Digimarc Corp (DMRC) Straddle

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

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

Digimarc Corporation provides automatic identification solutions to commercial and government customers in the United States and internationally. The company offers Digimarc watermarks, a data carrier that provides a digital identity to media objects; Digimarc Discover, a software for computing devices and network interfaces that recognize and decode indicia of the identity of media; and Digimarc Verify, a suite of software tools used to inspect and verify that the identification and discovery of media. Its solutions are used in various application solutions, such as product authentication of physical products; sorting of consumer-packaged goods in recycling streams; track and trace of products within the supply chain; quality control in manufacturing processes; inventory management and planogram compliance; retail point of sale transaction processing; piracy deterrence of digital media objects; content identification and media management; and enhanced services in support of mobile commerce.

The company offers its solutions through its sales personnel and business partners. Digimarc Corporation was incorporated in 2008 and is based in Beaverton, Oregon.

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