Financials

Block Inc (XYZ) options and signal

Figures as of 28 Sep 2026

XYZ is Block Inc, a Financials 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 call spread, 18 Dec	25 Sep
IV rank	18 of 100	28 Sep
At the money IV	40.9%	28 Sep
Priced move to 30 Oct	12.3% down, 14.0% up	28 Sep
Call wall and put wall	70 and 75	28 Sep
Signal and the desk's view	No signal, view bullish	25 Sep
Last close	73.31	28 Sep
Next report	9 Nov 2026	28 Sep

Trade Cards

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

Figure	Value
Signal	Neutral
Strategy	Bull call spread, debit
Legs	Buy the 75 call, Sell the 130 call
Expiry	18 Dec 2026, 84 days to expiry
Limit	A debit of at most $7.43
Probability of profit	34%, the option market's odds at expiry, from delta
Max loss	$743 per contract
Max profit	$4,757 per contract
Breakeven	82.43
IV rank at that expiry	45 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.

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Options Snapshot

XYZ's IV rank is 18 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
IV rank	18 of 100
At the money IV	40.9%, near month, 32 days
Put/call ratio, open interest	0.62
Call open interest, strikes captured near the price	192,000 contracts
Put open interest, strikes captured near the price	120,000 contracts
Cost to trade at the money	Fair, 17.7% of the option's mid price

IV rank is where the at the money IV sits among XYZ'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, XYZ options priced a move of 12.3 percent down and 14.0 percent up by 30 Oct 2026.

Expiry	Days	Down	Up	Range
2 Oct 2026	4	4.5%	4.6%	70.01 to 76.65
9 Oct 2026	11	7.3%	7.1%	67.99 to 78.49
23 Oct 2026	25	11.0%	10.8%	65.24 to 81.26
30 Oct 2026	32	12.3%	14.0%	64.31 to 83.61
20 Nov 2026	53	18.7%	19.4%	59.61 to 87.51
18 Dec 2026	81	21.3%	22.6%	57.71 to 89.91
19 Mar 2027	172	30.7%	34.6%	50.81 to 98.71

The range is one standard deviation either side of the close of 73.31, 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, XYZ's call wall is the 70 strike and its put wall is the 75 strike.

Figure	Value
Call wall, most open call gamma	70
Put wall, most open put gamma	75
Net dollar gamma, calls minus puts	$1.42 million
Total dollar gamma, both sides	$35.36 million
Close	73.31

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.

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Volatility History

On 28 Sep 2026, XYZ's at the money IV is 40.9 percent against 20 day realized volatility of 39.7 percent.

Figure	Value
At the money IV	40.9%
Realized volatility, 20 trading days	39.7%
Realized volatility, 60 trading days	37.1%
IV against its own weekly record	Low, in the bottom fifth
Weekly readings on record	80, from 24 Jan 2025
Weeks the price moved more than the one week priced move	29.1% of 79 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, XYZ's at the money IV runs from 46.4 percent at 4 days to 48.9 percent at 172 days.

Days to expiry	At the money IV
4	46.4%
11	42.3%
18	42.1%
25	41.0%
39	51.5%
53	48.9%
81	46.8%
172	48.9%

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 32 day expiry, XYZ's IV ten percent below the price sits 2.5 points above at the money IV.

Strike area	Implied volatility	Against at the money
10% below the price	43.4%	+2.5 points
At the money	40.9%	0.0 points
10% above the price	45.4%	+4.5 points

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Volatility Surface

On 28 Sep 2026, XYZ's surface spans 10 expiries out to 172 days, with IV from 39.8 to 63.6 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	96
Lowest IV among them	39.8%
Highest IV among them	63.6%

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Expiry Ladder

On 28 Sep 2026, XYZ 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	46.4%	12,198	9,000
9 Oct 2026	11	42.3%	1,663	1,734
16 Oct 2026	18	42.1%	9,986	7,018
23 Oct 2026	25	41.0%	583	307
30 Oct 2026	32	40.9%	543	353
6 Nov 2026	39	51.5%	242	130
20 Nov 2026	53	48.9%	28,599	33,078
18 Dec 2026	81	46.8%	73,175	19,077
15 Jan 2027	109	45.2%	50,766	36,939
19 Mar 2027	172	48.9%	14,107	12,363

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

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Strike Table

On 28 Sep 2026, XYZ's largest open interest sits at the 70 strike, with 39,859 contracts across the captured expiries.

Strike	Call open interest	Put open interest	Total
70	26,108	13,751	39,859
95	28,227	579	28,806
90	22,639	1,601	24,240
65	2,992	19,042	22,034
80	10,308	7,106	17,414
72.5	1,793	14,662	16,455

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Since Yesterday

From 25 Sep 2026 to 28 Sep 2026, XYZ's at the money IV moved from 42.0 percent to 40.9 percent.

Figure	25 Sep	28 Sep	Change
At the money IV	42.0%	40.9%	-1.1 points
Open interest, strikes captured near the price	295,728	311,861	+16,133
Put/call ratio, open interest	0.60	0.63	+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, 18,416 XYZ option contracts traded, 0.7 times its own recent average.

Figure	Value
Calls traded	9,128
Puts traded	9,288
Against its recent average	0.7 times
Busier than	10 of its last 20 trading days
Open interest, whole chain	382,244 contracts
Volume to open interest	0.05
Unusual volume flag	Yes, 2 contracts traded well above open interest
Largest flagged contract	The 57.5 put expiring 19 Mar, 524 traded against 246 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 XYZ'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	79.07	$8.78 million	82	70
21 Sep 2026	77.91	$7.08 million	70	70
28 Sep 2026	73.31	$1.42 million	70	75

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 XYZ was bullish, paper trading.

Figure	Value
Side	Bullish at 45 trading days, no signal
Level above the close	74.36, the swing high of 23 Sep 2026
Level below the close	73.23, the swing low of 28 Sep 2026, a close past it runs against the view
The chart	Sits against 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.

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Rank by Timeframe

On 25 Sep 2026 XYZ sat at the 88th percentile of the model's 45 trading day ranking, paper trading.

Timeframe	Percentile	Side
10 trading days	90 of 100	Bullish
20 trading days	93 of 100	Bullish
45 trading days	88 of 100	Bullish

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, 3 of 3 timeframes put XYZ 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 XYZ had carried no signal for at least 18 trading days, paper trading.

Trading day	Signal	45 day percentile
25 Sep 2026	None	88 of 100
24 Sep 2026	None	83 of 100
23 Sep 2026	None	57 of 100
22 Sep 2026	None	36 of 100
21 Sep 2026	None	70 of 100
18 Sep 2026	None	78 of 100
17 Sep 2026	None	68 of 100
16 Sep 2026	None	43 of 100

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Sector Split

On 25 Sep 2026, 63 of 135 Financials names were bullish and 32 were bearish, paper trading.

Sector	Names	Bullish	Bearish	Neutral
Financials	135	63	32	40

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Price Chart

XYZ closed at 73.31 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
Last close	73.31
Change over 5 trading days	-5.9%
Change over 21 trading days	-13.6%
Change over 63 trading days	-6.0%
Change over 252 trading days	-0.5%
52 week high	86.92
52 week low	48.21
20 day moving average	78.50
50 day moving average	80.02
200 day moving average	69.93
RSI, 14 days	36

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

XYZ reports next on 9 Nov 2026, a date worked out from past quarters.

Figure	Value
Next report	9 Nov 2026, after the close
Date	Worked out from past quarters
Move after the report of 5 Aug 2026	-6.2%
Move after the report of 30 Apr 2026	+1.8%
Move after the report of 28 Jan 2026	-3.1%
Move after the report of 1 May 2025	-20.4%

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

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Short Volume

On 25 Sep 2026, 56.5 percent of XYZ's reported volume at the covered venues was marked short.

Figure	Value
Short sale share, 25 Sep	56.5%
Five day average	57.1%
52 week median	51.3%

Short sale volume counts trades marked short at the covered venues, mostly off exchange. It is not the same as short interest.

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Seasonality

In the 10 Septembers on record, XYZ's average change was minus 4.2 percent, and it rose in 50.0 percent of them.

Month	Average change	Middle change	Share of years up	Years
September	-4.2%	-2.1%	50.0%	10
October	+1.3%	+2.1%	50.0%	10
November	+12.8%	+12.7%	70.0%	10

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 3 headlines naming XYZ in the 3 days to 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
Headlines in the window	3
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 XYZ's IV rank?: XYZ's IV rank is 18 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.
What move are XYZ options pricing?: On 28 Sep 2026, XYZ options priced a move of 12.3 percent down and 14.0 percent up by 30 Oct 2026.
Where are XYZ's call wall and put wall?: On 28 Sep 2026, XYZ's call wall is the 70 strike and its put wall is the 75 strike.
What was the latest Trade Card for XYZ on the Free plan?: On 25 Sep 2026 the Trade Card for XYZ was a bull call spread expiring 18 Dec 2026, paper trading.
When does XYZ report earnings next?: XYZ reports next on 9 Nov 2026, a date worked out from past quarters.

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