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May 26, 2026

IV Rank Tool

Is Your Ticker's Volatility Rich, or Cheap?

IV Rank measures where a ticker's 30-day implied volatility sits in its one-year range, from 0 (the cheapest it's been) to 100 (the richest). The IV Rank tool finds every past day at a similar rank and shows you what price did next.

A raw IV number tells you almost nothing on its own. Is 35% implied volatility high? For a sleepy index, very. For a meme stock mid-squeeze, it might be the calmest the options have been all year. The only way to read IV is against the ticker's own history, and that is exactly what IV Rank does: it places today's 30-day IV on a 0 to 100 scale, where 0 is the lowest it has been over the past year and 100 is the highest.

Knowing the rank is half the job. The other half is conditional: my ticker's IV Rank is up here (or down there), what has price historically done from a reading like this? Rich volatility and cheap volatility set up very different trades, and the forward distribution is the part most traders never actually measure.

What the Tool Shows You

A live IV Rank read, a 45-day forward price cone, a Chance of Move bar graph, a full sortable event log, and a watchlist scan of where rank sits across the board.

Signal

Live IV Rank Read

One glance tells you where today's implied volatility sits in its one-year range, from 0 to 100.

Headline

45-Day Projected Price Cone

Projects the next 45 days by applying forward returns from past days at a similar IV rank.

Probability

Probability Graph

How often price rose or fell by a set percentage after similar IV-rank readings.

Metric

Where IV Sits in Its Range

IV Rank places today's 30-day implied volatility in its one-year range: 0 is the cheapest it has been, 100 the richest.

Scan

Auto-Detection

The tool scans the market and auto-highlights stocks at the richest and cheapest IV ranks today.

Log

Historical Log

The Historical Log displays every past instance at a similar IV rank to today's.

How Traders are using the IV Rank Tool

1

Spot the IV-rank extreme

Check if any stocks on your watchlist or in the market are at a rich or cheap IV rank today.

2

Check the projected price

Open the 45-day price cone. It shows how price behaved after similar IV-rank readings in the past. This gives you a realistic view of what typically happens next instead of guessing.

3

Size the move with the bar graph

Switch to Bar Graph view and set your target price level. The bars show how often similar IV-rank readings reached that distance by upcoming expirations. Toggle between "By Touch" and "By Close" depending on your strategy.

4

Review the events log for context

Before acting on the signal, open the events log. Check how many historical matches exist and whether they cluster in one period. A small sample or regime-specific cluster tells you the signal may be less reliable than the percentages suggest.

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