Trading a KOS straddle lets you take a pure volatility position on Kosmos Energy Ltd without committing to a direction. Kosmos Energy Ltd'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 KOS straddle pricing in real time and find the moments when expected moves are mispriced.
A long straddle on KOS 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 Kosmos Energy Ltd 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 KOS straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.
Kosmos Energy Ltd., a deep-water independent oil and gas exploration and production company, focuses along the Atlantic Margins. The company's primary assets include production offshore Ghana, Equatorial Guinea, and the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, as well as a gas development offshore Mauritania and Senegal. It also maintains a proven basin exploration program. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.
Earnings, product cycles, macro prints — any time volatility itself is the trade, the KOS straddle is the cleanest expression of that view. Our scanner prices every KOS 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 KOS straddle into a catalyst or short a KOS straddle to harvest decay, the options straddle setups that matter are all in one place.
