Trading a LAUR straddle lets you take a pure volatility position on Laureate Education Inc without committing to a direction. Laureate Education 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 LAUR straddle pricing in real time and find the moments when expected moves are mispriced.
A long straddle on LAUR 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 Laureate Education 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 LAUR straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.
Laureate Education, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides higher education programs and services to students through a network of universities and higher education institutions. The company offers a range of undergraduate and graduate degree programs in the areas of business and management, medicine and health sciences, and engineering and information technology through campus-based, online, and hybrid programs. It provides its services in Mexico, Peru, and the United States. The company was formerly known as Sylvan Learning Systems, Inc. and changed its name to Laureate Education, Inc.
in May 2004. Laureate Education, Inc. was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Miami, Florida.
Earnings, product cycles, macro prints — any time volatility itself is the trade, the LAUR straddle is the cleanest expression of that view. Our scanner prices every LAUR 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 LAUR straddle into a catalyst or short a LAUR straddle to harvest decay, the options straddle setups that matter are all in one place.
