OPTT
Moving with the market
- OPTT −0.15% on the last session vs SPY +0.06%: −0.2 pts of stock-specific move.
- Market backdrop (Today): Core PPI m/m 1.3% vs 0.3% expected (hotter); Core Retail Sales m/m 0.9% vs 0.6% expected (stronger); S&P futures -0.08%, 10-year yield -3bp in the 30 minutes after.
Bargain & stretch prices
Prices OPTT only reaches with set odds, from its own recent swings. Odds, not a forecast.
| Today | Next 5 sessions | |
|---|---|---|
| Stretch sell side |
1.27 +91.9% ↑ more often after a big drop
reached 3 in 10 days · 31% vs usual 28% |
2.83 +329.4% ↑ more often after a big drop
reached 3 in 10 weeks · 31% vs usual 30% |
| Now | 0.66 · prior close 0.66 | |
| Bargain buy side |
0.34 -47.9% ↓ less often while far below its high
reached 2 in 10 days · 24% vs usual 26% |
0.15 -76.7% ↓ less often while far below its high
reached 3 in 10 weeks · 25% vs usual 27% |
More patient or more eager
| Bargain | Reached | Stretch | Reached | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Today | ||||
| Patient | 0.28 | 2 in 10 days↓ 15% vs 17% | 1.56 | 2 in 10 days↑ 20% vs 17% |
| Balanced | 0.34 | 2 in 10 days↓ 24% vs 26% | 1.27 | 3 in 10 days↑ 31% vs 28% |
| Eager | 0.42 | 4 in 10 days↓ 40% vs 41% | 1.04 | 5 in 10 days↑ 49% vs 45% |
| Next 5 sessions | ||||
| Patient | 0.10 | 2 in 10 weeks↓ 16% vs 18% | 4.55 | 2 in 10 weeks |
| Balanced | 0.15 | 3 in 10 weeks↓ 25% vs 27% | 2.83 | 3 in 10 weeks↑ 31% vs 30% |
| Eager | 0.24 | 4 in 10 weeks↓ 41% vs 43% | 1.82 | 5 in 10 weeks↑ 49% vs 48% |
"3 in 10 days" means the price was reached on about 3 of every 10 days like this one. Patient prices are further away and come less often; eager ones are closer and come more often. From OPTT's daily swings (about 67.4% a day lately), anchored on the Oct 14 close. The odds were measured on 10 years of S&P 500 prices (they move about 3 points from year to year with the market: bargain prices come more often in falling years, stretch prices in rising ones), and where a situation below changed them consistently (in at least 8 of 10 years), they are adjusted and marked. In those tests, waiting for the bargain price did no better on average than buying at the close: what you save when it comes, you pay when it doesn't.
Situations on the Oct 14 close
- Stretch price, next session: reached 31% of days instead of the usual 28% (held in 9 of 10 years)
- Stretch price, next 5 sessions: reached 31% of weeks instead of the usual 30% (held in 8 of 10 years)
| Date | That day | 1 week on | 1 month on | 3 months on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 7, 2026 | -9.4% | -31.2% | — | — |
| Sep 28, 2026 | -16.9% | -42.5% | — | — |
| Sep 16, 2026 | -11.2% | +20.9% | — | — |
| Sep 8, 2026 | -15.8% | +1181.2% | +500.0% | — |
| Aug 17, 2026 | -9.5% | -5.3% | +857.9% | — |
| Aug 5, 2026 | -96.7% | +11.1% | +5.6% | — |
| Jul 24, 2026 | -16.7% | +20.0% | +20.0% | — |
| Jul 10, 2026 | -15.4% | -9.1% | -13.6% | +309.1% |
- Bargain price, next session: reached 24% of days instead of the usual 26% (held in 9 of 10 years)
- Bargain price, next 5 sessions: reached 25% of weeks instead of the usual 27% (held in 10 of 10 years)
Big drop and big gain: among OPTT's own worst or best 10% of daily moves, as on the Aftermath tab. The past times are history: in our tests, how a stock did after its earlier times did not predict the next one, and across the S&P 500 none of these situations leaned up or down except, weakly, an all-time high followed by a big drop. Not advice.
Price ladder
| All-time closing high Nov 12, 2007 |
3,652.00 +554073.0% |
| 52-week closing high Aug 11, 2026 |
6.00 +810.5% |
| Stretch, next 5 sessions | 2.83 +330.0% |
| 50-day average | 1.02 +54.7% |
| Previous close Oct 14, 2026 |
0.66 +0.2% |
| Now | 0.66 |
| 200-day average | 0.57 -13.9% |
| Bargain, next 5 sessions | 0.15 -76.7% |
| 52-week closing low Sep 11, 2026 |
0.11 -83.3% |
Closing prices (all-time = the 19 years Yahoo has). Percentages are the distance from now. These are levels people watch, not levels the price has to respect. Not advice.