Trading a MC straddle lets you take a pure volatility position on Moelis & Co without committing to a direction. Moelis & Co'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 MC straddle pricing in real time and find the moments when expected moves are mispriced.
A long straddle on MC 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 Moelis & Co 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 MC straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.
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.
Earnings, product cycles, macro prints — any time volatility itself is the trade, the MC straddle is the cleanest expression of that view. Our scanner prices every MC 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 MC straddle into a catalyst or short a MC straddle to harvest decay, the options straddle setups that matter are all in one place.
