Trading a UEC straddle lets you take a pure volatility position on Uranium Energy Corp without committing to a direction. Uranium Energy 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 UEC straddle pricing in real time and find the moments when expected moves are mispriced.
A long straddle on UEC 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 Uranium Energy 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 UEC straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.
Uranium Energy Corp., together with its subsidiaries, engages in exploration, pre-extraction, extraction, and processing uranium and titanium concentrates in the United States, Canada, and Paraguay. It owns interests in the Palangana mine, Goliad, Burke Hollow, Longhorn, and Salvo projects located in Texas; Anderson, Workman Creek, and Los Cuatros projects situated in Arizona; Slick Rock project in Colorado; Reno Creek project in Wyoming; Diabase project located in Canada; and Yuty, Oviedo, and Alto Paraná titanium projects in Paraguay. The company was formerly known as Carlin Gold Inc. and changed its name to Uranium Energy Corp.
in January 2005. Uranium Energy Corp. was incorporated in 2003 and is based in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Earnings, product cycles, macro prints — any time volatility itself is the trade, the UEC straddle is the cleanest expression of that view. Our scanner prices every UEC 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 UEC straddle into a catalyst or short a UEC straddle to harvest decay, the options straddle setups that matter are all in one place.
