Trading a DTD straddle lets you take a pure volatility position on WisdomTree U.S. Total Dividend Fund without committing to a direction. WisdomTree U.S. Total Dividend Fund'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 DTD straddle pricing in real time and find the moments when expected moves are mispriced.
A long straddle on DTD 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 WisdomTree U.S. Total Dividend Fund 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 DTD straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.
The fund invests at least 95% of its total assets (exclusive of collateral held from securities lending) will be invested in the component securities of the index and investments that have economic characteristics that are substantially identical to the economic characteristics of such component securities. The index is a fundamentally-weighted index that is comprised of U.S. companies listed on a U.S. stock market that pay regular cash dividends. The fund is non-diversified.
Earnings, product cycles, macro prints — any time volatility itself is the trade, the DTD straddle is the cleanest expression of that view. Our scanner prices every DTD 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 DTD straddle into a catalyst or short a DTD straddle to harvest decay, the options straddle setups that matter are all in one place.
