Axis Capital Holdings Ltd (AXS) Straddle

Trading a AXS straddle lets you take a pure volatility position on Axis Capital Holdings Ltd without committing to a direction. Axis Capital Holdings Ltd'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 AXS straddle pricing in real time and find the moments when expected moves are mispriced.

A long straddle on AXS 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 Axis Capital Holdings Ltd 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 AXS straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.

AXIS Capital Holdings Limited, through its subsidiaries, provides various specialty insurance and reinsurance products worldwide. It operates through two segments, Insurance and Reinsurance. The Insurance segment offers property insurance products for commercial buildings, residential premises, construction projects, and onshore energy installations; marine insurance products covering offshore energy, cargo, liability, recreational marine, fine art, specie, and hull war; and terrorism, aviation, credit and political risk, and liability insurance products. It also provides professional insurance products that cover directors' and officers' liability, errors and omissions liability, employment practices liability, fiduciary liability, crime, professional indemnity, cyber and privacy, medical malpractice, and other financial insurance related coverages for commercial enterprises, financial institutions, not-for-profit organizations, and other professional service providers.

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