Trading a USAC straddle lets you take a pure volatility position on USA Compression Partners LP without committing to a direction. USA Compression Partners LP'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 USAC straddle pricing in real time and find the moments when expected moves are mispriced.
A long straddle on USAC 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 USA Compression Partners LP 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 USAC straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.
USA Compression Partners, LP, a growth-oriented Delaware limited partnership that provides natural gas compression services in terms of total compression fleet horsepower. The company offers compression services to oil companies and independent producers, processors, gatherers, and transporters of natural gas and crude oil, as well as operates stations. It primarily focuses on providing natural gas compression services to infrastructure applications, including centralized natural gas gathering systems and processing facilities. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
Earnings, product cycles, macro prints — any time volatility itself is the trade, the USAC straddle is the cleanest expression of that view. Our scanner prices every USAC 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 USAC straddle into a catalyst or short a USAC straddle to harvest decay, the options straddle setups that matter are all in one place.
