Goldman Sachs BDC Inc (GSBD) Straddle

Trading a GSBD straddle lets you take a pure volatility position on Goldman Sachs BDC Inc without committing to a direction. Goldman Sachs BDC Inc'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 GSBD straddle pricing in real time and find the moments when expected moves are mispriced.

A long straddle on GSBD 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 Goldman Sachs BDC Inc 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 GSBD straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.

Goldman Sachs BDC, Inc. is a business development company specializing in middle market and mezzanine investment in private companies. It seeks to make capital appreciation through direct originations of secured debt, senior secured debt, junior secured debt, including first lien, first lien/last-out unitranche and second lien debt, unsecured debt, including mezzanine debt and, to a lesser extent, investments in equities. The fund primarily invests in United States. It seeks to invest between $10 million and $75 million in companies with EBITDA between $5 million and $75 million annually.

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