Market Tremors Ahead: Decoding Options Volatility & Implied Earnings Moves (Nov 17-20, 2025)

Wall Street's fear gauge is wide awake—brace for a high-stakes week of earnings landmines and gamma squeezes.

Implied Moves: The Silent Killers

Options traders are pricing in explosive swings—bigger than CFO excuses during earnings calls. November 17-20 could rewrite the playbook on volatility arbitrage.

Volatility Smash or Cash?

Market makers are trapped between gamma cliffs and dealer hedging flows. One wrong step triggers a domino effect—ask the hedge funds still licking 2024's wounds.

Bonus jab: Remember, 'efficient markets' are just collective hallucinations between Fed meetings.

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Ahead of this week’s major earnings announcements, TipRanks has calculated the expected moves of these companies’ stocks. We use the at-the-money straddle of the options whose post-earnings expiration dates are closest to the earnings announcement date.

Note that options volatility tends to be high in the days leading up to an earnings announcement, due to uncertainty around the earnings. Investors don’t know whether the earnings will be positive or negative, so the price of options (aka the option premium) rises.

Furthermore, after the earnings announcement, because the uncertainty has been resolved, the price of options (the option premium) decreases substantially. This is known as the volatility crush.

Here are the major companies reporting this week and their expected earnings moves. Click on any ticker to see additional data about options on the stock, including real-time expected earnings moves, prices, volume, and open interest.

Monday, November 17, 2025

JKS: +/- 10.54%

Tuesday, November 18, 2025

BIDU: +/- 7.89%
TCOM: +/- 6.32%
MDT: +/- 3.89%
SBLK: +/- 4.49%
WB: +/- 4.97%
IQ: +/- 10.10%
PDD: +/- 6.95%
FUTU: +/- 8.86%
CAN: +/- 25.78%

Wednesday, November 19, 2025

LOW: +/- 5.01%
NVDA: +/- 7.70%
PANW: +/- 7.68%
SQM: +/- 10.17%
TGT: +/- 9.96%
TJX: +/- 4.45%
WIX: +/- 13.62%
NNDM: +/- 12.99%
CRNC: +/- 16.75%

Thursday, November 20, 2025

INTU: +/- 8.29%
BBWI: +/- 11.14%
ROST: +/- 6.62%
VIPS: +/- 9.02%
WMT: +/- 5.26%
VEEV: +/- 7.16%
ESTC: +/- 15.63%
NNOX: +/- 23.57%
ZIM: +/- 11.74%

Please note that options trading has known risks. Thorough research is recommended before engaging in options trading.