Fortive Corp (FTV) Straddle

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

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

Fortive Corporation designs, develops, manufactures, markets, and services professional and engineered products, software, and services worldwide. Its Intelligent Operating Solutions segment offers connected reliability tools; environment, health, safety, and quality enterprise software products; facility and asset lifecycle software; pre-construction planning and construction procurement solutions; ruggedized professional test tools; electric, pressure, and temperature calibration tools; and portable gas detection tools for a range of vertical end markets including manufacturing, process industries, healthcare, utilities and power, communications and electronics, and others.

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