Trading a ACM straddle lets you take a pure volatility position on AECOM without committing to a direction. AECOM'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 ACM straddle pricing in real time and find the moments when expected moves are mispriced.
A long straddle on ACM 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 AECOM 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 ACM straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.
AECOM, together with its subsidiaries, provides professional infrastructure consulting services for governments, businesses, and organizations in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. It operates through three segments: Americas, International, and AECOM Capital. The company offers planning, consulting, architectural and engineering design, construction and program management, and investment and development services to commercial and government clients. It also invests in and develops real estate projects. In addition, the company provides construction services, including building construction and energy, and infrastructure and industrial construction.
It serves transportation, water, government, facilities, environmental, and energy sectors. The company was formerly known as AECOM Technology Corporation and changed its name to AECOM in January 2015. AECOM was incorporated in 1980 and is headquartered Dallas, Texas.
Earnings, product cycles, macro prints — any time volatility itself is the trade, the ACM straddle is the cleanest expression of that view. Our scanner prices every ACM 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 ACM straddle into a catalyst or short a ACM straddle to harvest decay, the options straddle setups that matter are all in one place.
