Cognex Corp (CGNX) Straddle

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

A long straddle on CGNX 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 Cognex 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 CGNX straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.

Cognex Corporation provides machine vision products that capture and analyze visual information in order to automate manufacturing and distribution tasks worldwide. Its machine vision products are used to automate the manufacturing and tracking of discrete items, including mobile phones, aspirin bottles, and automobile tires by locating, identifying, inspecting, and measuring them during the manufacturing or distribution process. The company offers VisionPro software, a suite of patented vision tools for advanced programming; QuickBuild that allows customers to build vision applications with a graphical, flowchart-based programming interface; and Cognex deep learning vision software.

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