Live Oak Bancshares Inc (LOB) Straddle

Trading a LOB straddle lets you take a pure volatility position on Live Oak Bancshares Inc without committing to a direction. Live Oak Bancshares 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 LOB straddle pricing in real time and find the moments when expected moves are mispriced.

A long straddle on LOB 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 Live Oak Bancshares 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 LOB straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.

Live Oak Bancshares, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for Live Oak Banking Company that provides various commercial banking products and services to individuals, small businesses, and professionals in North Carolina, the United States. The company accepts various deposit products, including noninterest-bearing demand, as well as interest-bearing checking, money market, savings, and time deposits. It also offers commercial and industrial loans; construction and development loans; owner occupied and non-owner occupied collateral commercial real estate loans; and commercial land loans. In addition, the company provides settlement, accounting, and securitization services for government guaranteed loans; wealth and investment management services to high-net-worth individuals and families; investment advisory services to a series of funds focused on providing venture capital to new and emerging financial technology companies; and an on-site restaurant location to company employees and business visitors.

Live Oak Bancshares, Inc. was incorporated in 2008 and is headquartered in Wilmington, North Carolina.

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