Trading a HLIO straddle lets you take a pure volatility position on Helios Technologies Inc without committing to a direction. Helios Technologies 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 HLIO straddle pricing in real time and find the moments when expected moves are mispriced.
A long straddle on HLIO 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 Helios Technologies 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 HLIO straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.
Helios Technologies, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, and sells solutions for the hydraulics and electronics markets in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. The company operates in two segments, Hydraulics and Electronics. The Hydraulics segment offers cartridge valve technology products to control rates and direction of fluid flow, and to regulate and control pressures for industrial and mobile applications; quick release coupling solutions for the agriculture, construction equipment, and industrial markets; and hydraulic system design that provides engineered solutions for machine users, manufacturers, or designers.
This segment sells its products under the Sun Hydraulics, Faster, and Custom Fluidpower brands. The Electronics segment offers displays, controls, and instrumentation products for off-highway, recreational and commercial marine, power sports and specialty vehicles, agriculture and water pumping, power generation, health and wellness, and engine-driven industrial equipment markets. This segment sells its products under the Enovation Controls, Murphy, and Balboa Water Group brands. It sells its hydraulic products primarily through value-add distributors, as well as directly to original equipment manufacturers; and electronic products to original equipment manufacturer customers. The company was formerly known as Sun Hydraulics Corporation and changed its name to Helios Technologies, Inc. in June 2019. Helios Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in Sarasota, Florida.
Earnings, product cycles, macro prints — any time volatility itself is the trade, the HLIO straddle is the cleanest expression of that view. Our scanner prices every HLIO 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 HLIO straddle into a catalyst or short a HLIO straddle to harvest decay, the options straddle setups that matter are all in one place.
