Trading a POR straddle lets you take a pure volatility position on Portland General Electric Co without committing to a direction. Portland General Electric Co'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 POR straddle pricing in real time and find the moments when expected moves are mispriced.
A long straddle on POR 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 Portland General Electric Co 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 POR straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.
Portland General Electric Company, an integrated electric utility company, engages in the generation, wholesale purchase, transmission, distribution, and retail sale of electricity in the state of Oregon. It operates six thermal plants, three wind farms, and seven hydroelectric facilities. As of December 31, 2021, the company owned an electric transmission system consisting of 1,274 circuit miles, including 287 circuit miles of 500 kilovolt line, 415 circuit miles of 230 kilovolt line, and 572 miles of 115 kilovolt line. It has 28,206 circuit miles of distribution lines. The company also purchases and sells wholesale natural gas in the United States and Canada.
It serves approximately 917 thousand residential, commercial, and industrial customers in 51 cities. The company was founded in 1889 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.
Earnings, product cycles, macro prints — any time volatility itself is the trade, the POR straddle is the cleanest expression of that view. Our scanner prices every POR 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 POR straddle into a catalyst or short a POR straddle to harvest decay, the options straddle setups that matter are all in one place.
