Information Technology

VeriSign Inc (VRSN) options and signal

Figures as of 28 Sep 2026

VRSN is VeriSign 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	33.7%	28 Sep
Priced move to 16 Oct	7.0% down, 7.3% up	28 Sep
Call wall and put wall	300 and 260	28 Sep
Signal and the desk's view	No signal, view neutral	25 Sep
Last close	282.07	28 Sep
Next report	22 Oct 2026	28 Sep

Options Snapshot

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

Figure	Value
IV rank	90 of 100
At the money IV	33.7%, near month, 18 days
Put/call ratio, open interest	0.07
Call open interest, strikes captured near the price	11,100 contracts
Put open interest, strikes captured near the price	800 contracts
Cost to trade at the money	Fair, 33.8% of the option's mid price

IV rank is where the at the money IV sits among VRSN'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, VRSN options priced a move of 7.0 percent down and 7.3 percent up by 16 Oct 2026.

Expiry	Days	Down	Up	Range
16 Oct 2026	18	7.0%	7.3%	262.37 to 302.57
20 Nov 2026	53	13.4%	14.1%	244.27 to 321.97
18 Dec 2026	81	15.6%	16.0%	238.07 to 327.27
15 Jan 2027	109	16.7%	18.9%	235.07 to 335.37
19 Mar 2027	172	22.1%	24.8%	219.67 to 351.97

The range is one standard deviation either side of the close of 282.07, 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, VRSN's call wall is the 300 strike and its put wall is the 260 strike.

Figure	Value
Call wall, most open call gamma	300
Put wall, most open put gamma	260
Flip strike, where net gamma changes sign	273.34
Net dollar gamma, calls minus puts	$5.89 million
Total dollar gamma, both sides	$6.74 million
Close	282.07

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.

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, VRSN's at the money IV is 33.7 percent against 20 day realized volatility of 25.0 percent.

Figure	Value
At the money IV	33.7%
Realized volatility, 20 trading days	25.0%
Realized volatility, 60 trading days	30.1%
IV against its own weekly record	High, in the top fifth
Weekly readings on record	855, from 8 Jan 2010
Weeks the price moved more than the one week priced move	24.6% 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, VRSN's at the money IV runs from 33.7 percent at 18 days to 35.4 percent at 172 days.

Days to expiry	At the money IV
18	33.7%
53	36.2%
81	38.1%
109	33.2%
172	35.4%

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, VRSN's IV ten percent below the price sits 4.2 points above at the money IV.

Strike area	Implied volatility	Against at the money
10% below the price	40.3%	+4.2 points
At the money	36.2%	0.0 points
10% above the price	34.8%	-1.4 points

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Volatility Surface

On 28 Sep 2026, VRSN's surface spans 5 expiries out to 172 days, with IV from 20.9 to 50.7 percent near the price.

Figure	Value
Expiries captured	5
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	29
Lowest IV among them	20.9%
Highest IV among them	50.7%

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Expiry Ladder

On 28 Sep 2026, VRSN has 5 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	33.7%	7,098	174
20 Nov 2026	53	36.2%	2,227	372
18 Dec 2026	81	38.1%	1,287	117
15 Jan 2027	109	33.2%	317	72
19 Mar 2027	172	35.4%	151	65

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

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Strike Table

On 28 Sep 2026, VRSN's largest open interest sits at the 330 strike, with 2,453 contracts across the captured expiries.

Strike	Call open interest	Put open interest	Total
330	2,449	4	2,453
310	2,221	24	2,245
300	2,081	35	2,116
340	1,433	0	1,433
390	850	0	850
320	705	1	706

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Since Yesterday

From 25 Sep 2026 to 28 Sep 2026, VRSN's at the money IV moved from 32.6 percent to 33.7 percent.

Figure	25 Sep	28 Sep	Change
At the money IV	32.6%	33.7%	+1.1 points
Open interest, strikes captured near the price	11,700	11,880	+180
Put/call ratio, open interest	0.07	0.07	+0.00

Open interest changes cannot identify buyers or sellers.

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Changed Hands

On 28 Sep 2026, 2,721 VRSN option contracts traded, 1.1 times its own recent average.

Figure	Value
Calls traded	1,973
Puts traded	748
Against its recent average	1.1 times
Busier than	12 of its last 20 trading days
Open interest, whole chain	12,204 contracts
Volume to open interest	0.22
Unusual volume flag	Yes, 1 contract traded well above open interest
Largest flagged contract	The 310 call expiring 18 Dec, 1,300 traded against 264 open

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 VRSN'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	287.63	$6.73 million	290	280
21 Sep 2026	308.18	$8.9 million	310	260
28 Sep 2026	282.07	$5.89 million	300	260

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 VRSN was neutral, paper trading.

Figure	Value
Side	Neutral at 45 trading days, no signal
Level above the close	293.52, the swing high of 17 Sep 2026
Level below the close	279.04, the swing low of 8 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 VRSN sat at the 29th percentile of the model's 45 trading day ranking, paper trading.

Timeframe	Percentile	Side
10 trading days	42 of 100	Neutral
20 trading days	45 of 100	Neutral
45 trading days	29 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 VRSN'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

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Signal History

On 25 Sep 2026 VRSN had carried no signal for at least 18 trading days, paper trading.

Trading day	Signal	45 day percentile
25 Sep 2026	None	29 of 100
24 Sep 2026	None	28 of 100
23 Sep 2026	None	43 of 100
22 Sep 2026	None	30 of 100
21 Sep 2026	None	9 of 100
18 Sep 2026	None	11 of 100
17 Sep 2026	None	22 of 100
16 Sep 2026	None	34 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

VRSN closed at 282.07 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
Last close	282.07
Change over 5 trading days	-8.5%
Change over 21 trading days	-4.3%
Change over 63 trading days	+11.7%
Change over 252 trading days	-0.6%
52 week high	312.48
52 week low	208.86
20 day moving average	293.22
50 day moving average	287.90
200 day moving average	265.05
RSI, 14 days	41

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

VRSN reports next on 22 Oct 2026, a date confirmed by the company.

Figure	Value
Next report	22 Oct 2026, after the close
Date	Confirmed by the company
Move after the report of 24 Apr 2026	-0.5%
Move after the report of 22 Jan 2026	-0.4%
Move after the report of 24 Apr 2025	+8.0%
Move after the report of 6 Feb 2025	+0.6%

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

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Public Filings

2 of the 10 fund managers the desk tracks list VRSN among the top holdings of their latest quarterly report.

Fund manager
Berkshire Hathaway
Renaissance Technologies

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

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Short Volume

On 25 Sep 2026, 49.5 percent of VRSN's reported volume at the covered venues was marked short.

Figure	Value
Short sale share, 25 Sep	49.5%
Five day average	39.9%
52 week median	51.2%
Short interest, share of shares outstanding	2.2% at the 15 Sep 2026 settlement
Days to cover	3.0

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, VRSN's average change was minus 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%	+0.9%	52.2%	23
October	+2.8%	+2.4%	65.2%	23
November	+5.1%	+4.8%	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 1 headline naming VRSN in the 3 days to 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
Headlines in the window	1
Latest	28 Sep 2026

The titles are in the Headlines window, with the time each was published.

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Questions

What is VRSN's IV rank?: VRSN's IV rank is 90 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.
What move are VRSN options pricing?: On 28 Sep 2026, VRSN options priced a move of 7.0 percent down and 7.3 percent up by 16 Oct 2026.
Where are VRSN's call wall and put wall?: On 28 Sep 2026, VRSN's call wall is the 300 strike and its put wall is the 260 strike.
What was the desk's latest view of VRSN on the Free plan?: On 25 Sep 2026 the desk's view of VRSN was neutral, paper trading.
When does VRSN report earnings next?: VRSN reports next on 22 Oct 2026, a date confirmed by the company.

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