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Jury direction, options amplitude

Sessions

11

1 passed

Mean return

-1.42%

Open to close, per session

vs S&P 500

-1.37%

t = -2.76

Verdict

no verdict yet

11 of the 60 sessions before the first reading. No verdict until then.

The hypothesis, as registered

Black-Scholes cannot say which way a stock goes — on a one-session horizon it gives every stock a hair under fifty-fifty. What it can read, inverted on yesterday's option prices, is how far the market expects the stock to travel. If the jury's direction carries any information at all, it is worth most where the expected move is largest; if it carries none, this strategy will show the widest swings and no mean.

The rule

Among the finalists the product's own rule approves (two models bullish), take the one with the largest options-implied one-session move: at-the-money implied volatility from yesterday's close, nearest expiry at least seven days out, times the square root of one trading day. Both legs must be quoted with open interest. Abstains when no approved finalist has a readable chain.

Registered on 2026-09-22. Neither text has changed since, and neither will: a strategy that needs amending is retired and a new one registered in its place.

Session by session

Newest first. The numbers in the middle column are the ones the rule actually read that morning. Losing days stay.

SessionPickWhat the rule readReturnvs S&P 500
2026-10-14WULFTeraWulf Inc.options-implied move +5.31% · ATM implied vol +84.28% · expiry 2026-10-23 · models bullish 2 · final score 52.1pendingpending
2026-10-13NVTSNavitas Semiconductor Corporationoptions-implied move +6.12% · ATM implied vol +97.20% · expiry 2026-10-23 · models bullish 2 · final score 53.5no price found—
2026-10-12XRPNArmada Acquisition Corp. IIoptions-implied move +15.44% · ATM implied vol +245.03% · expiry 2026-11-20 · models bullish 3 · final score 60.2+1.38%+1.47%
2026-10-09COHRCoherent Corp.options-implied move +6.95% · ATM implied vol +110.34% · expiry 2026-10-16 · models bullish 2 · final score 56.7no price found—
2026-10-08APLDApplied Digital Corporationoptions-implied move +7.61% · ATM implied vol +120.78% · expiry 2026-10-16 · models bullish 3 · final score 62.9-2.08%-1.96%
2026-10-07FCELFuelCell Energy, Inc.options-implied move +10.25% · ATM implied vol +162.79% · expiry 2026-10-16 · models bullish 2 · final score 54.0-3.49%-3.68%
2026-10-06CRMLCritical Metals Corp.options-implied move +7.22% · ATM implied vol +114.64% · expiry 2026-10-16 · models bullish 3 · final score 67.3-1.08%-1.20%
2026-10-05BFLYButterfly Network, Inc. Class Aoptions-implied move +8.11% · ATM implied vol +128.68% · expiry 2026-10-16 · models bullish 2 · final score 61.2no price found—
2026-10-02LWLGLightwave Logic, Inc.options-implied move +6.40% · ATM implied vol +101.54% · expiry 2026-10-16 · models bullish 2 · final score 62.0+0.71%+0.83%
2026-10-01NBISNebius Group N.V.options-implied move +5.19% · ATM implied vol +82.45% · expiry 2026-10-09 · models bullish 3 · final score 69.4-1.61%-1.56%
2026-09-30MRAMEverspin Technologies, Inc.options-implied move +6.27% · ATM implied vol +99.47% · expiry 2026-10-16 · models bullish 2 · final score 62.5-1.76%-1.26%
2026-09-29IONQIonQ, Inc.options-implied move +4.89% · ATM implied vol +77.60% · expiry 2026-10-09 · models bullish 3 · final score 69.9-4.13%-3.78%
2026-09-28GENIGenius Sports Limitedoptions-implied move +8.10% · ATM implied vol +128.55% · expiry 2026-10-16 · models bullish 3 · final score 68.9-2.69%-2.33%
2026-09-25INFQInfleqtion, Inc.options-implied move +6.21% · ATM implied vol +98.61% · expiry 2026-10-02 · models bullish 3 · final score 70.0+0.28%-0.06%
2026-09-24TRLVTrulieve Cannabis Corp. Subordinate Voting Sharesoptions-implied move +5.46% · ATM implied vol +86.66% · expiry 2026-10-16 · models bullish 2 · final score 64.5-1.13%-1.54%
2026-09-23GRALGRAIL, Inc.options-implied move +13.97% · ATM implied vol +221.73% · expiry 2026-10-16 · models bullish 2 · final score 72.3no price found—
2026-09-22passedNo finalist had a readable option chain this morning.——

Best session +1.38%, worst -4.13%. Over this few sessions the mean is mostly the sum of its two or three largest days, which is the whole reason the verdict is read only after 60, 120, 250, 500 sessions and frozen in between.

This is not investment advice. Tickbird is an automated experiment. It publishes a general analysis, not a personal recommendation, and it makes no promise about any outcome. Past results do not predict future ones. Never risk money you cannot afford to lose.