USCF Gold Strategy Plus Income Fund (USG) Straddle

Trading a USG straddle lets you take a pure volatility position on USCF Gold Strategy Plus Income Fund without committing to a direction. USCF Gold Strategy Plus Income Fund'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 USG straddle pricing in real time and find the moments when expected moves are mispriced.

A long straddle on USG 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 USCF Gold Strategy Plus Income Fund 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 USG straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.

The fund adviser seeks to achieve its investment objective by maintaining substantial economic exposure to the performance of the physical gold and gold futures markets (the “Gold Markets”). The fund will only invest in COMEX Gold Warrants and gold futures through the subsidiary. The fund is non-diversified.

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