OMEX Strangle Strategy
OMEX (Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc.), in the Industrials sector, (Specialty Business Services industry), listed on NASDAQ.
Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, discovers, validates, and develops seafloor resources worldwide. The company provides specialized mineral exploration, project development, and marine services to clients. It also offers resource assessment, project planning, research, and project management services. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Tampa, Florida.
OMEX (Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc.) trades in the Industrials sector, specifically Specialty Business Services, with a market capitalization of approximately $35.5M, a trailing P/E of 0.21, a beta of -0.24 versus the broader market, a 52-week range of 0.72-4.43, average daily share volume of 5.9M, a public-listing history dating back to 1999, approximately 11 full-time employees. These structural characteristics shape how OMEX stock options price implied volatility around earnings windows, capital events, and macro-driven sector rotations.
A beta of -0.24 indicates OMEX 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 0.21 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 OMEX?
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 OMEX snapshot
As of May 15, 2026, spot at $1.08, ATM IV 392.60%, IV rank 95.69%, expected move 112.56%. The strangle on OMEX 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 strangle structure on OMEX specifically: OMEX IV at 392.60% is rich versus its 1-year range, which makes a premium-buying OMEX strangle relatively expensive in absolute-cost terms, with a market-implied 1-standard-deviation move of approximately 112.56% (roughly $1.22 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 OMEX expiries trade a higher absolute premium for lower per-day decay. Position sizing on OMEX should anchor to the underlying notional of $1.08 per share and to the trader's directional view on OMEX stock.
OMEX strangle setup
The OMEX 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 OMEX near $1.08, the first option leg uses a $1.13 strike; additional legs (when the strategy has them) anchor to spot-relative offsets. Premiums come from the bid/ask midpoint on the listed OMEX 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 OMEX shares for the stock leg in covered calls and collars).
| Action | Type | Strike / Basis | Premium (est) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buy 1 | Call | $1.13 | N/A |
| Buy 1 | Put | $1.03 | N/A |
OMEX strangle 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
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.
OMEX strangle payoff curve
Modeled P&L at expiration across a range of underlying prices for the strangle on OMEX. 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 strangle on OMEX
Strangles on OMEX 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 OMEX chain.
OMEX thesis for this strangle
The market-implied 1-standard-deviation range for OMEX extends from approximately $-0.14 on the downside to $2.30 on the upside. A OMEX 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 OMEX IV rank near 95.69% sits in the upper third of its 1-year distribution, which historically reverts; this raises the bar for premium-buying structures and lowers it for premium-selling structures on OMEX at 392.60%. As a Industrials name, OMEX options can move on sector-level news flow (peer earnings, regulatory updates, industry-specific macro data) in addition to OMEX-specific events.
OMEX 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. OMEX positions also carry Industrials sector concentration risk; news flow inside the sector (peer earnings, regulatory shifts, supply-chain headlines) can move OMEX alongside the broader basket even when OMEX-specific fundamentals are unchanged. Always rebuild the position from current OMEX chain quotes before placing a trade.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a strangle on OMEX?
- A strangle on OMEX is the strangle strategy applied to OMEX (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 OMEX stock trading near $1.08, the strikes shown on this page are snapped to the nearest listed OMEX chain strike and the premiums come straight from the end-of-day bid/ask midpoint.
- How are OMEX 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 OMEX strangle priced from the end-of-day chain at a 30-day expiry (ATM IV 392.60%), 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 OMEX strangle?
- The breakeven for the OMEX strangle 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 OMEX market-implied 1-standard-deviation expected move is approximately 112.56%; if the move sits well outside the breakeven distance, the structure's risk-reward becomes correspondingly tighter.
- When should you consider a strangle on OMEX?
- Strangles on OMEX 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 OMEX chain.
- How does current OMEX implied volatility affect this strangle?
- OMEX ATM IV is at 392.60% with IV rank near 95.69%, which is elevated relative to its 1-year range. Premium-selling structures (covered call, cash-secured put, iron condor) generally look more attractive when IV rank is high; premium-buying structures (long call, long put, debit spreads) are more expensive in that regime.