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VOOG options and signal

Figures as of 28 Sep 2026

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
Priced move to 16 Oct	6.2% down, 4.0% up	28 Sep
Call wall and put wall	87 and 85	28 Sep
Signal and the desk's view	No signal, view bullish	25 Sep
Last close	85.46	28 Sep

Options Snapshot

VOOG's at the money implied volatility is 19.0 percent on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
IV rank	Not stated, 0 weeks of record
At the money IV	19.0%, near month, 18 days
Put/call ratio, open interest	0.14
Call open interest, strikes captured near the price	4,280 contracts
Put open interest, strikes captured near the price	601 contracts
Cost to trade at the money	Wide, 41.9% of the option's mid price

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, VOOG options priced a move of 6.2 percent down and 4.0 percent up by 16 Oct 2026.

Expiry	Days	Down	Up	Range
16 Oct 2026	18	6.2%	4.0%	80.13 to 88.88
20 Nov 2026	53	8.8%	6.9%	77.91 to 91.32
18 Dec 2026	81	10.4%	9.3%	76.53 to 93.43
19 Mar 2027	172	14.4%	16.8%	73.16 to 99.86

The range is one standard deviation either side of the close of 85.46, as the option prices imply it.

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

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Gamma Map

On 28 Sep 2026, VOOG's call wall is the 87 strike and its put wall is the 85 strike.

Figure	Value
Call wall, most open call gamma	87
Put wall, most open put gamma	85
Net dollar gamma, calls minus puts	$1.52 million
Total dollar gamma, both sides	$1.82 million
Close	85.46

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, VOOG's at the money IV is 19.0 percent against 20 day realized volatility of 14.2 percent.

Figure	Value
At the money IV	19.0%
Realized volatility, 20 trading days	14.2%
Realized volatility, 60 trading days	17.0%

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, VOOG's at the money IV runs from 19.0 percent at 18 days to 23.1 percent at 172 days.

Days to expiry	At the money IV
18	19.0%
53	23.1%
81	24.0%
172	23.1%

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, VOOG's IV ten percent below the price sits 4.1 points above at the money IV.

Strike area	Implied volatility	Against at the money
10% below the price	27.2%	+4.1 points
At the money	23.1%	0.0 points
10% above the price	22.6%	-0.5 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, VOOG's surface spans 4 expiries out to 172 days, with IV from 3.1 to 47.5 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	65
Lowest IV among them	3.1%
Highest IV among them	47.5%

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Expiry Ladder

On 28 Sep 2026, VOOG 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	19.0%	1,394	136
20 Nov 2026	53	23.1%	94	71
18 Dec 2026	81	24.0%	2,224	181
19 Mar 2027	172	23.1%	564	213

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

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Strike Table

On 28 Sep 2026, VOOG's largest open interest sits at the 90 strike, with 556 contracts across the captured expiries.

Strike	Call open interest	Put open interest	Total
90	554	2	556
88	539	1	540
87	478	3	481
85	272	66	338
80	216	41	257
95	254	0	254

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Changed Hands

On 28 Sep 2026, 980 VOOG option contracts traded.

Figure	Value
Calls traded	581
Puts traded	399
Open interest, whole chain	4,894 contracts
Volume to open interest	0.20
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 16 trading days of VOOG'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	84.70	$1.99 million	85	80
26 Aug 2026	83.34	$1.16 million	90	80
28 Sep 2026	85.46	$1.52 million	87	85

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 VOOG was bullish, paper trading.

Figure	Value
Side	Bullish at 45 trading days, no signal
Level above the close	86.60, the swing high of 22 Sep 2026
Level below the close	84.73, the swing low of 24 Sep 2026, a close past it runs against the view
The chart	Sits with the view
Strategy family	Bull call spread (buy a call spread)
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 VOOG sat at the 83rd percentile of the model's 45 trading day ranking, paper trading.

Timeframe	Percentile	Side
10 trading days	100 of 100	Bullish
20 trading days	99 of 100	Bullish
45 trading days	83 of 100	Bullish

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 VOOG on the bullish side, paper trading.

Group	Timeframes	Side	On that side
Near	10 day, 20 day	Bullish	2 of 2
Long	45 day	Bullish	1 of 1

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Signal History

On 25 Sep 2026 VOOG had carried no signal for 1 trading day, paper trading.

Trading day	Signal	45 day percentile
25 Sep 2026	None	83 of 100

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Sector Split

On 25 Sep 2026, 4 of 6 Unclassified names were bullish and 1 were bearish, paper trading.

Sector	Names	Bullish	Bearish	Neutral
Unclassified	6	4	1	1

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Price Chart

VOOG closed at 85.46 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
Last close	85.46
Change over 5 trading days	-0.9%
Change over 21 trading days	+1.0%
Change over 63 trading days	+4.9%
Change over 252 trading days	+19.3%
52 week high	86.60
52 week low	64.99
20 day moving average	84.31
50 day moving average	83.52
200 day moving average	78.03
RSI, 14 days	57

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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Seasonality

In the 15 Septembers on record, VOOG's average change was minus 1.5 percent, and it rose in 46.7 percent of them.

Month	Average change	Middle change	Share of years up	Years
September	-1.5%	-0.1%	46.7%	15
October	+2.0%	+2.8%	60.0%	15
November	+2.9%	+2.1%	87.5%	16

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 VOOG's IV rank?: VOOG's at the money implied volatility is 19.0 percent on 28 Sep 2026.
What move are VOOG options pricing?: On 28 Sep 2026, VOOG options priced a move of 6.2 percent down and 4.0 percent up by 16 Oct 2026.
Where are VOOG's call wall and put wall?: On 28 Sep 2026, VOOG's call wall is the 87 strike and its put wall is the 85 strike.
What was the desk's latest view of VOOG on the Free plan?: On 25 Sep 2026 the desk's view of VOOG was bullish, paper trading.

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