Trading a FXZ straddle lets you take a pure volatility position on First Trust Materials AlphaDEX Fund without committing to a direction. First Trust Materials 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 FXZ straddle pricing in real time and find the moments when expected moves are mispriced.
A long straddle on FXZ 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 Materials 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 FXZ straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.
The First Trust Materials 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 StrataQuant Materials Index.
Earnings, product cycles, macro prints — any time volatility itself is the trade, the FXZ straddle is the cleanest expression of that view. Our scanner prices every FXZ 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 FXZ straddle into a catalyst or short a FXZ straddle to harvest decay, the options straddle setups that matter are all in one place.
