SSB Iron Condor Strategy
SSB (SouthState Bank Corp.), in the Financial Services sector, (Banks - Regional industry), listed on NYSE.
SouthState Bank Corporation operates as the bank holding company for SouthState Bank, National Association that provides a range of banking services and products to individuals and companies in the United States. The company offers checking accounts, savings accounts, money market accounts, and time deposit accounts; interest-bearing deposits, certificates of deposits, and other time deposits; and interest-bearing transaction accounts. It provides bond accounting services for correspondents, asset/liability consulting related activities, international wires, and other clearing and corporate checking account services. In addition, the company offers commercial real estate, residential real estate, and commercial and industrial loans, as well as consumer loans, including auto, boat, and personal installment, as well as business, agriculture, real estate-secured (mortgage), home improvement, and manufactured housing loans. Further, it provides debit and credit card, mobile services, funds transfer products and services, and treasury management services comprising merchant, automated clearing house, lock-box, remote deposit capture, and other treasury services, as well as asset and wealth management, and other fiduciary and private banking services. Additionally, the company offers safe deposit boxes, bank money orders, wire transfer and ACH services, brokerage services, and alternative investment products, such as annuities and mutual funds, trust and asset management services; letters of credit and home equity lines of credit; and online, mobile, and telephone banking platforms.
SSB (SouthState Bank Corp.) trades in the Financial Services sector, specifically Banks - Regional, with a market capitalization of approximately $10.70B, a trailing P/E of 11.37, a beta of 0.71 versus the broader market, a 52-week range of 84.48-110.81, average daily share volume of 846K, a public-listing history dating back to 1997, approximately 6K full-time employees. These structural characteristics shape how SSB stock options price implied volatility around earnings windows, capital events, and macro-driven sector rotations.
A beta of 0.71 places SSB roughly in line with broader market moves, so the strategy payoff and realized volatility track the index-equivalent baseline. The trailing P/E of 11.37 is on the value side, where IV often compresses outside event windows because forward growth expectations are already discounted into the share price. SSB pays a dividend, which adjusts put-call parity and shifts the ex-dividend pricing across the listed chain.
What is a iron condor on SSB?
An iron condor sells a call spread and a put spread at strikes outside spot, collecting net premium that is kept if the underlying stays inside the inner short strikes.
SSB snapshot
As of August 14, 2026, spot at $111.57, ATM IV 422.70%, IV rank 84.42%, expected move 121.18%. The iron condor on SSB 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 iron condor structure on SSB specifically: SSB IV at 422.70% is rich versus its 1-year range, which favors premium-selling structures like a SSB iron condor, with a market-implied 1-standard-deviation move of approximately 121.18% (roughly $135.20 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 SSB expiries trade a higher absolute premium for lower per-day decay. Position sizing on SSB should anchor to the underlying notional of $111.57 per share and to the trader's directional view on SSB stock.
SSB iron condor setup
The SSB iron condor 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 SSB at $111.57 on that close, the first option leg uses a $115.00 strike; additional legs (when the strategy has them) anchor to spot-relative offsets. Premiums come from the bid/ask midpoint on the listed SSB 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 SSB shares for the stock leg in covered calls and collars).
| Action | Type | Strike / Basis | Premium (est) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sell 1 | Call | $115.00 | $1.41 |
| Buy 1 | Call | $125.00 | $0.06 |
| Sell 1 | Put | $105.00 | $0.77 |
| Buy 1 | Put | $100.00 | $0.19 |
SSB iron condor risk and reward
- Net Premium / Debit
- +$193.00
- Max Profit (per contract)
- $193.00
- Max Loss (per contract)
- -$807.00
- Breakeven(s)
- $103.07, $116.93
- Risk / Reward Ratio
- 0.239
Max profit equals the net credit times 100 inside the inner strikes; max loss equals wing width minus credit times 100. Two breakevens at inner strikes plus and minus the credit.
SSB iron condor payoff curve
Modeled P&L at expiration across a range of underlying prices for the iron condor on SSB. 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% | -$307.00 |
| $24.68 | -77.9% | -$307.00 |
| $49.35 | -55.8% | -$307.00 |
| $74.01 | -33.7% | -$307.00 |
| $98.68 | -11.6% | -$307.00 |
| $123.35 | +10.6% | -$641.82 |
| $148.02 | +32.7% | -$807.00 |
| $172.68 | +54.8% | -$807.00 |
| $197.35 | +76.9% | -$807.00 |
| $222.02 | +99.0% | -$807.00 |
When traders use iron condor on SSB
Iron condors on SSB are a delta-neutral premium-collection structure that profits if SSB stock stays inside the inner short strikes; short strikes typically sit near 1 standard deviation from spot.
SSB thesis for this iron condor
The market-implied 1-standard-deviation range for SSB extends from approximately $-23.63 on the downside to $246.77 on the upside. A SSB iron condor is a delta-neutral premium-collection structure that pays off when SSB stays inside the inner short strikes through expiration; the wing width should reflect the trader's tolerance for the maximum loss scenario where the underlying breaches an outer strike. Current SSB IV rank near 84.42% 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 SSB at 422.70%. As a Financial Services name, SSB options can move on sector-level news flow (peer earnings, regulatory updates, industry-specific macro data) in addition to SSB-specific events.
SSB iron condor positions are structurally neutral / range-bound; 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. SSB positions also carry Financial Services sector concentration risk; news flow inside the sector (peer earnings, regulatory shifts, supply-chain headlines) can move SSB alongside the broader basket even when SSB-specific fundamentals are unchanged. Short-premium structures like a iron condor on SSB carry tail risk when realized volatility exceeds the implied move; review historical SSB earnings reactions and macro stress periods before sizing. Always rebuild the position from current SSB chain quotes before placing a trade.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a iron condor on SSB?
- A iron condor on SSB is the iron condor strategy applied to SSB (stock). The strategy is structurally neutral / range-bound: An iron condor sells a call spread and a put spread at strikes outside spot, collecting net premium that is kept if the underlying stays inside the inner short strikes. With SSB stock at $111.57 on the August 14, 2026 close, the strikes shown on this page are snapped to the nearest listed SSB chain strike and the premiums come straight from that session's bid/ask midpoint.
- How are SSB iron condor max profit and max loss calculated?
- Max profit equals the net credit times 100 inside the inner strikes; max loss equals wing width minus credit times 100. Two breakevens at inner strikes plus and minus the credit. For the SSB iron condor priced from the August 14, 2026 end-of-day chain at a 30-day expiry (ATM IV 422.70%), the computed maximum profit is $193.00 per contract and the computed maximum loss is -$807.00 per contract. Live intraday quotes will differ as the chain moves through the trading session.
- What is the breakeven for a SSB iron condor?
- The breakeven for the SSB iron condor priced on this page is roughly $103.07 and $116.93 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 SSB market-implied 1-standard-deviation expected move in the same options snapshot is approximately 121.18%; if the move sits well outside the breakeven distance, the structure's risk-reward becomes correspondingly tighter.
- When should you consider a iron condor on SSB?
- Iron condors on SSB are a delta-neutral premium-collection structure that profits if SSB stock stays inside the inner short strikes; short strikes typically sit near 1 standard deviation from spot.
- How does current SSB implied volatility affect this iron condor?
- SSB ATM IV is at 422.70% with IV rank near 84.42%, 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.