Trading a FTA straddle lets you take a pure volatility position on First Trust Large Capital Value AlphaDEX Fund without committing to a direction. First Trust Large Capital Value AlphaDEX 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 FTA straddle pricing in real time and find the moments when expected moves are mispriced.
A long straddle on FTA 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 First Trust Large Capital Value AlphaDEX 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 FTA straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.
The First Trust Large Cap Value AlphaDEX Fund is an exchange-traded fund. The investment objective of the Fund is to seek investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield, before fees and expenses, of an equity index called the Nasdaq AlphaDEX Large Cap Value Index.
Earnings, product cycles, macro prints — any time volatility itself is the trade, the FTA straddle is the cleanest expression of that view. Our scanner prices every FTA 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 FTA straddle into a catalyst or short a FTA straddle to harvest decay, the options straddle setups that matter are all in one place.
