SRCE Strangle Strategy
SRCE (1st Source Corporation), in the Financial Services sector, (Banks - Regional industry), listed on NASDAQ.
1st Source Corporation operates as the bank holding company for 1st Source Bank that provides commercial and consumer banking services, trust and wealth advisory services, and insurance products to individual and business clients. Its consumer banking services include checking and savings accounts; certificates of deposit; individual retirement accounts; online and mobile banking products; consumer loans, real estate mortgage loans, and home equity lines of credit; and financial planning, financial literacy, and other consultative services, as well as debit and credit cards. The company also offers commercial, small business, agricultural, and real estate loans for general corporate purposes, including financing for industrial and commercial properties, equipment, inventories, accounts receivables, and renewable energy and acquisition financing; and commercial leasing, treasury management, and retirement planning services. In addition, it provides trust, investment, agency, and custodial services comprising administration of estates and personal trusts, as well as management of investment accounts for individuals, employee benefit plans, and charitable foundations. Further, the company offers equipment loan and lease products for construction equipment, new and pre-owned aircraft, auto and light trucks, and medium and heavy duty trucks; and finances construction equipment, aircrafts, medium and heavy duty trucks, step vans, vocational work trucks, motor coaches, shuttle buses, funeral cars, automobiles, and other equipment. Additionally, it provides corporate and personal property, casualty, and individual and group health and life insurance products and services.
SRCE (1st Source Corporation) trades in the Financial Services sector, specifically Banks - Regional, with a market capitalization of approximately $1.72B, a trailing P/E of 10.81, a beta of 0.59 versus the broader market, a 52-week range of 56.89-76.44, average daily share volume of 145K, a public-listing history dating back to 1983, approximately 1K full-time employees. These structural characteristics shape how SRCE stock options price implied volatility around earnings windows, capital events, and macro-driven sector rotations.
A beta of 0.59 indicates SRCE 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 10.81 is on the value side, where IV often compresses outside event windows because forward growth expectations are already discounted into the share price. SRCE pays a dividend, which adjusts put-call parity and shifts the ex-dividend pricing across the listed chain.
What is a strangle on SRCE?
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 SRCE snapshot
As of May 15, 2026, spot at $71.22, ATM IV 29.20%, IV rank 3.75%, expected move 8.37%. The strangle on SRCE 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 SRCE specifically: SRCE IV at 29.20% is on the cheap side of its 1-year range, which favors premium-buying structures like a SRCE strangle, with a market-implied 1-standard-deviation move of approximately 8.37% (roughly $5.96 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 SRCE expiries trade a higher absolute premium for lower per-day decay. Position sizing on SRCE should anchor to the underlying notional of $71.22 per share and to the trader's directional view on SRCE stock.
SRCE strangle setup
The SRCE 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 SRCE near $71.22, the first option leg uses a $74.78 strike; additional legs (when the strategy has them) anchor to spot-relative offsets. Premiums come from the bid/ask midpoint on the listed SRCE 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 SRCE shares for the stock leg in covered calls and collars).
| Action | Type | Strike / Basis | Premium (est) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buy 1 | Call | $74.78 | N/A |
| Buy 1 | Put | $67.66 | N/A |
SRCE 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.
SRCE strangle payoff curve
Modeled P&L at expiration across a range of underlying prices for the strangle on SRCE. 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 SRCE
Strangles on SRCE 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 SRCE chain.
SRCE thesis for this strangle
The market-implied 1-standard-deviation range for SRCE extends from approximately $65.26 on the downside to $77.18 on the upside. A SRCE 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 SRCE IV rank near 3.75% 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 SRCE at 29.20%. As a Financial Services name, SRCE options can move on sector-level news flow (peer earnings, regulatory updates, industry-specific macro data) in addition to SRCE-specific events.
SRCE 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. SRCE positions also carry Financial Services sector concentration risk; news flow inside the sector (peer earnings, regulatory shifts, supply-chain headlines) can move SRCE alongside the broader basket even when SRCE-specific fundamentals are unchanged. Always rebuild the position from current SRCE chain quotes before placing a trade.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a strangle on SRCE?
- A strangle on SRCE is the strangle strategy applied to SRCE (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 SRCE stock trading near $71.22, the strikes shown on this page are snapped to the nearest listed SRCE chain strike and the premiums come straight from the end-of-day bid/ask midpoint.
- How are SRCE 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 SRCE strangle priced from the end-of-day chain at a 30-day expiry (ATM IV 29.20%), 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 SRCE strangle?
- The breakeven for the SRCE 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 SRCE market-implied 1-standard-deviation expected move is approximately 8.37%; if the move sits well outside the breakeven distance, the structure's risk-reward becomes correspondingly tighter.
- When should you consider a strangle on SRCE?
- Strangles on SRCE 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 SRCE chain.
- How does current SRCE implied volatility affect this strangle?
- SRCE ATM IV is at 29.20% with IV rank near 3.75%, 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.