Long Call Butterflies for Pinning
Call Butterfly15 trades pass on BMY
- Return on risk
- 102.0% to 1,000%+
- Probability of profit
- 11.9% to 77.3%
Bristol Myers Squibb Co · Healthcare
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BMY last closed at $63.43 with 30-day implied volatility of 31.7%. That is in the upper half of its one-year range (IV rank 55), so premiums are somewhat richer than usual for BMY. Measured by IV percentile, IV is higher than 69% of the past year's readings. Options expiring Dec 11 (28 days out) price a one standard deviation move of about $5.59, or 8.8%.
The price is above both its 50-day (+2.3%) and 200-day (+5.3%) moving averages. It is 6.8% below its 52-week high and 38.5% above its 52-week low. The 14-day RSI of 55.8 is between 30 and 70, neither overbought nor oversold. The 14-day average true range is $1.77, about 2.8% of the price, a measure of a typical day's range.
Option volume at the close (24.5K contracts) was 1.1x its average, close to normal. A beta of 0.22 means BMY has tended to move about 0.2 times as much as the broad market. 2 of our preset screens found trades on BMY at the close, led by Long Call Butterflies for Pinning with 15 trades.
Expected move = price x at-the-money IV x the square root of (days to expiration / 365), a one standard deviation range. The straddle is the at-the-money call plus put, the market's own price for a move. Compare expected moves across stocks.
| Expiration | IV | Expected move | 1 SD range | Straddle |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 20, 20267 days | 40.7% | ±$3.57 (5.6%) | $59.86 to $67.00 | $2.87 |
| Dec 11, 202628 days | 31.8% | ±$5.59 (8.8%) | $57.84 to $69.02 | $4.47 |
| Jan 15, 202763 days | 33.6% | ±$8.86 (14.0%) | $54.57 to $72.29 | $7.07 |
| Feb 19, 202798 days | 37.9% | ±$12.45 (19.6%) | $50.98 to $75.88 | $9.88 |
Each expiration has its own implied volatility, and short-dated IV reacts more to near-term events, so the nearest expiration can differ a lot from the 30-day figure.
Counts and ranges for BMY from our preset scans at the last close. Open a preset in the app to see each trade with its strikes, prices, and risk, refreshed intraday. Income strategies show annualized return; the rest show return on risk.
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