Trading a AXP straddle lets you take a pure volatility position on American Express Co without committing to a direction. American Express Co'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 AXP straddle pricing in real time and find the moments when expected moves are mispriced.
A long straddle on AXP 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 American Express Co 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 AXP straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.
American Express Company, together with its subsidiaries, provides charge and credit payment card products, and travel-related services worldwide. The company operates through three segments: Global Consumer Services Group, Global Commercial Services, and Global Merchant and Network Services. Its products and services include payment and financing products; network services; accounts payable expense management products and services; and travel and lifestyle services. The company's products and services also comprise merchant acquisition and processing, servicing and settlement, point-of-sale marketing, and information products and services for merchants; and fraud prevention services, as well as the design and operation of customer loyalty programs.
It sells its products and services to consumers, small businesses, mid-sized companies, and large corporations through mobile and online applications, third-party vendors and business partners, direct mail, telephone, in-house sales teams, and direct response advertising. American Express Company was founded in 1850 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
Earnings, product cycles, macro prints — any time volatility itself is the trade, the AXP straddle is the cleanest expression of that view. Our scanner prices every AXP 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 AXP straddle into a catalyst or short a AXP straddle to harvest decay, the options straddle setups that matter are all in one place.
