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WALBanking

Western Alliance Bancorporation
$78.711d -1.1%5d -0.6%settled close · 2026-08-27
Mkt cap $7.7B (8/29)β 0.6652w $74–84Shares 109.9MInd. State Commercial BanksNYSE since 2005Emp. 3,769HQ Phoenix, AZwesternalliancebancorporation.com
Who’s talkingIdea Scout · free

Who’s talking about WAL

No tracked investor commentary on WAL yet — the corpus grows weekly.
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The options tape

Notable options days

Sessions in the last 120 where WAL’s settled options volume ran ≥ 2× its trailing 20-session baseline, or delta-dollar flow ran ≥ 2.5× — 7 of 120 sessions qualified.

The qualifying dates are the free record. Close, flow, call/LEAPS mix and the 20-session outcome — for every session below — are Brief subscriber content.
DateCloseRVOL Δ$ flow ($M)Call % LEAPS %+20 sess.
2026-08-27
2026-08-24
2026-08-06
2026-07-22
2026-07-21
2026-07-20
2026-06-15
+20 sess. = raw price change over the following 20 sessions — not market-adjusted; the tape tells you where to look, not what happens next.
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Play history The Playbook · coming

Has a validated strategy ever fired on WAL?

Has a validated strategy ever fired on WAL — and how did the trades resolve? Even “never fired” is information.

Fire-by-fire history — play, entry, exit, result — is Playbook member content (coming).
FiredPlayEntry ExitResult
Every play carries a written validation gate, a spec, and a changelog. How plays are validated