Seventeen names where option premium stood out at September expiry

中文标题

九月期权到期日十七个期权权利金表现突出的标的

Saxo Bank09/21/2026updated 10/17/2026

Multiple economies

Citable research brief

Core conclusion · Tlines extraction

A Saxo Bank screen of option premium at the September 2026 expiry shows iShares MSCI Brazil ETF (EWZ) with an IV rank of 91 and percentile of 99, ahead of Brazil's October election. Nvidia (NVDA) sat at the floor of its one-year range with IV rank 1.1 and percentile 0.4, with no scheduled catalyst before November. The notes stress that IV rank measures the price of optionality, not direction, and that a single day's reading cannot capture liquidity or term structure.

Institution: Saxo Bank
Published: 09/21/2026
Research topic: EUR/USD
Time horizon: November 2026

EUR/USD · EURUSD

Key arguments

High IV rank means option premium is expensive relative to the past year, not that the underlying will fall; it can stay high or rise further.
Low IV rank reflects the absence of scheduled catalysts and does not make options a bargain, as implied volatility can remain low for long periods.
A gap between IV rank and IV percentile reveals whether one spike set the range or today's reading is historically elevated.
The screen is a filter for further chain-level analysis, not a source of trade signals; liquidity and expiry structure must be checked separately.

Key numbers

EWZ IV rank: 91
EWZ IV percentile: 99
NVDA IV rank: 1.1
Inwit IV: 78.4
SPY IV rank: 8

Main risks

The screen is based on a single day's snapshot, and the data store began only on 17 September 2026, so no momentum measure exists yet.
Comparisons across the September expiry for euro-zone names are distorted because the previous reading often came from a contract expiring that same day.
The screen does not measure liquidity, bid-offer width or open interest, so some readings may not be tradeable.

Corresponding source evidence

Brazil’s general election is scheduled to hold its first round on 4 October, with a runoff on 25 October if required (Source: Brazil’s official electoral calendar).
Comparisons across the 18 September expiry are awkward too: for most euro-zone names the previous reading came off a contract expiring that same day, so a jump across that boundary should not be read as a volatility event without corroborating news.
We will cover that route in the webinar Using AI and OpenAPI to elevate your Saxo platform experience on 4 November 2026 at 13:00 CET. · November 2026

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