DELL · expected move by expiry
Dell Technologies is priced to move 8.6% by 2026-Sep-18.
Options price a ±8.64% move (about $49.00) by 2026-Sep-18 (Fri), a range of 508.48 to 606.49 from the last price of 567.29. Max pain for that expiry is 420.00.
DELL
Dell Technologies Inc.
Last
567.29 +60.67 (12.0%)
Next expiry move
±8.64% 6 days
Vol regime
Low
Put / call
1.24
Weekend
Fetched 2026-09-12, 06:48:00 PM ET
Fetched 2026-09-12, 06:48:00 PM ET
expected range last price 567.29 max painAxis 406 to 669, shared by every row
Expiry
Expected range (1 SD)
Expected move
Max pain
Odds inside
2026-Sep-18Fri, 6 days
508.48
606.49
Expected move±8.64%±$49.00
Max pain420.0026.0% below last price
Odds of closing inside73%put/call 1.24
2026-Sep-25Fri, 13 days
490.30
618.61
Expected move±11.31%±$64.16
Max pain500.0011.9% below last price
Odds of closing inside68%put/call 1.89
2026-Oct-02Fri, 20 days
471.09
633.64
Expected move±14.33%±$81.27
Max pain495.0012.7% below last price
Odds of closing inside69%put/call 1.42
2026-Oct-09Fri, 27 days
464.03
655.24
Expected move±16.85%±$95.61
Max pain500.0011.9% below last price
Odds of closing inside69%put/call 1.82
2026-Oct-16Fri, 34 days
438.70
653.02
Expected move±18.89%±$107.16
Max pain470.0017.1% below last price
Odds of closing inside69%put/call 1.01
Options flow, nearest expiry
Caution
Bearish - options flow points to downside Score -0.52 on a -1 to +1 scale.
Key levels from open interest
560.00 / 570.00
Heaviest put open interest sits at 560.00 and heaviest call open interest at 570.00. Price tends to gravitate toward large open interest into expiry.
Setup
Trend Ignition
Read from implied volatility, momentum and breakout signals across the chain. Descriptive, not a forecast.
DELL max pain by expiry
Dell Technologies's max pain for 2026-Sep-18 is 420.00, 26.0% below the last price. It is the strike at which the calls and puts open for that expiry would pay out the least in total, computed from open interest. Price sometimes drifts toward it in the final session because of dealer hedging; treat it as a reference level, not a target. How max pain is calculated.
| Expiry | Max pain | From last price | Put/call |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-Sep-18 Fri | 420.00 | -26.0% | 1.24 |
| 2026-Sep-25 Fri | 500.00 | -11.9% | 1.89 |
| 2026-Oct-02 Fri | 495.00 | -12.7% | 1.42 |
| 2026-Oct-09 Fri | 500.00 | -11.9% | 1.82 |
| 2026-Oct-16 Fri | 470.00 | -17.1% | 1.01 |
DELL put/call ratio
The put/call ratio for the 2026-Sep-18 expiry is 1.24: above 1, so puts outnumber calls on that date. Readings well below 0.7 are often read as complacent and above 1.2 as fearful, and extremes are sometimes taken as contrarian signals, but on index products like SPY a high ratio is normal because puts are bought as insurance. It is a sentiment gauge, not a direction call. What the ratio measures and what it does not.
Track record, 11 settled readings
9% inside
DELL closed inside its published expected range 9% of the time across every reading stored since 2026-09-04. One standard deviation should land near 68%; higher means the options were rich.
Realised vs expected
150%
The realised move averaged 16.40% against an expected ±10.96%. Breaches: 10 through the top, 0 through the bottom.
By days to expiry
8 to 14 days: 0% inside (5)
Readings grouped by how far before expiry they were taken. Machine-readable: /api/history/DELL; sitewide: track record.
Reading the DELL expected move table
Each row is one expiry. The shaded band is the one-standard-deviation range the option chain implies for DELL on that date: the market gives roughly a two-in-three chance that DELL closes inside it and a one-in-three chance it closes outside. The black tick is the last traded price, 567.29. The diamond is max pain, the strike where option holders would collect the least if the stock settled there.
The range widens with time because uncertainty compounds with the square root of time: the 2026-Oct-16 range (±18.89%) is wider than the 2026-Sep-18 range (±8.64%) even though the daily volatility behind both is the same. Read the methodology for the formulas, or the guide to what the expected move means in practice.
Figures are derived from delayed public option data and recalculated through the trading day. Nothing on this page is investment advice. Machine-readable version: /api/expected-move/DELL. Every ticker the site tracks is listed at /stocks.
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