%
109	84.3%
200	87.3%

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, VICR's IV ten percent below the price sits 1.1 points above at the money IV.

Strike area	Implied volatility	Against at the money
10% below the price	93.6%	+1.1 points
At the money	92.5%	0.0 points
10% above the price	173.8%	+81.3 points

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Volatility Surface

On 28 Sep 2026, VICR's surface spans 4 expiries out to 200 days, with IV from 82.2 to 173.8 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	24
Lowest IV among them	82.2%
Highest IV among them	173.8%

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Expiry Ladder

On 28 Sep 2026, VICR 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	85.1%	4,873	4,103
20 Nov 2026	53	92.5%	2,820	1,681
15 Jan 2027	109	84.3%	2,192	1,032
16 Apr 2027	200	87.3%	449	73

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

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Strike Table

On 28 Sep 2026, VICR's largest open interest sits at the 220 strike, with 2,269 contracts across the captured expiries.

Strike	Call open interest	Put open interest	Total
220	386	1,883	2,269
300	1,238	48	1,286
240	781	347	1,128
250	729	185	914
260	385	517	902
350	876	24	900

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Since Yesterday

From 25 Sep 2026 to 28 Sep 2026, VICR's at the money IV moved from 83.0 percent to 85.1 percent.

Figure	25 Sep	28 Sep	Change
At the money IV	83.0%	85.1%	+2.1 points
Open interest, strikes captured near the price	16,915	17,223	+308
Put/call ratio, open interest	0.70	0.67	-0.03

Open interest changes cannot identify buyers or sellers.

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Changed Hands

On 28 Sep 2026, 2,043 VICR option contracts traded, 0.5 times its own recent average.

Figure	Value
Calls traded	785
Puts traded	1,258
Against its recent average	0.5 times
Busier than	7 of its last 20 trading days
Open interest, whole chain	21,933 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 VICR'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	210.88	minus $777,179	220	220
21 Sep 2026	223.90	minus $116,746	240	195
28 Sep 2026	285.10	$1.75 million	300	220

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 VICR was bearish, paper trading.

Figure	Value
Side	Bearish at 45 trading days, no signal
Level above the close	382.65, the swing high of 30 Jun 2026, a close past it runs against the view
Level below the close	206.79, the swing low of 27 Aug 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 VICR sat at the 9th percentile of the model's 45 trading day ranking, paper trading.

Timeframe	Percentile	Side
10 trading days	11 of 100	Bearish
20 trading days	7 of 100	Bearish
45 trading days	9 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 VICR 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 VICR had carried no signal for 2 trading days, paper trading.

Trading day	Signal	45 day percentile
25 Sep 2026	None	9 of 100
24 Sep 2026	None	11 of 100
23 Sep 2026	Bearish	2 of 100
22 Sep 2026	None	13 of 100
21 Sep 2026	None	39 of 100
18 Sep 2026	None	43 of 100
17 Sep 2026	None	77 of 100
16 Sep 2026	None	39 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

VICR closed at 285.10 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
Last close	285.10
Change over 5 trading days	+27.3%
Change over 21 trading days	+40.0%
Change over 63 trading days	-22.3%
Change over 252 trading days	+446.8%
52 week high	382.65
52 week low	47.56
20 day moving average	213.80
50 day moving average	213.55
200 day moving average	212.42
RSI, 14 days	71

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

VICR reports next on 20 Oct 2026, a date confirmed by the company.

Figure	Value
Next report	20 Oct 2026, before the open
Date	Confirmed by the company
Move after the report of 21 Jul 2026	-7.0%
Move after the report of 22 Apr 2026	-1.8%
Move after the report of 20 Jan 2026	+3.0%
Move after the report of 29 Apr 2025	-23.1%

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

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Seasonality

In the 23 Septembers on record, VICR's average change was minus 2.6 percent, and it rose in 47.8 percent of them.

Month	Average change	Middle change	Share of years up	Years
September	-2.6%	-2.7%	47.8%	23
October	+5.5%	+4.6%	60.9%	23
November	+2.2%	+2.1%	52.2%	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 VICR's IV rank?: VICR's IV rank is 69 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.
What move are VICR options pricing?: On 28 Sep 2026, VICR options priced a move of 17.9 percent down and 19.2 percent up by 16 Oct 2026.
Where are VICR's call wall and put wall?: On 28 Sep 2026, VICR's call wall is the 300 strike and its put wall is the 220 strike.
What was the desk's latest view of VICR on the Free plan?: On 25 Sep 2026 the desk's view of VICR was bearish, paper trading.
When does VICR report earnings next?: VICR reports next on 20 Oct 2026, a date confirmed by the company.

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