Trading a GDS straddle lets you take a pure volatility position on GDS Holdings Limited ADR without committing to a direction. GDS Holdings Limited ADR'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 GDS straddle pricing in real time and find the moments when expected moves are mispriced.
A long straddle on GDS 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 GDS Holdings Limited ADR 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 GDS straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.
GDS Holdings Limited, together with its subsidiaries, develops and operates data centers in the People's Republic of China. The company provides colocation services comprising critical facilities space, customer-available power, racks, and cooling; managed hosting services, including business continuity and disaster recovery, network management, data storage, system security, operating system, database, and server middleware services; managed cloud services; and consulting services. It serves cloud service providers, large Internet companies, financial institutions, telecommunications and IT service providers, and large domestic private sector and multinational corporations.
The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Shanghai, the People's Republic of China.
Earnings, product cycles, macro prints — any time volatility itself is the trade, the GDS straddle is the cleanest expression of that view. Our scanner prices every GDS 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 GDS straddle into a catalyst or short a GDS straddle to harvest decay, the options straddle setups that matter are all in one place.
