SPCI Bear Put Spread Strategy
SPCI (Tuttle Capital Space Industry Income Blast ETF), in the Financial Services sector, (Asset Management industry), listed on CBOE.
SPCI is an actively managed ETF that seeks to provide exposure to the price performance of the constituents of the Syntax Space Index through equity positions, call options, and synthetic long positions. The equally-weighted index is typically comprised of 10 to 50 companies with significant space-related business activities. The objective of the fund is to achieve approximately 100% economic exposure of the indexs upside performance. To reach the targeted exposure, SPCI will utilize exchange-traded call options on the index, including deep in-the-money calls, along with synthetic long positions that combine long call options and sold put options with the same strike price and expiration date. The fund will also employ a systematic put credit spread strategy for income by selling near-the-money puts to collect premiums and simultaneously buying out-of-the-money puts to cap downside risk on each company. Weekly income distributions are targeted.
SPCI (Tuttle Capital Space Industry Income Blast ETF) trades in the Financial Services sector, specifically Asset Management, with a market capitalization of approximately $15.9M, a beta of 6.24 versus the broader market, a 52-week range of 19.42-52.9, average daily share volume of 20K, a public-listing history dating back to 2026. These structural characteristics shape how SPCI stock options price implied volatility around earnings windows, capital events, and macro-driven sector rotations.
A beta of 6.24 indicates SPCI has historically moved more than the broader market, amplifying both the directional payoff and the realized volatility relative to an index-equivalent position. SPCI 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 SPCI?
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.
SPCI snapshot
As of August 14, 2026, spot at $25.23, ATM IV 71.60%, expected move 20.53%. The bear put spread on SPCI 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 bear put spread structure on SPCI specifically: IV rank is unavailable in the current snapshot, so regime-based timing for SPCI is inferred from ATM IV at 71.60% alone, with a market-implied 1-standard-deviation move of approximately 20.53% (roughly $5.18 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 SPCI expiries trade a higher absolute premium for lower per-day decay. Position sizing on SPCI should anchor to the underlying notional of $25.23 per share and to the trader's directional view on SPCI stock.
SPCI bear put spread setup
The SPCI bear put spread 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 SPCI at $25.23 on that close, the first option leg uses a $25.00 strike; additional legs (when the strategy has them) anchor to spot-relative offsets. Premiums come from the bid/ask midpoint on the listed SPCI 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 SPCI shares for the stock leg in covered calls and collars).
| Action | Type | Strike / Basis | Premium (est) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buy 1 | Put | $25.00 | $2.19 |
| Sell 1 | Put | $24.00 | $1.69 |
SPCI bear put spread risk and reward
- Net Premium / Debit
- -$50.00
- Max Profit (per contract)
- $50.00
- Max Loss (per contract)
- -$50.00
- Breakeven(s)
- $24.50
- Risk / Reward Ratio
- 1.000
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.
SPCI bear put spread payoff curve
Modeled P&L at expiration across a range of underlying prices for the bear put spread on SPCI. 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% | +$50.00 |
| $5.59 | -77.9% | +$50.00 |
| $11.16 | -55.7% | +$50.00 |
| $16.74 | -33.6% | +$50.00 |
| $22.32 | -11.5% | +$50.00 |
| $27.90 | +10.6% | -$50.00 |
| $33.47 | +32.7% | -$50.00 |
| $39.05 | +54.8% | -$50.00 |
| $44.63 | +76.9% | -$50.00 |
| $50.21 | +99.0% | -$50.00 |
When traders use bear put spread on SPCI
Bear put spreads on SPCI reduce the cost of a bearish SPCI stock position by selling a lower-strike put; suited to moderate-decline theses where price reaches but does not vastly exceed the short strike.
SPCI thesis for this bear put spread
The market-implied 1-standard-deviation range for SPCI extends from approximately $20.05 on the downside to $30.41 on the upside. A SPCI bear put spread caps both the risk and the reward of a bearish position; relative to an outright long put on SPCI, the spread reduces the cost basis but limits the maximum profit to the strike width minus net debit. As a Financial Services name, SPCI options can move on sector-level news flow (peer earnings, regulatory updates, industry-specific macro data) in addition to SPCI-specific events.
SPCI 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. SPCI positions also carry Financial Services sector concentration risk; news flow inside the sector (peer earnings, regulatory shifts, supply-chain headlines) can move SPCI alongside the broader basket even when SPCI-specific fundamentals are unchanged. Long-premium structures like a bear put spread on SPCI 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 SPCI chain quotes before placing a trade.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a bear put spread on SPCI?
- A bear put spread on SPCI is the bear put spread strategy applied to SPCI (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 SPCI stock at $25.23 on the August 14, 2026 close, the strikes shown on this page are snapped to the nearest listed SPCI chain strike and the premiums come straight from that session's bid/ask midpoint.
- How are SPCI 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 SPCI bear put spread priced from the August 14, 2026 end-of-day chain at a 30-day expiry (ATM IV 71.60%), the computed maximum profit is $50.00 per contract and the computed maximum loss is -$50.00 per contract. Live intraday quotes will differ as the chain moves through the trading session.
- What is the breakeven for a SPCI bear put spread?
- The breakeven for the SPCI bear put spread priced on this page is roughly $24.50 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 SPCI market-implied 1-standard-deviation expected move in the same options snapshot is approximately 20.53%; 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 SPCI?
- Bear put spreads on SPCI reduce the cost of a bearish SPCI 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 SPCI implied volatility affect this bear put spread?
- Current SPCI ATM IV is 71.60%; IV rank context is unavailable in the current snapshot.