Trading a CDW straddle lets you take a pure volatility position on CDW Corp without committing to a direction. CDW 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 CDW straddle pricing in real time and find the moments when expected moves are mispriced.
A long straddle on CDW 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 CDW 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 CDW straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.
CDW Corporation provides information technology (IT) solutions in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. It operates through three segments: Corporate, Small Business, and Public. The company offers discrete hardware and software products and services, as well as integrated IT solutions, including on-premise, hybrid, and cloud capabilities across data center and networking, digital workspace, and security. Its hardware products comprise notebooks/mobile devices, network communications, desktop computers, video monitors, enterprise and data storage, and others; and software products consists of application suites, security, virtualization, operating systems, and network management.
The company also provides advisory and design, software development, implementation, managed, professional, configuration, and telecom services, as well as warranties; mission critical software, systems, and network solutions; and implementation and installation, and repair services to its customers through various third-party service providers. It serves government, education, and healthcare customers; and small, medium, and large business customers. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Vernon Hills, Illinois.
Earnings, product cycles, macro prints — any time volatility itself is the trade, the CDW straddle is the cleanest expression of that view. Our scanner prices every CDW 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 CDW straddle into a catalyst or short a CDW straddle to harvest decay, the options straddle setups that matter are all in one place.
