GPOR Strangle Strategy
GPOR (Gulfport Energy Corp), in the Energy sector, (Oil & Gas Exploration & Production industry), listed on NYSE.
Gulfport Energy Corp. is an independent oil natural gas exploration and production company. The firm focuses on the exploration, exploitation, acquisition and production of natural gas, liquids, and crude oil in the United States. Its principal producing properties are located along the Louisiana Gulf Coast. The company was founded in July 1997 and is headquartered in Oklahoma City, OK.
GPOR (Gulfport Energy Corp) trades in the Energy sector, specifically Oil & Gas Exploration & Production, with a market capitalization of approximately $2.93B, a trailing P/E of 5.09, a beta of 0.40 versus the broader market, a 52-week range of 158.91-225.78, average daily share volume of 317K, a public-listing history dating back to 2021, approximately 245 full-time employees. These structural characteristics shape how GPOR stock options price implied volatility around earnings windows, capital events, and macro-driven sector rotations.
A beta of 0.40 indicates GPOR has historically moved less than the broader market, dampening realized volatility and producing tighter expected-move bands per unit of dollar exposure. The trailing P/E of 5.09 is on the value side, where IV often compresses outside event windows because forward growth expectations are already discounted into the share price.
What is a strangle on GPOR?
A long strangle buys an OTM call and an OTM put at offset strikes, cheaper than a straddle but requiring a larger underlying move to profit since both wings start out-of-the-money.
Current GPOR snapshot
As of June 30, 2026, spot at $169.69, ATM IV 28.80%, IV rank 13.11%, expected move 8.26%. The strangle on GPOR 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 17-day expiry.
Why this strangle structure on GPOR specifically: GPOR IV at 28.80% is on the cheap side of its 1-year range, which favors premium-buying structures like a GPOR strangle, with a market-implied 1-standard-deviation move of approximately 8.26% (roughly $14.01 on the underlying). The 17-day window matched to the front-month expiry keeps theta exposure bounded while still capturing the post-snapshot move; longer-dated GPOR expiries trade a higher absolute premium for lower per-day decay. Position sizing on GPOR should anchor to the underlying notional of $169.69 per share and to the trader's directional view on GPOR stock.
GPOR strangle setup
The GPOR strangle below is built from the end-of-day chain, with each option leg priced at the bid/ask midpoint of its listed strike. With GPOR near $169.69, the first option leg uses a $180.00 strike; additional legs (when the strategy has them) anchor to spot-relative offsets. Premiums come from the bid/ask midpoint on the listed GPOR chain at a 17-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 GPOR shares for the stock leg in covered calls and collars).
| Action | Type | Strike / Basis | Premium (est) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buy 1 | Call | $180.00 | $1.28 |
| Buy 1 | Put | $160.00 | $2.78 |
GPOR strangle risk and reward
- Net Premium / Debit
- -$405.00
- Max Profit (per contract)
- Unbounded
- Max Loss (per contract)
- -$405.00
- Breakeven(s)
- $155.95, $184.05
- Risk / Reward Ratio
- Unbounded
Upside max profit is unbounded; downside max profit is bounded at the put strike minus the combined debit (reached at zero). Max loss equals the combined debit times 100 (reached anywhere between the two OTM strikes). Two breakevens at call-strike plus debit and put-strike minus debit.
GPOR strangle payoff curve
Modeled P&L at expiration across a range of underlying prices for the strangle on GPOR. 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% | +$15,594.00 |
| $37.53 | -77.9% | +$11,842.17 |
| $75.05 | -55.8% | +$8,090.34 |
| $112.56 | -33.7% | +$4,338.51 |
| $150.08 | -11.6% | +$586.68 |
| $187.60 | +10.6% | +$355.15 |
| $225.12 | +32.7% | +$4,106.97 |
| $262.64 | +54.8% | +$7,858.80 |
| $300.16 | +76.9% | +$11,610.63 |
| $337.67 | +99.0% | +$15,362.46 |
When traders use strangle on GPOR
Strangles on GPOR are the cheaper cousin of the straddle - traders use them when they want a large directional move but are willing to give up the inner-strike sensitivity in exchange for a lower up-front debit on the GPOR chain.
GPOR thesis for this strangle
The market-implied 1-standard-deviation range for GPOR extends from approximately $155.68 on the downside to $183.70 on the upside. A GPOR long strangle is the OTM cousin of the straddle: lower up-front cost but the underlying has to travel further past either OTM strike before the position turns profitable at expiration. Current GPOR IV rank near 13.11% 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 GPOR at 28.80%. As a Energy name, GPOR options can move on sector-level news flow (peer earnings, regulatory updates, industry-specific macro data) in addition to GPOR-specific events.
GPOR strangle positions are structurally neutral / high-volatility (long premium, OTM); 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. GPOR positions also carry Energy sector concentration risk; news flow inside the sector (peer earnings, regulatory shifts, supply-chain headlines) can move GPOR alongside the broader basket even when GPOR-specific fundamentals are unchanged. Always rebuild the position from current GPOR chain quotes before placing a trade.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a strangle on GPOR?
- A strangle on GPOR is the strangle strategy applied to GPOR (stock). The strategy is structurally neutral / high-volatility (long premium, OTM): A long strangle buys an OTM call and an OTM put at offset strikes, cheaper than a straddle but requiring a larger underlying move to profit since both wings start out-of-the-money. With GPOR stock trading near $169.69, the strikes shown on this page are snapped to the nearest listed GPOR chain strike and the premiums come straight from the end-of-day bid/ask midpoint.
- How are GPOR strangle max profit and max loss calculated?
- Upside max profit is unbounded; downside max profit is bounded at the put strike minus the combined debit (reached at zero). Max loss equals the combined debit times 100 (reached anywhere between the two OTM strikes). Two breakevens at call-strike plus debit and put-strike minus debit. For the GPOR strangle priced from the end-of-day chain at a 30-day expiry (ATM IV 28.80%), the computed maximum profit is unbounded per contract and the computed maximum loss is -$405.00 per contract. Live intraday quotes will differ as the chain moves through the trading session.
- What is the breakeven for a GPOR strangle?
- The breakeven for the GPOR strangle priced on this page is roughly $155.95 and $184.05 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 GPOR market-implied 1-standard-deviation expected move is approximately 8.26%; if the move sits well outside the breakeven distance, the structure's risk-reward becomes correspondingly tighter.
- When should you consider a strangle on GPOR?
- Strangles on GPOR are the cheaper cousin of the straddle - traders use them when they want a large directional move but are willing to give up the inner-strike sensitivity in exchange for a lower up-front debit on the GPOR chain.
- How does current GPOR implied volatility affect this strangle?
- GPOR ATM IV is at 28.80% with IV rank near 13.11%, 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.