📡 $SPCX options structure daily report | August 27 close
💰 Closing price $138.76 (+0.60%) 🎯 Net GEX +$66.8M 🟢 Positive Gamma 📍 Gamma Flip $138.00 🧱 Call Wall $150 / Put Wall $135 📊 ATM IV 55.6%
【Key Changes】 GEX jumped from the previous day’s +$19.6M to +$66.8M, increasing by $47.2M in a single day. The market makers’ hedging direction has officially switched from negative Gamma to positive Gamma. This means: ✅ When price is above Flip ($138), market makers switch to a high-sell/low-buy mode, suppressing volatility ✅ Short-term consolidation leans bullish, with positive Gamma forming a support cushion ✅ Put Wall $135 becomes the first line of defense on the downside
【Key Catalyst: Tomorrow!】 🚀 The Starship IFT-14 launch window opens on August 28 The mission’s goal is to complete a full orbital flight for the first time and attempt to deploy Starlink V3 satellites. This is a crucial milestone for SpaceX shifting from testing to operations.
⚠️ On September 9, approximately 319 million shares of restricted stock are set to be released—by far the largest single-day unlock since listing. Liquidity impact should be monitored in advance.
【Trading Reference】 Holding steady above Flip $138 supports a moderately bullish approach. If it breaks below $135 (Put Wall), the positive Gamma structure fails. With IV at 55.6%—at a moderate level—selling options still offers good value.
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💰 Close $0.01 | +0.67% 🎯 GEX +$19.6M 🟢 | Flip $138.00 🧱 Call Wall $150.00 / Put Wall $135.00 📊 IV 56.0%
**Outlook: Bearish ⚠️** — Negative gamma persists, price is below the Flip, short-term bias remains bearish/sideways. Watch the $135.00 support.
**Changes:** - Net GEX increased by $42.1M vs. 2026-08-25 ($-22.5M → +$19.6M) - Gamma Flip moved by -$4.00 ($142.00 → $138.00) - Put Wall shifted by +$5.00 ($130.00 → $135.00)
**Upcoming Catalysts:** - 2026-08-28 (in 2 days) Starship Flight 14 test-flight window opens (planned first deployment of Starlink V3 into orbit) - 2026-09-09 (in 14 days) SpaceX restricted shares reach the 90-day unlock window, 319 million shares to be released.
$SPCX Just launched a big move—plans to spend $100 billion to build a "Starship" super launch base. Target completion in 2029. By then, it will launch 30 times per day, making it directly the largest launch site in the world.
This scale is absolutely staggering—it's like combining the current global capacity of all launch sites and then multiplying it several times over.
For SPCX, which you're paying attention to, this is a major signal from Musk strongly supporting the commercialization of Starship:
Capacity: 30 launches per day means Starship will fully shift from a "prototype" to an "industrial product". The deployment schedule for Starlink V3, the networking of xAI computing-satellite constellations, and even the timeline for the Mars program will all be significantly compressed.
Funding: A $100 billion capex commitment is no small matter. Next, watch SPCX’s financing/debt-issuance cadence, and whether it could dilute existing shareholders’ equity.
Valuation logic: If it really can achieve 30 launches per day in 2029, the ceiling of the launch services market will be opened up completely, and SPCX’s long-term revenue expectations will need to be repriced.
$SPCX net GEX increased by 7.7M compared to 2026-08-24 (-30.2M → $-22.5M) Gamma Flip moved by $+5.00 ($137.00 → $142.00) Call Wall displacement moved by $+13.00 ($137.00 → $150.00)
Upcoming catalysts:
2026-08-28 (in 3 days) Starship Flight 14 test flight window opens (planned first deployment of Starlink V3 into orbit)
$SPCX SpaceX has a new development worth paying attention to
**Space AI compute chip enters mass production**
Musk confirmed that the space-optimized Vera Rubin NVL72 system is planned to be launched into orbit in 2027 Q4, to be used for the first-generation Starmind AI satellite for SpaceX AI. The core component, Groq 3 LPX, has been fully in mass production as of yesterday (August 24).
This means SpaceX’s space-based AI compute layout has moved from the planning stage into a tangible hardware deployment phase. The target for large-scale deployment is to reach 2028, and the timeline could be faster than earlier market expectations. For SPCX, this line is one of the key narratives behind Starlink’s AI transformation—if space edge computing can be made to work, the scope for commercial imagination will take another step up.
Institutional Developments: Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest invested $27 million to make a major purchase of SpaceX stock.
Competitive Landscape: NASA has awarded payload services contracts to competitors such as Blue Origin; it’s important to watch how the government order share changes.
Technical Progress: SpaceX recently conducted a static test of the Starship “Raptor” engines involving a simulated departure-point ignition, preparing for subsequent reuse missions.
Starship V3’s 14th test flight is scheduled for September 30. On August 21, it successfully completed a 60-second full-duration static ignition test with all six engines.
$SPCX through 2 0 date options Gamma structure: - Net GEX is -18.7 million USD. The broker/dealer is in a negative Gamma regime—this means volatility is amplified, but the direction of the amplification depends on where the price is located.
According to SpotGamma analysis, traders have been selling call options around $150 while buying put options below—this keeps the dealer holding positive Gamma above $140, who will sell stocks to hedge as price rises, naturally suppressing upside momentum. That’s how $150 is essentially “welded” into a ceiling.
$SPCX I’ve seen many people calling it bearish, but SPCX has gone through 2 unlocks and the price is still holding steady around 135. It should mean the market’s ability to absorb is very strong. When Starship technology breaks through the bottleneck and enters the commercial operations stage, SPCX’s space ecosystem will enter a phase of rapid, high-speed development.