Alibaba Group Holding Ltd ADR (BABA) Straddle

Trading a BABA straddle lets you take a pure volatility position on Alibaba Group Holding Ltd ADR without committing to a direction. Alibaba Group Holding Ltd ADR'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 BABA straddle pricing in real time and find the moments when expected moves are mispriced.

A long straddle on BABA 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 Alibaba Group Holding Ltd ADR 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 BABA straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.

Alibaba Group Holding Limited, through its subsidiaries, provides technology infrastructure and marketing reach to help merchants, brands, retailers, and other businesses to engage with their users and customers in the People's Republic of China and internationally. The company operates through seven segments: China Commerce, International Commerce, Local Consumer Services, Cainiao, Cloud, Digital Media and Entertainment, and Innovation Initiatives and Others. It operates Taobao and Tmall, which are digital retail platforms; Alimama, a proprietary monetization platform; 1688.com and Alibaba.com, which are online wholesale marketplaces; AliExpress, a retail marketplace; Lazada, Trendyol, and Daraz that are e-commerce platforms; Freshippo, a retail platform for groceries and fresh goods; and Tmall Global, an import e-commerce platform.

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