Trading a ALT straddle lets you take a pure volatility position on Altimmune Inc without committing to a direction. Altimmune 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 ALT straddle pricing in real time and find the moments when expected moves are mispriced.
A long straddle on ALT 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 Altimmune 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 ALT straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.
Altimmune, Inc., a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, focuses on developing treatments for obesity and liver diseases. The company's lead product candidate, pemvidutide (proposed INN, formerly known as ALT-801), is a GLP-1/glucagon dual receptor agonist that is in Phase 1b trial for the treatment of obesity and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis. It is also developing HepTcell, an immunotherapeutic product candidate, which is in Phase 2 clinical trial for patients chronically infected with the hepatitis B virus. The company was formerly known as Vaxin Inc. and changed its name to Altimmune, Inc.
Earnings, product cycles, macro prints — any time volatility itself is the trade, the ALT straddle is the cleanest expression of that view. Our scanner prices every ALT 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 ALT straddle into a catalyst or short a ALT straddle to harvest decay, the options straddle setups that matter are all in one place.
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