CCEC Bear Put Spread Strategy
CCEC (Capital Clean Energy Carriers Corp.), in the Industrials sector, (Marine Shipping industry), listed on NASDAQ.
Capital Clean Energy Carriers Corp., a shipping company, provides marine transportation services in Greece. The company's vessels provide a range of cargoes, including liquefied natural gas, containerized goods, and cargo under short-term voyage charters, and medium to long-term time charters. It owns vessels, including Neo-Panamax container vessels, Panamax container vessels, cape-size bulk carrier, and LNG carriers. In addition, the company produces and distributes oil and natural gas, including biofuels, motor oil, lubricants, petrol, crudes, liquefied natural gas, marine fuels, natural gas liquids, and petrochemicals. It serves as the general partner of the company. The company was formerly known as Capital Product Partners L.P. and changed its name to Capital Clean Energy Carriers Corp. in August 2024.
CCEC (Capital Clean Energy Carriers Corp.) trades in the Industrials sector, specifically Marine Shipping, with a market capitalization of approximately $1.22B, a trailing P/E of 22.43, a beta of 0.59 versus the broader market, a 52-week range of 16.77-24.83, average daily share volume of 8K, a public-listing history dating back to 2007. These structural characteristics shape how CCEC stock options price implied volatility around earnings windows, capital events, and macro-driven sector rotations.
A beta of 0.59 indicates CCEC has historically moved less than the broader market, dampening realized volatility and producing tighter expected-move bands per unit of dollar exposure. CCEC 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 CCEC?
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.
Current CCEC snapshot
As of May 15, 2026, spot at $20.75, ATM IV 35.80%, IV rank 6.11%, expected move 10.26%. The bear put spread on CCEC below is built from the same end-of-day chain, with strikes snapped to listed contracts and premiums pulled from the bid/ask midpoint at a 34-day expiry.
Why this bear put spread structure on CCEC specifically: CCEC IV at 35.80% is on the cheap side of its 1-year range, which favors premium-buying structures like a CCEC bear put spread, with a market-implied 1-standard-deviation move of approximately 10.26% (roughly $2.13 on the underlying). The 34-day window matched to the front-month expiry keeps theta exposure bounded while still capturing the post-snapshot move; longer-dated CCEC expiries trade a higher absolute premium for lower per-day decay. Position sizing on CCEC should anchor to the underlying notional of $20.75 per share and to the trader's directional view on CCEC stock.
CCEC bear put spread setup
The CCEC bear put spread below is built from the end-of-day chain, with each option leg priced at the bid/ask midpoint of its listed strike. With CCEC near $20.75, the first option leg uses a $20.75 strike; additional legs (when the strategy has them) anchor to spot-relative offsets. Premiums come from the bid/ask midpoint on the listed CCEC chain at a 34-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 CCEC shares for the stock leg in covered calls and collars).
| Action | Type | Strike / Basis | Premium (est) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buy 1 | Put | $20.75 | N/A |
| Sell 1 | Put | $19.71 | N/A |
CCEC bear put spread risk and reward
- Net Premium / Debit
- N/A
- Max Profit (per contract)
- Unbounded
- Max Loss (per contract)
- Unbounded
- Breakeven(s)
- None on modeled curve
- Risk / Reward Ratio
- N/A
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.
CCEC bear put spread payoff curve
Modeled P&L at expiration across a range of underlying prices for the bear put spread on CCEC. 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.
When traders use bear put spread on CCEC
Bear put spreads on CCEC reduce the cost of a bearish CCEC stock position by selling a lower-strike put; suited to moderate-decline theses where price reaches but does not vastly exceed the short strike.
CCEC thesis for this bear put spread
The market-implied 1-standard-deviation range for CCEC extends from approximately $18.62 on the downside to $22.88 on the upside. A CCEC bear put spread caps both the risk and the reward of a bearish position; relative to an outright long put on CCEC, the spread reduces the cost basis but limits the maximum profit to the strike width minus net debit. Current CCEC IV rank near 6.11% 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 CCEC at 35.80%. As a Industrials name, CCEC options can move on sector-level news flow (peer earnings, regulatory updates, industry-specific macro data) in addition to CCEC-specific events.
CCEC 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. CCEC positions also carry Industrials sector concentration risk; news flow inside the sector (peer earnings, regulatory shifts, supply-chain headlines) can move CCEC alongside the broader basket even when CCEC-specific fundamentals are unchanged. Long-premium structures like a bear put spread on CCEC 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 CCEC chain quotes before placing a trade.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a bear put spread on CCEC?
- A bear put spread on CCEC is the bear put spread strategy applied to CCEC (stock). 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 CCEC stock trading near $20.75, the strikes shown on this page are snapped to the nearest listed CCEC chain strike and the premiums come straight from the end-of-day bid/ask midpoint.
- How are CCEC 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 CCEC bear put spread priced from the end-of-day chain at a 30-day expiry (ATM IV 35.80%), the computed maximum profit is unbounded per contract and the computed maximum loss is unbounded per contract. Live intraday quotes will differ as the chain moves through the trading session.
- What is the breakeven for a CCEC bear put spread?
- The breakeven for the CCEC bear put spread priced on this page is no defined breakeven on the modeled curve at expiration, derived from end-of-day chain premiums. Breakeven is the underlying price at which the strategy's P&L crosses zero ignoring transaction costs and assignment risk. The current CCEC market-implied 1-standard-deviation expected move is approximately 10.26%; 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 CCEC?
- Bear put spreads on CCEC reduce the cost of a bearish CCEC stock 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 CCEC implied volatility affect this bear put spread?
- CCEC ATM IV is at 35.80% with IV rank near 6.11%, 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.