Trading a USLM straddle lets you take a pure volatility position on United States Lime & Minerals Inc without committing to a direction. United States Lime & Minerals 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 USLM straddle pricing in real time and find the moments when expected moves are mispriced.
A long straddle on USLM 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 United States Lime & Minerals 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 USLM straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.
United States Lime & Minerals, Inc. manufactures and supplies lime and limestone products in the United States. It extracts limestone from open-pit quarries and an underground mine, and processes it as pulverized limestone, quicklime, hydrated lime, and lime slurry. The company supplies its products primarily to the construction customers, including highway, road, and building contractors; industrial customers, such as paper and glass manufacturers; environmental customers comprising municipal sanitation and water treatment facilities, and flue gas treatment processes; steel producers; oil and gas services companies; roof shingle manufacturers; and poultry and cattle feed producers.
It also has various royalty interests and non-operating working interests with respect to oil and gas rights in natural gas wells located in Johnson County, Texas in the Barnett Shale Formation. The company was incorporated in 1950 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.
Earnings, product cycles, macro prints — any time volatility itself is the trade, the USLM straddle is the cleanest expression of that view. Our scanner prices every USLM 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 USLM straddle into a catalyst or short a USLM straddle to harvest decay, the options straddle setups that matter are all in one place.
