PI Cash-Secured Put Strategy
PI (Impinj, Inc.), in the Technology sector, (Semiconductors industry), listed on NASDAQ.
Impinj, Inc., established in 2000 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, provides a sophisticated cloud connectivity platform across the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. This comprehensive platform facilitates the wireless linking of individual physical items, subsequently transmitting vital data about these connected objects to a diverse range of business and consumer software applications. The company's offerings are built around several interconnected product families. Firstly, it features "endpoint ICs," which are miniature radio-on-a-chip components designed to be affixed to an item, supplying it with a unique identifier. Secondly, "systems products" include reader ICs, standalone readers, and gateways. These components work in unison to wirelessly power and enable bidirectional communication with endpoint ICs on host items, as well as to execute tasks such as reading, writing, authenticating, and interacting with them.
PI (Impinj, Inc.) trades in the Technology sector, specifically Semiconductors, with a market capitalization of approximately $5.28B, a beta of 1.91 versus the broader market, a 52-week range of 87.36-247.064, average daily share volume of 467K, a public-listing history dating back to 2016, approximately 457 full-time employees. These structural characteristics shape how PI stock options price implied volatility around earnings windows, capital events, and macro-driven sector rotations.
A beta of 1.91 indicates PI has historically moved more than the broader market, amplifying both the directional payoff and the realized volatility relative to an index-equivalent position.
What is a cash-secured put on PI?
A cash-secured put sells an out-of-the-money put while holding cash equal to the strike-times-100 obligation, keeping the premium when the underlying stays above the strike.
PI snapshot
As of August 14, 2026, spot at $173.28, ATM IV 60.30%, IV rank 21.20%, expected move 17.29%. The cash-secured put on PI below is built from the August 14, 2026 end-of-day chain, with strikes snapped to listed contracts and premiums pulled from the bid/ask midpoint at a 35-day expiry.
Why this cash-secured put structure on PI specifically: PI IV at 60.30% is on the cheap side of its 1-year range, which means a premium-selling PI cash-secured put collects less credit per unit of strike-width risk, with a market-implied 1-standard-deviation move of approximately 17.29% (roughly $29.96 on the underlying). The 35-day window matched to the front-month expiry keeps theta exposure bounded while still capturing the post-snapshot move; longer-dated PI expiries trade a higher absolute premium for lower per-day decay. Position sizing on PI should anchor to the underlying notional of $173.28 per share and to the trader's directional view on PI stock.
PI cash-secured put setup
The PI cash-secured put below is built from the August 14, 2026 end-of-day chain, with each option leg priced at the bid/ask midpoint of its listed strike. With PI at $173.28 on that close, the first option leg uses a $165.00 strike; additional legs (when the strategy has them) anchor to spot-relative offsets. Premiums come from the bid/ask midpoint on the listed PI chain at a 35-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 PI shares for the stock leg in covered calls and collars).
| Action | Type | Strike / Basis | Premium (est) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sell 1 | Put | $165.00 | $9.45 |
PI cash-secured put risk and reward
- Net Premium / Debit
- +$945.00
- Max Profit (per contract)
- $945.00
- Max Loss (per contract)
- -$15,554.00
- Breakeven(s)
- $155.55
- Risk / Reward Ratio
- 0.061
Max profit equals premium times 100; max loss equals strike minus premium times 100 (at zero, assuming assignment). Breakeven is strike minus premium.
PI cash-secured put payoff curve
Modeled P&L at expiration across a range of underlying prices for the cash-secured put on PI. 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% | -$15,554.00 |
| $38.32 | -77.9% | -$11,722.79 |
| $76.63 | -55.8% | -$7,891.59 |
| $114.95 | -33.7% | -$4,060.38 |
| $153.26 | -11.6% | -$229.18 |
| $191.57 | +10.6% | +$945.00 |
| $229.88 | +32.7% | +$945.00 |
| $268.19 | +54.8% | +$945.00 |
| $306.51 | +76.9% | +$945.00 |
| $344.82 | +99.0% | +$945.00 |
When traders use cash-secured put on PI
Cash-secured puts on PI earn premium while a trader waits to acquire PI stock at a target strike below the current quote; most attractive when IV is rich and the trader is comfortable owning PI.
PI thesis for this cash-secured put
The market-implied 1-standard-deviation range for PI extends from approximately $143.32 on the downside to $203.24 on the upside. A PI cash-secured put lets a trader earn premium while waiting to acquire PI at the strike price; the strategy is most attractive when the trader is comfortable holding the underlying at that level and IV is rich enough to compensate for the assignment risk. Current PI IV rank near 21.20% 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 PI at 60.30%. As a Technology name, PI options can move on sector-level news flow (peer earnings, regulatory updates, industry-specific macro data) in addition to PI-specific events.
PI cash-secured put positions are structurally neutral to slightly bullish; 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. PI positions also carry Technology sector concentration risk; news flow inside the sector (peer earnings, regulatory shifts, supply-chain headlines) can move PI alongside the broader basket even when PI-specific fundamentals are unchanged. Short-premium structures like a cash-secured put on PI carry tail risk when realized volatility exceeds the implied move; review historical PI earnings reactions and macro stress periods before sizing. Always rebuild the position from current PI chain quotes before placing a trade.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a cash-secured put on PI?
- A cash-secured put on PI is the cash-secured put strategy applied to PI (stock). The strategy is structurally neutral to slightly bullish: A cash-secured put sells an out-of-the-money put while holding cash equal to the strike-times-100 obligation, keeping the premium when the underlying stays above the strike. With PI stock at $173.28 on the August 14, 2026 close, the strikes shown on this page are snapped to the nearest listed PI chain strike and the premiums come straight from that session's bid/ask midpoint.
- How are PI cash-secured put max profit and max loss calculated?
- Max profit equals premium times 100; max loss equals strike minus premium times 100 (at zero, assuming assignment). Breakeven is strike minus premium. For the PI cash-secured put priced from the August 14, 2026 end-of-day chain at a 30-day expiry (ATM IV 60.30%), the computed maximum profit is $945.00 per contract and the computed maximum loss is -$15,554.00 per contract. Live intraday quotes will differ as the chain moves through the trading session.
- What is the breakeven for a PI cash-secured put?
- The breakeven for the PI cash-secured put priced on this page is roughly $155.55 at expiration, derived from the August 14, 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 PI market-implied 1-standard-deviation expected move in the same options snapshot is approximately 17.29%; if the move sits well outside the breakeven distance, the structure's risk-reward becomes correspondingly tighter.
- When should you consider a cash-secured put on PI?
- Cash-secured puts on PI earn premium while a trader waits to acquire PI stock at a target strike below the current quote; most attractive when IV is rich and the trader is comfortable owning PI.
- How does current PI implied volatility affect this cash-secured put?
- PI ATM IV is at 60.30% with IV rank near 21.20%, 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.