Natural Gas Services Group Inc (NGS) Straddle

Trading a NGS straddle lets you take a pure volatility position on Natural Gas Services Group Inc without committing to a direction. Natural Gas Services Group 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 NGS straddle pricing in real time and find the moments when expected moves are mispriced.

A long straddle on NGS 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 Natural Gas Services Group 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 NGS straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.

Natural Gas Services Group, Inc. provides natural gas compression services and equipment to the energy industry in the United States. It fabricates, manufactures, rents, and sells natural gas compressors and related equipment. The company primarily engages in the rental of compression units that provide small, medium, and large horsepower applications for unconventional oil and natural gas production. As of December 31, 2021, the company had 2,023 natural gas compression units in its rental fleet with 418,041 horsepower. The company also engages in the design, fabrication, and assembly of compressor components into compressor units for rental or sale; engineers and fabricates natural gas compressors; and designs and manufactures a line of reciprocating compressor frames, cylinders, and parts.

Earnings, product cycles, macro prints — any time volatility itself is the trade, the NGS straddle is the cleanest expression of that view. Our scanner prices every NGS 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 NGS straddle into a catalyst or short a NGS straddle to harvest decay, the options straddle setups that matter are all in one place.