Trading a FTK straddle lets you take a pure volatility position on Flotek Industries Inc without committing to a direction. Flotek Industries Inc'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 FTK straddle pricing in real time and find the moments when expected moves are mispriced.
A long straddle on FTK 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 Flotek Industries Inc 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 FTK straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.
Flotek Industries, Inc. operates as a technology-driven chemistry and data company that serves customers across industrial, commercial, and consumer markets in the United States, the United Arab Emirates, and internationally. It operates in two segments, Chemistry Technologies (CT) and Data Analytics (DA). The CT segment designs, develops, manufactures, packages, distributes, delivers, and markets green specialty chemicals that enhance the profitability of hydrocarbon producers and cleans surfaces in commercial and personal settings to help reduce the spread of bacteria, viruses, and germs. This segment primarily serves integrated oil and gas, oilfield services, independent oil and gas, national and state-owned oil, geothermal energy, solar energy, and alternative energy companies.
The DA segment designs, develops, produces, sells, and supports equipment and services that create and provide valuable information on the composition and properties of energy customers' hydrocarbon fluids. This segment's data platforms combine the energy industry's field-deployable, inline optical analyzer with proprietary cloud visualization and analytics. It sells its products directly through a mix of in-house sales professionals, as well as contractual agency agreements. The company was incorporated in 1985 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
Earnings, product cycles, macro prints — any time volatility itself is the trade, the FTK straddle is the cleanest expression of that view. Our scanner prices every FTK 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 FTK straddle into a catalyst or short a FTK straddle to harvest decay, the options straddle setups that matter are all in one place.
