FET Iron Condor Strategy
FET (Forum Energy Technologies, Inc.), in the Energy sector, (Oil & Gas Equipment & Services industry), listed on NYSE.
Forum Energy Technologies, Inc. designs, manufactures, and distributes products serving the oil, natural gas, industrial, and renewable energy industries in the United States and internationally. It operates through three segments: Drilling & Downhole, Completions, and Production. The Drilling & Downhole segment designs, manufactures, and supplies products, and provides related services to the drilling, well construction, artificial lift, and subsea energy construction markets, including applications in oil and natural gas, renewable energy, defense, and communications. This segment offers drilling technologies consisting of capital equipment and a line of products consumed in the drilling process; well construction casing and cementing equipment, and protection products for artificial lift equipment and cables; and subsea remotely operated vehicles and trenchers, submarine rescue vehicles, specialty components and tools, and complementary subsea technical services. The Completions segment offers hydraulic fracturing pumps, cooling systems, high-pressure flexible hoses, and flow iron for pressure pumping, hydraulic fracturing and flowback services markets; wireline cable and pressure control equipment for well completion and intervention service markets; and coiled tubing strings and coiled line pipe. The Production segment designs, manufactures, and supplies products, and provides related equipment and services for production and infrastructure markets.
FET (Forum Energy Technologies, Inc.) trades in the Energy sector, specifically Oil & Gas Equipment & Services, with a market capitalization of approximately $631.9M, a beta of 0.60 versus the broader market, a 52-week range of 14.17-65.43, average daily share volume of 223K, a public-listing history dating back to 2012, approximately 2K full-time employees. These structural characteristics shape how FET stock options price implied volatility around earnings windows, capital events, and macro-driven sector rotations.
A beta of 0.60 indicates FET has historically moved less than the broader market, dampening realized volatility and producing tighter expected-move bands per unit of dollar exposure.
What is a iron condor on FET?
An iron condor sells a call spread and a put spread at strikes outside spot, collecting net premium that is kept if the underlying stays inside the inner short strikes.
Current FET snapshot
As of May 15, 2026, spot at $56.05, ATM IV 52.90%, IV rank 26.81%, expected move 15.17%. The iron condor on FET 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 iron condor structure on FET specifically: FET IV at 52.90% is on the cheap side of its 1-year range, which means a premium-selling FET iron condor collects less credit per unit of strike-width risk, with a market-implied 1-standard-deviation move of approximately 15.17% (roughly $8.50 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 FET expiries trade a higher absolute premium for lower per-day decay. Position sizing on FET should anchor to the underlying notional of $56.05 per share and to the trader's directional view on FET stock.
FET iron condor setup
The FET iron condor below is built from the end-of-day chain, with each option leg priced at the bid/ask midpoint of its listed strike. With FET near $56.05, the first option leg uses a $58.85 strike; additional legs (when the strategy has them) anchor to spot-relative offsets. Premiums come from the bid/ask midpoint on the listed FET 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 FET shares for the stock leg in covered calls and collars).
| Action | Type | Strike / Basis | Premium (est) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sell 1 | Call | $58.85 | N/A |
| Buy 1 | Call | $61.66 | N/A |
| Sell 1 | Put | $53.25 | N/A |
| Buy 1 | Put | $50.45 | N/A |
FET iron condor 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 the net credit times 100 inside the inner strikes; max loss equals wing width minus credit times 100. Two breakevens at inner strikes plus and minus the credit.
FET iron condor payoff curve
Modeled P&L at expiration across a range of underlying prices for the iron condor on FET. 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 iron condor on FET
Iron condors on FET are a delta-neutral premium-collection structure that profits if FET stock stays inside the inner short strikes; short strikes typically sit near 1 standard deviation from spot.
FET thesis for this iron condor
The market-implied 1-standard-deviation range for FET extends from approximately $47.55 on the downside to $64.55 on the upside. A FET iron condor is a delta-neutral premium-collection structure that pays off when FET stays inside the inner short strikes through expiration; the wing width should reflect the trader's tolerance for the maximum loss scenario where the underlying breaches an outer strike. Current FET IV rank near 26.81% 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 FET at 52.90%. As a Energy name, FET options can move on sector-level news flow (peer earnings, regulatory updates, industry-specific macro data) in addition to FET-specific events.
FET iron condor positions are structurally neutral / range-bound; 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. FET positions also carry Energy sector concentration risk; news flow inside the sector (peer earnings, regulatory shifts, supply-chain headlines) can move FET alongside the broader basket even when FET-specific fundamentals are unchanged. Short-premium structures like a iron condor on FET carry tail risk when realized volatility exceeds the implied move; review historical FET earnings reactions and macro stress periods before sizing. Always rebuild the position from current FET chain quotes before placing a trade.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a iron condor on FET?
- A iron condor on FET is the iron condor strategy applied to FET (stock). The strategy is structurally neutral / range-bound: An iron condor sells a call spread and a put spread at strikes outside spot, collecting net premium that is kept if the underlying stays inside the inner short strikes. With FET stock trading near $56.05, the strikes shown on this page are snapped to the nearest listed FET chain strike and the premiums come straight from the end-of-day bid/ask midpoint.
- How are FET iron condor max profit and max loss calculated?
- Max profit equals the net credit times 100 inside the inner strikes; max loss equals wing width minus credit times 100. Two breakevens at inner strikes plus and minus the credit. For the FET iron condor priced from the end-of-day chain at a 30-day expiry (ATM IV 52.90%), 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 FET iron condor?
- The breakeven for the FET iron condor 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 FET market-implied 1-standard-deviation expected move is approximately 15.17%; if the move sits well outside the breakeven distance, the structure's risk-reward becomes correspondingly tighter.
- When should you consider a iron condor on FET?
- Iron condors on FET are a delta-neutral premium-collection structure that profits if FET stock stays inside the inner short strikes; short strikes typically sit near 1 standard deviation from spot.
- How does current FET implied volatility affect this iron condor?
- FET ATM IV is at 52.90% with IV rank near 26.81%, 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.