Trading a KSS straddle lets you take a pure volatility position on Kohl's Corp without committing to a direction. Kohl's Corp'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 KSS straddle pricing in real time and find the moments when expected moves are mispriced.
A long straddle on KSS 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 Kohl's Corp 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 KSS straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.
Kohl's Corporation operates as a retail company in the United States. It offers branded apparel, footwear, accessories, beauty, and home products through its stores and website. The company provides its products primarily under the brand names of Apt. 9, Croft & Barrow, Jumping Beans, SO, and Sonoma Goods for Life, as well as Food Network, LC Lauren Conrad, Nine West, and Simply Vera Vera Wang. As of March 21, 2022, it operated approximately 1,100 Kohl's stores and a website www.Kohls.com. Kohl's Corporation was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin.
Earnings, product cycles, macro prints — any time volatility itself is the trade, the KSS straddle is the cleanest expression of that view. Our scanner prices every KSS 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 KSS straddle into a catalyst or short a KSS straddle to harvest decay, the options straddle setups that matter are all in one place.
