Trading a CWS straddle lets you take a pure volatility position on AdvisorShares Focused Equity ETF without committing to a direction. AdvisorShares Focused Equity ETF'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 CWS straddle pricing in real time and find the moments when expected moves are mispriced.
A long straddle on CWS 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 AdvisorShares Focused Equity ETF 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 CWS straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.
Complement to any Broad-Based Index Fund — CWS’s strategy seeks to avoid the fundamentally weak companies that index-based funds generally hold and only invest in those perceived as “first in class” firms. Low Turnover — CWS’s strategy is focused on the long term. That’s why CWS aims for a buy-and-hold strategy, trading as infrequently as possible and holding for as long as it can. CWS believes that a disciplined buy-and-hold strategy is ideal for riding out market storms. Innovative Fulcrum Fee Structure — CWS’s Portfolio Strategist’s manager fee is directly tied to performance: outperformance is rewarded with a larger management fee; underperformance is penalized with a smaller management fee.
Disciplined Alpha Seeking Strategy — CWS is focused on a core group of what we believe are outstanding firms, offering investors a simple way to get instant exposure to a concentrated equity portfolio of companies with proven competitive advantages.
Earnings, product cycles, macro prints — any time volatility itself is the trade, the CWS straddle is the cleanest expression of that view. Our scanner prices every CWS 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 CWS straddle into a catalyst or short a CWS straddle to harvest decay, the options straddle setups that matter are all in one place.
