Cash-Secured Put Entries on Mega Caps
Cash-Secured Put27 trades pass on SCHW
- Annualized return
- 2.7% to 20.8%
- Probability of profit
- 74.7% to 98.7%
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SCHW last closed at $92.98 with 30-day implied volatility of 25.1%. That is in the lower half of its one-year range (IV rank 28), so premiums are on the modest side for SCHW. Measured by IV percentile, IV is higher than 23% of the past year's readings. Options expiring Dec 11 (28 days out) price a one standard deviation move of about $6.43, or 6.9%.
The price is below both its 50-day (-4.2%) and 200-day (-4.2%) moving averages. It is 18.2% below its 52-week high and 8.9% above its 52-week low. The 14-day RSI of 49.4 is between 30 and 70, neither overbought nor oversold. The 14-day average true range is $2.16, about 2.3% of the price, a measure of a typical day's range.
Option volume at the close (18.3K contracts) was 0.9x its average, close to normal. A beta of 0.44 means SCHW has tended to move about 0.4 times as much as the broad market. 5 of our preset screens found trades on SCHW at the close, led by Cash-Secured Put Entries on Mega Caps with 27 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 | 24.5% | ±$3.15 (3.4%) | $89.83 to $96.13 | $2.52 |
| Dec 11, 202628 days | 25.0% | ±$6.43 (6.9%) | $86.55 to $99.41 | $5.13 |
| Jan 15, 202763 days | 25.8% | ±$9.96 (10.7%) | $83.02 to $102.94 | $7.95 |
| Feb 19, 202798 days | 27.8% | ±$13.41 (14.4%) | $79.57 to $106.39 | $10.68 |
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 SCHW 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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