Cash-Secured Put Entries on Mega Caps
Cash-Secured Put3 trades pass on GE
- Annualized return
- 4.4% to 43.8%
- Probability of profit
- 72.8% to 91.5%
General Electric Co · Industrials
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GE closed at $309.56 on Oct 2, 2026 with 30-day implied volatility of 37.6%. That is in the upper half of its one-year range (IV rank 56), so premiums are somewhat richer than usual for GE. Measured by IV percentile, IV is higher than 72% of the past year's readings. Options expiring Oct 30 (28 days out) price a one standard deviation move of about $32.57, or 10.5%.
The price is below both its 50-day (-9.5%) and 200-day (-4.3%) moving averages. It is 18.8% below its 52-week high and 13.3% above its 52-week low. The 14-day RSI of 35.0 is between 30 and 70, neither overbought nor oversold. The 14-day average true range is $8.68, about 2.8% of the price, a measure of a typical day's range.
Option volume at the close (19.3K contracts) was 1.7x its average, busier than usual. A beta of 1.23 means GE has tended to move about 1.2 times as much as the broad market. 1 of our preset screen found trades on GE at the close, led by Cash-Secured Put Entries on Mega Caps with 3 trades.
Expected move = price x at-the-money IV x the square root of (days to expiration / 365), a one standard deviation range. The straddle is the at-the-money call plus put, the market's own price for a move. Compare expected moves across stocks.
| Expiration | IV | Expected move | 1 SD range | Straddle |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 9, 20267 days | 29.2% | ±$12.50 (4.0%) | $297.06 to $322.06 | $9.98 |
| Oct 30, 202628 days | 38.0% | ±$32.57 (10.5%) | $276.99 to $342.13 | $25.95 |
| Nov 20, 202649 days | 35.4% | ±$40.20 (13.0%) | $269.36 to $349.76 | $32.00 |
| Dec 18, 202677 days | 34.0% | ±$48.40 (15.6%) | $261.16 to $357.96 | $38.48 |
Each expiration has its own implied volatility, and short-dated IV reacts more to near-term events, so the nearest expiration can differ a lot from the 30-day figure.
Counts and ranges for GE from our preset scans at the last close. Open a preset in the app to see each trade with its strikes, prices, and risk, refreshed intraday. Income strategies show annualized return; the rest show return on risk.
3 trades pass on GE
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