Aptus Collared Investment Opportunity ETF (ACIO) Straddle

Trading a ACIO straddle lets you take a pure volatility position on Aptus Collared Investment Opportunity ETF without committing to a direction. Aptus Collared Investment Opportunity ETF's straddle involves buying (or selling) a call and a put at the same strike and expiration, profiting when the stock moves more (or less) than the combined premium implies. Use our scanner to evaluate ACIO straddle pricing in real time and find the moments when expected moves are mispriced.

A long straddle on ACIO profits from large moves in either direction and is a classic play into binary events like earnings, product announcements, or macro releases. A short straddle profits when Aptus Collared Investment Opportunity ETF stays range-bound and implied volatility contracts. The breakeven points are simple: strike plus total premium on the upside, strike minus total premium on the downside. Comparing the ACIO straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.

An actively-managed strategy seeking growth and income using covered calls on individual equities. The strategy invests in 70-80 large cap stocks and pursues additional income by selling covered calls on those stocks. ACIO has an added goal of minimizing downside using long put options on a broad-based market Index.

Earnings, product cycles, macro prints — any time volatility itself is the trade, the ACIO straddle is the cleanest expression of that view. Our scanner prices every ACIO straddle against historical realized moves, flags expirations where the market is overpaying or underpaying for vol, and ranks setups by breakeven width and IV rank. Whether you're long a ACIO straddle into a catalyst or short a ACIO straddle to harvest decay, the options straddle setups that matter are all in one place.