China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology told ByteDance, Alibaba, and other domestic firms it intends to approve purchases of Nvidia's RTX Pro 5500 chips, The Information reported on September 27 and Reuters relayed the next day. Nvidia's guidance carries no China revenue after two years of US export curbs and Beijing's own restrictions, so an approved buyer list is incremental demand against a zero baseline. The report follows Reuters' January 28 disclosure that Beijing cleared H200 purchases, so the stance is softening in steps. Options carry almost no event premium. Thirty-day implied volatility is 34.6 percent, IV rank is 1.4, and IV percentile is 2.2, near the floor of the past year. The January 15 expiry spans the November 18 earnings report, where management can fold any China backlog into forward guidance. This updates the open bullish Nvidia view with a catalyst the market has barely priced. The main risk is confirmation. Reuters could not verify the report, and the RTX Pro 5500 is a workstation card, a lower tier than the data-center GPUs that carry most of Nvidia's revenue. The January H200 approval had still produced zero delivered chips by May. Beta of 2.25 against a 10-year yield at 5.1 percent means a broad de-risking would hit the position hard even if the China story stays intact.
NVDA options
NVIDIA Corporation: implied volatility, options liquidity and upcoming catalysts, as the public market snapshot holds them.
Price and volatility
- Price
- $176.41
- Change
- +$7.52 (+4.45%)
- IV rank
- 86.4
- IV percentile
- 99.9
- Implied volatility
- 65%
- Implied volatility, 5-day change
- +4.7 pts
- Historical volatility, 30-day
- 48.9%
- Implied minus historical volatility
- +17.3 pts
- Implied volatility term structure
- 85.8% for Nov 11, 2026, 78.1% for Nov 13, 2026
- Options liquidity
- 4/5
- Share volume
- 5.6M
- Market cap
- $4.5T
- 52-week range
- $164.27–$243.37
- Lendability
- Easy To Borrow
- Next earnings
- Nov 17, 2026
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Upcoming catalysts
· earnings · confirmed
NVDA earnings
· conference · estimated · Intraday
NVIDIA GTC Washington, D.C.
GTC Washington, D.C. runs November 30-December 3, 2026 at the Ronald Reagan Building; Huang keynote expected.
· conference · estimated · Intraday
NVIDIA GTC Washington, D.C. CEO Keynote
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang will deliver a keynote address at the NVIDIA GTC Washington, D.C. conference.