Allison Transmission Holdings Inc (ALSN) Straddle

Trading a ALSN straddle lets you take a pure volatility position on Allison Transmission Holdings Inc without committing to a direction. Allison Transmission Holdings 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 ALSN straddle pricing in real time and find the moments when expected moves are mispriced.

A long straddle on ALSN 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 Allison Transmission Holdings 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 ALSN straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.

Allison Transmission Holdings, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and sells commercial and defense fully-automatic transmissions for medium-and heavy-duty commercial vehicles, and medium-and heavy-tactical U.S. defense vehicles worldwide. It offers transmissions for various applications, including distribution, refuse, construction, fire, and emergency on-highway trucks; school and transit buses; motor homes; energy, mining, and construction off-highway vehicles and equipment; and wheeled and tracked defense vehicles. The company markets its transmissions under the Allison Transmission brand name; and remanufactured transmissions under the ReTran brand name.

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