UAMY Long Call Strategy
UAMY (United States Antimony Corporation), in the Basic Materials sector, (Industrial Materials industry), listed on NYSE.
United States Antimony Corporation produces and sells antimony, zeolite, and precious metals in the United States and Canada. It operates in two segments: Antimony and Zeolite. The company offers antimony trioxide that is primarily used in conjunction with a halogen to form a synergistic flame retardant system for plastics, rubber, fiberglass, textile goods, paints, coatings, and paper, as well as color fastener in paints and as a phosphorescent agent in fluorescent light bulbs; antimony metal for use in bearings, storage batteries, and ordnance; and antimony trisulfide used as a primer in ammunition. The company also offers coarse and fine zeolite for soil amendment and fertilizer, water filtration, mine underground ventilation, sewage treatment, nuclear waste and other environmental cleanup, odor control, gas separation, and animal nutrition applications, as well as catalysts, petroleum refining, concrete, solar energy and heat exchange, desiccants, pellet binding, horse and kitty litter, floor cleaner, traction control, ammonia removal from mining waste, and carriers for insecticides, pesticides and herbicides. In addition, it recovers unrefined and refined gold and silver. United States Antimony Corporation was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.
UAMY (United States Antimony Corporation) trades in the Basic Materials sector, specifically Industrial Materials, with a market capitalization of approximately $1.03B, a beta of 0.31 versus the broader market, a 52-week range of 1.94-19.71, average daily share volume of 11.2M, a public-listing history dating back to 2000, approximately 101 full-time employees. These structural characteristics shape how UAMY stock options price implied volatility around earnings windows, capital events, and macro-driven sector rotations.
A beta of 0.31 indicates UAMY has historically moved less than the broader market, dampening realized volatility and producing tighter expected-move bands per unit of dollar exposure.
What is a long call on UAMY?
A long call buys upside exposure with a fixed maximum loss equal to the premium paid; profit accrues if the underlying closes above the strike plus premium at expiration.
Current UAMY snapshot
As of June 30, 2026, spot at $7.31, ATM IV 104.71%, IV rank 10.40%, expected move 30.02%. The long call on UAMY 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 31-day expiry.
Why this long call structure on UAMY specifically: UAMY IV at 104.71% is on the cheap side of its 1-year range, which favors premium-buying structures like a UAMY long call, with a market-implied 1-standard-deviation move of approximately 30.02% (roughly $2.19 on the underlying). The 31-day window matched to the front-month expiry keeps theta exposure bounded while still capturing the post-snapshot move; longer-dated UAMY expiries trade a higher absolute premium for lower per-day decay. Position sizing on UAMY should anchor to the underlying notional of $7.31 per share and to the trader's directional view on UAMY stock.
UAMY long call setup
The UAMY long call below is built from the end-of-day chain, with each option leg priced at the bid/ask midpoint of its listed strike. With UAMY near $7.31, the first option leg uses a $7.50 strike; additional legs (when the strategy has them) anchor to spot-relative offsets. Premiums come from the bid/ask midpoint on the listed UAMY chain at a 31-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 UAMY shares for the stock leg in covered calls and collars).
| Action | Type | Strike / Basis | Premium (est) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buy 1 | Call | $7.50 | $0.83 |
UAMY long call risk and reward
- Net Premium / Debit
- -$82.50
- Max Profit (per contract)
- Unbounded
- Max Loss (per contract)
- -$82.50
- Breakeven(s)
- $8.33
- Risk / Reward Ratio
- Unbounded
Max profit is unbounded; max loss equals the premium paid times 100. Breakeven is strike plus premium.
UAMY long call payoff curve
Modeled P&L at expiration across a range of underlying prices for the long call on UAMY. 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 | -99.9% | -$82.50 |
| $1.63 | -77.8% | -$82.50 |
| $3.24 | -55.7% | -$82.50 |
| $4.86 | -33.6% | -$82.50 |
| $6.47 | -11.5% | -$82.50 |
| $8.09 | +10.6% | -$23.91 |
| $9.70 | +32.7% | +$137.61 |
| $11.32 | +54.8% | +$299.12 |
| $12.93 | +76.9% | +$460.64 |
| $14.55 | +99.0% | +$622.16 |
When traders use long call on UAMY
Long calls on UAMY express a bullish thesis with defined risk; traders use them ahead of UAMY catalysts (earnings, product launches, macro events) when the expected upside justifies the premium and theta decay.
UAMY thesis for this long call
The market-implied 1-standard-deviation range for UAMY extends from approximately $5.12 on the downside to $9.50 on the upside. A UAMY long call expresses a directional view that the underlying closes above the strike plus premium at expiration, ideally with implied volatility holding or expanding to preserve extrinsic value through the hold period. Current UAMY IV rank near 10.40% 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 UAMY at 104.71%. As a Basic Materials name, UAMY options can move on sector-level news flow (peer earnings, regulatory updates, industry-specific macro data) in addition to UAMY-specific events.
UAMY long call positions are structurally 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. UAMY positions also carry Basic Materials sector concentration risk; news flow inside the sector (peer earnings, regulatory shifts, supply-chain headlines) can move UAMY alongside the broader basket even when UAMY-specific fundamentals are unchanged. Long-premium structures like a long call on UAMY 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 UAMY chain quotes before placing a trade.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a long call on UAMY?
- A long call on UAMY is the long call strategy applied to UAMY (stock). The strategy is structurally bullish: A long call buys upside exposure with a fixed maximum loss equal to the premium paid; profit accrues if the underlying closes above the strike plus premium at expiration. With UAMY stock trading near $7.31, the strikes shown on this page are snapped to the nearest listed UAMY chain strike and the premiums come straight from the end-of-day bid/ask midpoint.
- How are UAMY long call max profit and max loss calculated?
- Max profit is unbounded; max loss equals the premium paid times 100. Breakeven is strike plus premium. For the UAMY long call priced from the end-of-day chain at a 30-day expiry (ATM IV 104.71%), the computed maximum profit is unbounded per contract and the computed maximum loss is -$82.50 per contract. Live intraday quotes will differ as the chain moves through the trading session.
- What is the breakeven for a UAMY long call?
- The breakeven for the UAMY long call priced on this page is roughly $8.33 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 UAMY market-implied 1-standard-deviation expected move is approximately 30.02%; if the move sits well outside the breakeven distance, the structure's risk-reward becomes correspondingly tighter.
- When should you consider a long call on UAMY?
- Long calls on UAMY express a bullish thesis with defined risk; traders use them ahead of UAMY catalysts (earnings, product launches, macro events) when the expected upside justifies the premium and theta decay.
- How does current UAMY implied volatility affect this long call?
- UAMY ATM IV is at 104.71% with IV rank near 10.40%, 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.