Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance Inc (ARI) Straddle

Trading a ARI straddle lets you take a pure volatility position on Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance Inc without committing to a direction. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance 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 ARI straddle pricing in real time and find the moments when expected moves are mispriced.

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

Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc. operates as a real estate investment trust (REIT) that originates, acquires, invests in, and manages commercial first mortgage loans, subordinate financings, and other commercial real estate-related debt investments in the United States. It is qualified as a REIT under the Internal Revenue Code. As a REIT, it would not be subject to federal income taxes, if the company distributes at least 90% of its REIT taxable income to its stockholders. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is based in New York, New York.

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