ArrowMark Financial Corp (BANX) Straddle

Trading a BANX straddle lets you take a pure volatility position on ArrowMark Financial Corp without committing to a direction. ArrowMark Financial Corp'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 BANX straddle pricing in real time and find the moments when expected moves are mispriced.

A long straddle on BANX 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 ArrowMark Financial Corp 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 BANX straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.

StoneCastle Financial Corp. is a closed ended balanced mutual fund launched and managed by StoneCastle Asset Management LLC. It invests in public equity markets of the United States. The fund invests in stocks of companies operating across the banking sector. It invests in dividend paying growth and value stocks of companies. For its fixed income portion, the fund invests in subordinated debt securities which are rated BBB- or better by Kroll Ratings. The fund employs fundamental analysis with bottom-up security picking approach by focusing on factors such as review of historical and prospective financial information, interviews with management and key employees of the prospective bank, financial models and projections, changes in interest rates, changes in unemployment rates, changes in home prices, changes in economic activity to create its portfolio.

It employs proprietary research to create its portfolio. StoneCastle Financial Corp. was formed on February 7, 2013 and is domiciled in the United States.

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