Trading a AFL straddle lets you take a pure volatility position on Aflac Inc without committing to a direction. Aflac Inc'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 AFL straddle pricing in real time and find the moments when expected moves are mispriced.
A long straddle on AFL 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 Aflac Inc 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 AFL straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.
Aflac Incorporated, through its subsidiaries, provides supplemental health and life insurance products. It operates through two segments, Aflac Japan and Aflac U.S. The Aflac Japan segment offers cancer, medical, nursing care income support, GIFT, and whole and term life insurance products, as well as WAYS and child endowment plans under saving type insurance products in Japan. The Aflac U.S. segment provides cancer, accident, short-term disability, critical illness, hospital indemnity, dental, vision, long-term care and disability, and term and whole life insurance products in the United States.
It sells its products through sales associates, brokers, independent corporate agencies, individual agencies, and affiliated corporate agencies. The company was founded in 1955 and is based in Columbus, Georgia.
Earnings, product cycles, macro prints — any time volatility itself is the trade, the AFL straddle is the cleanest expression of that view. Our scanner prices every AFL 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 AFL straddle into a catalyst or short a AFL straddle to harvest decay, the options straddle setups that matter are all in one place.
