Ares Commercial Real Estate Corp (ACRE) Straddle

Trading a ACRE straddle lets you take a pure volatility position on Ares Commercial Real Estate Corp without committing to a direction. Ares Commercial Real Estate Corp'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 ACRE straddle pricing in real time and find the moments when expected moves are mispriced.

A long straddle on ACRE 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 Ares Commercial Real Estate Corp 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 ACRE straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.

Ares Commercial Real Estate Corporation, a specialty finance company, originates and invests in commercial real estate (CRE) loans and related investments in the United States. The company provides a range of financing solutions for the owners, operators, and sponsors of CRE properties. It originates senior mortgage loans, subordinate debt products, mezzanine loans, real estate preferred equity investments, and other CRE investments, including commercial mortgage backed securities. The company has elected and qualified to be taxed as a real estate investment trust for the United States federal income tax purposes under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.

Ares Commercial Real Estate Management LLC operates as the manager of the company. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in New York, New York.

Earnings, product cycles, macro prints — any time volatility itself is the trade, the ACRE straddle is the cleanest expression of that view. Our scanner prices every ACRE 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 ACRE straddle into a catalyst or short a ACRE straddle to harvest decay, the options straddle setups that matter are all in one place.