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Alphabet-C (GOOG)Is protection on Alphabet-C cheap or dear today, where has the money been placed, how did the past month play out, and how did the judgments we filed on Alphabet-C settle? Updated after every close, with right and wrong judgments alike left on the record.
Data date 10.07 · close 344.95 (—) · −14.66% from the 52-week high
Where one-month protection (30-day implied volatility) sits within its past-year range, 0 the cheapest and 100 the dearest. Protection on Alphabet-C is now in the pricier part of the past year.
The 30-day sits 1.89 points above the one-year: something near-term is being priced on its own.
Centred on the previous close of 344.59, option prices imply 338.19 to 350.99 at this week's expiry. A close outside it at expiry means the option sellers lose.
Calls outtraded puts. It counts contracts, not direction: a put buyer may be insuring shares they own.
Levels from high to low, with distance from the close:
| Expected move, high | 350.99 | +1.75% | Centred on the previous close: the implied top at this week's expiry. |
| Call wall | 350 | +1.46% | The strike with the most call open interest: an upside target someone has already made a down payment on. |
| Close | 344.95 | ||
| Put wall | 340 | −1.43% | The strike with the most put open interest: protection someone already paid for. |
| Expected move, low | 338.19 | −1.96% | Centred on the previous close: the implied bottom at this week's expiry. |
| Flip level | 337.52 | −2.15% | Above it, dealer hedging damps moves; below it, hedging amplifies them. |
Data date 10.07. Updated once after each trading day's close; spot is the official close.
Close, flip level, put wall and call wall, day by day: which side of the walls price is on, and whether the walls moved.
One-year and 30-day implied vol, day by day. The short line jumping while the long line holds means only the near-term event is being repriced; the long line rising too means the whole story is.
Shown: the last 30 trading days. Earlier records are in Chapter V (walls) and Chapter VII (implied vol) of the options page.
No Alphabet-C contract made today's leaderboard.
Data date only. The board for every name is in Chapter IV of the options page.
Each judgment is written down with its test before the fact, settled by that test, and left standing when wrong. These are all the cases that name Alphabet-C, none removed. Open one for the original filing.
Cases for every name are in Chapter III of the options page. The ledger is append-only; a revision is a new row.
Today's read on this name is in the subscriber email; past issues go public the next day.