ALGTAllegiant Travel Company
ALGT Options Overview
IV is elevated with bullish flow. No clear edge detected.
REWARDS
RISK ANALYSIS
ALGT Gamma Walls
Value
Is IV priced right?
Measures whether options are cheap, fair, or rich relative to historical and peer
IV Rank 82.9% — elevated vs history
IV/HV 1.08x — IV premium over HV
Sector percentile 86% — above sector median
Front/Back 0.90x — contango
Put/Call IV 1.16x — elevated
ATM IV 59.2% — normal range
Effective IV 105.5% (ATM 59.2% + spread 23.2% + bias) — expensive
Total drag 30.38% (spread 23.17% + slippage 7.21%) — high friction
Vega efficiency 5.00 (vega 11.591 / spread 23.17%) — acceptable
Sentiment
Bullish or bearish?
Analyzes
Conviction-weighted: +66% (strong bullish) — Raw: +50%
|OI skew| 35.5% — call-heavy
Vol skew +80.0%, OI skew +35.5% — aligned
0-DTE 0%, far-OTM 15%, avg DTE 30
OI change +0.0% (5d) — stable
ITM: +0%, ATM: +100%, OTM: +46% — strong bullish (ITM/ATM divergent)
Sector P/C percentile 15% — very bullish vs sector
Activity
Unusual activity?
Detects volume surges,
Volume 0.2x avg — normal
Vol/OI 1.3% — normal turnover
1 day(s) elevated — may be one-day event
OI change +55.5% (5d) — building
Sector activity percentile 44% — neutral vs sector
Large trade volume 0% — mostly retail
Aggressive execution 26% — patient
Conviction +66 (bullish) — strong conviction
Liquidity
Can I trade efficiently?
Evaluates
Spread 23.2% — wide
OI 4,657 — thin
Volume 60/day — thin
$1.16 to cross — expensive
0 liquid strikes — limited options
Sector spread percentile 91% — much wider than sector
Depth 72.5 contracts (bid:39.9 ask:32.6) — thin
Avg slippage 7.21% — poor
Timing
Is now a good time?
Considers earnings proximity,
Slope -10.0% — contango
IV percentile 83% — seller opportunity
IV kink -4.2pts — no clear event
θ/ν ratio 137.49 — favors income trades
3 liquid expirations — flexible
safe window: No events detected
Spread ratio 1.00x — stable
Flow +66% @ 82% consistency — STRONG directional (bullish)
Score 30 (ITM 20% + inst 0%) — retail dominated
Directional Strategy Fit
For educational purposes only. Not investment advice.
The Options Desk tracks the move options price into every US earnings report the week of Aug 31, next to how much each stock has actually moved on its past prints — plus the SPY, QQQ and IWM expected ranges and the gamma walls that box them in.