Moelis & Co (MC) Expected Move

Tracking the MC expected move helps you see how far Moelis & Co's options market is pricing the stock to travel over a given period — whether that's the next day, week, or earnings cycle. Moelis & Co's expected move is derived directly from option premiums and gives you an objective range to plan trades, set strikes, and manage risk. Use our scanner to monitor the MC expected move for this week's options, in real time.

The expected move is typically calculated from at-the-money straddle prices (or a blend of straddles and strangles) and represents roughly a one-standard-deviation range over the chosen timeframe. For MC, comparing the implied expected move to actual realized moves over similar windows tells you whether the options market has historically overestimated or underestimated volatility. The MC expected move for this week's options pricing is especially useful for short-dated traders, earnings players, and anyone selling premium who needs to know where the market thinks Moelis & Co is unlikely to go.

Moelis & Company operates as an investment banking advisory firm. It offers advisory services in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations and restructurings, capital markets transactions, and other corporate finance matters. The company offers its services to public multinational corporations, middle market private companies, financial sponsors, entrepreneurs, governments, and sovereign wealth funds. The company serves its clients in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. It has strategic alliances in Mexico with Alfaro, Dávila y Scherer, S.C.; and in Australia with MA Moelis Australia.

The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Iron condors, weekly premium sales, directional swing trades — they all live or die by where the market thinks the stock won't go. Our scanner tracks the MC expected move across every expiration, benchmarks it against realized moves, and shows you when implied ranges are out of line with history. The Moelis & Co expected move for this week's options is the fastest read on short-term risk, which gives you a quick way to interpret what the options market thinks about MC.