CVR Energy Inc (CVI) Straddle

Trading a CVI straddle lets you take a pure volatility position on CVR Energy Inc without committing to a direction. CVR Energy Inc'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 CVI straddle pricing in real time and find the moments when expected moves are mispriced.

A long straddle on CVI 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 CVR Energy Inc 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 CVI straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.

CVR Energy, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the petroleum refining and nitrogen fertilizer manufacturing activities in the United States. It operates in two segments, Petroleum and Nitrogen Fertilizer. The Petroleum segment refines and markets gasoline, diesel fuel, and other refined products. It also owns and operates a coking medium-sour crude oil refinery in southeast Kansas; and a crude oil refinery in Wynnewood, Oklahoma, as well as supporting logistics assets. This segment primarily serves retailers, railroads, farm co-operatives, and other refiners/marketers. The Nitrogen Fertilizer segment owns and operates a nitrogen fertilizer plant in North America that utilizes a pet coke gasification process to produce nitrogen fertilizer products; and a nitrogen fertilizer facility in East Dubuque, Illinois that produces nitrogen fertilizers in the form of ammonia and urea ammonium nitrate (UAN).

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