TSYW Bear Put Spread Strategy
TSYW (Roundhill ETF Trust - Roundhill Treasury Bond Weeklypay ETF), in the Financial Services sector, (Asset Management industry), listed on CBOE.
TSYW seeks to pair weekly income distributions with leveraged weekly performance linked to a long-term Treasury bond ETF. The fund implements this through a combination of total return swaps referencing the ETF and direct ETF holdings, supported by short-term Treasuries and cash for collateral. Its leverage target resets to 120 percent each calendar week, allowing the fund to maintain consistent weekly exposure rather than magnifying daily moves. Weekly distributions are determined by a formula incorporating recent benchmark performance and implied volatility, and a substantial portion may be classified as return of capital. When the benchmark rises over a calendar week, TSYW aims to capture proportionally larger gains, while declines result in correspondingly larger losses. The strategy maintains exposure regardless of market direction and can exhibit heightened volatility due to its weekly leverage structure.
TSYW (Roundhill ETF Trust - Roundhill Treasury Bond Weeklypay ETF) trades in the Financial Services sector, specifically Asset Management, with a market capitalization of approximately $2.7M, a beta of 0.13 versus the broader market, a 52-week range of 37.98-50.161, average daily share volume of 3K, a public-listing history dating back to 2025. These structural characteristics shape how TSYW etf options price implied volatility around earnings windows, capital events, and macro-driven sector rotations.
A beta of 0.13 indicates TSYW has historically moved less than the broader market, dampening realized volatility and producing tighter expected-move bands per unit of dollar exposure. TSYW pays a dividend, which adjusts put-call parity and shifts the ex-dividend pricing across the listed chain.
What is a bear put spread on TSYW?
A bear put spread buys an at-the-money put and sells an out-of-the-money put at a lower strike for defined risk and defined reward bounded by the strike width.
TSYW snapshot
As of September 29, 2026, spot at $38.23, ATM IV 17.60%, IV rank 12.28%, expected move 5.05%. The bear put spread on TSYW below is built from the September 29, 2026 end-of-day chain, with strikes snapped to listed contracts and premiums pulled from the bid/ask midpoint at a 80-day expiry.
Why this bear put spread structure on TSYW specifically: TSYW IV at 17.60% is on the cheap side of its 1-year range, which favors premium-buying structures like a TSYW bear put spread, with a market-implied 1-standard-deviation move of approximately 5.05% (roughly $1.93 on the underlying). The 80-day window matched to the front-month expiry keeps theta exposure bounded while still capturing the post-snapshot move; longer-dated TSYW expiries trade a higher absolute premium for lower per-day decay. Position sizing on TSYW should anchor to the underlying notional of $38.23 per share and to the trader's directional view on TSYW etf.
TSYW bear put spread setup
The TSYW bear put spread below is built from the September 29, 2026 end-of-day chain, with each option leg priced at the bid/ask midpoint of its listed strike. With TSYW at $38.23 on that close, the first option leg uses a $38.00 strike; additional legs (when the strategy has them) anchor to spot-relative offsets. Premiums come from the bid/ask midpoint on the listed TSYW chain at a 80-day expiry; the cross-strike IV skew is reflected directly in the per-leg values rather than approximated. Quantity sizing assumes one contract per option leg (or 100 TSYW shares for the stock leg in covered calls and collars).
| Action | Type | Strike / Basis | Premium (est) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buy 1 | Put | $38.00 | $1.23 |
| Sell 1 | Put | $36.00 | $0.58 |
TSYW bear put spread risk and reward
- Net Premium / Debit
- -$65.00
- Max Profit (per contract)
- $135.00
- Max Loss (per contract)
- -$65.00
- Breakeven(s)
- $37.35
- Risk / Reward Ratio
- 2.077
Max profit equals strike width minus net debit times 100; max loss equals net debit times 100. Breakeven is long-put strike minus net debit.
TSYW bear put spread payoff curve
Modeled P&L at expiration across a range of underlying prices for the bear put spread on TSYW. Each row is one sampled price point from the computed payoff curve; the full curve uses 200 price points internally before being summarized into 10 rows here.
| Underlying Price | % From Spot | P&L at Expiration |
|---|---|---|
| $0.01 | -100.0% | +$135.00 |
| $8.46 | -77.9% | +$135.00 |
| $16.91 | -55.8% | +$135.00 |
| $25.37 | -33.7% | +$135.00 |
| $33.82 | -11.5% | +$135.00 |
| $42.27 | +10.6% | -$65.00 |
| $50.72 | +32.7% | -$65.00 |
| $59.17 | +54.8% | -$65.00 |
| $67.62 | +76.9% | -$65.00 |
| $76.08 | +99.0% | -$65.00 |
When traders use bear put spread on TSYW
Bear put spreads on TSYW reduce the cost of a bearish TSYW etf position by selling a lower-strike put; suited to moderate-decline theses where price reaches but does not vastly exceed the short strike.
TSYW thesis for this bear put spread
The market-implied 1-standard-deviation range for TSYW extends from approximately $36.30 on the downside to $40.16 on the upside. A TSYW bear put spread caps both the risk and the reward of a bearish position; relative to an outright long put on TSYW, the spread reduces the cost basis but limits the maximum profit to the strike width minus net debit. Current TSYW IV rank near 12.28% sits in the lower third of its 1-year distribution, where IV often re-expands toward the mean; this favors premium-buying structures and disadvantages premium-selling structures on TSYW at 17.60%. As a Financial Services name, TSYW options can move on sector-level news flow (peer earnings, regulatory updates, industry-specific macro data) in addition to TSYW-specific events.
TSYW bear put spread positions are structurally moderately bearish; the modeled P&L assumes European-style exercise at expiration and ignores early assignment, transaction costs, dividends paid before expiry on the stock leg (when present), and the bid-ask spread on the listed chain. TSYW positions also carry Financial Services sector concentration risk; news flow inside the sector (peer earnings, regulatory shifts, supply-chain headlines) can move TSYW alongside the broader basket even when TSYW-specific fundamentals are unchanged. Long-premium structures like a bear put spread on TSYW are particularly exposed to IV-crush risk through scheduled events (earnings, FDA decisions, central-bank meetings) where IV typically contracts post-event regardless of the directional outcome. Always rebuild the position from current TSYW chain quotes before placing a trade.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a bear put spread on TSYW?
- A bear put spread on TSYW is the bear put spread strategy applied to TSYW (etf). The strategy is structurally moderately bearish: A bear put spread buys an at-the-money put and sells an out-of-the-money put at a lower strike for defined risk and defined reward bounded by the strike width. With TSYW etf at $38.23 on the September 29, 2026 close, the strikes shown on this page are snapped to the nearest listed TSYW chain strike and the premiums come straight from that session's bid/ask midpoint.
- How are TSYW bear put spread max profit and max loss calculated?
- Max profit equals strike width minus net debit times 100; max loss equals net debit times 100. Breakeven is long-put strike minus net debit. For the TSYW bear put spread priced from the September 29, 2026 end-of-day chain at a 30-day expiry (ATM IV 17.60%), the computed maximum profit is $135.00 per contract and the computed maximum loss is -$65.00 per contract. Live intraday quotes will differ as the chain moves through the trading session.
- What is the breakeven for a TSYW bear put spread?
- The breakeven for the TSYW bear put spread priced on this page is roughly $37.35 at expiration, derived from the September 29, 2026 end-of-day chain's premiums. Breakeven is the underlying price at which the strategy's P&L crosses zero ignoring transaction costs and assignment risk. The TSYW market-implied 1-standard-deviation expected move in the same options snapshot is approximately 5.05%; if the move sits well outside the breakeven distance, the structure's risk-reward becomes correspondingly tighter.
- When should you consider a bear put spread on TSYW?
- Bear put spreads on TSYW reduce the cost of a bearish TSYW etf position by selling a lower-strike put; suited to moderate-decline theses where price reaches but does not vastly exceed the short strike.
- How does current TSYW implied volatility affect this bear put spread?
- TSYW ATM IV is at 17.60% with IV rank near 12.28%, which is on the low end of its 1-year range. Premium-buying structures (long call, long put, debit spreads) are relatively cheap in this regime; premium-selling structures collect less credit per unit risk.