Trading a AREC straddle lets you take a pure volatility position on American Resources Corp without committing to a direction. American Resources Corp's straddle involves buying (or selling) a call and a put at the same strike and expiration, profiting when the stock moves more (or less) than the combined premium implies. Use our scanner to evaluate AREC straddle pricing in real time and find the moments when expected moves are mispriced.
A long straddle on AREC profits from large moves in either direction and is a classic play into binary events like earnings, product announcements, or macro releases. A short straddle profits when American Resources Corp stays range-bound and implied volatility contracts. The breakeven points are simple: strike plus total premium on the upside, strike minus total premium on the downside. Comparing the AREC straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.
American Resources Corporation engages in the extraction, processing, transportation, distribution, and sale of metallurgical coal to the steel industries. The company supplies raw materials; and sells coal used in pulverized coal injections. It has a portfolio of operations located in the Pike, Knott, and Letcher Counties in Kentucky; and Wyoming County, West Virginia. American Resources Corporation was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Fishers, Indiana.
Earnings, product cycles, macro prints — any time volatility itself is the trade, the AREC straddle is the cleanest expression of that view. Our scanner prices every AREC straddle against historical realized moves, flags expirations where the market is overpaying or underpaying for vol, and ranks setups by breakeven width and IV rank. Whether you're long a AREC straddle into a catalyst or short a AREC straddle to harvest decay, the options straddle setups that matter are all in one place.
