Trading a MED straddle lets you take a pure volatility position on Medifast Inc without committing to a direction. Medifast 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 MED straddle pricing in real time and find the moments when expected moves are mispriced.
A long straddle on MED 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 Medifast 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 MED straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.
Medifast, Inc., through its subsidiaries, manufactures and distributes weight loss, weight management, healthy living products, and other consumable health and nutritional products in the United States and the Asia-Pacific. The company offers bars, bites, pretzels, puffs, cereal crunch, drinks, hearty choices, oatmeal, pancakes, pudding, soft serves, shakes, smoothies, soft bakes, and soups under the OPTAVIA, Optimal Health by Take Shape for Life, and Flavors of Home brands. It markets its products through point-of-sale transactions over ecommerce platform. The company was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland.
Earnings, product cycles, macro prints — any time volatility itself is the trade, the MED straddle is the cleanest expression of that view. Our scanner prices every MED 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 MED straddle into a catalyst or short a MED straddle to harvest decay, the options straddle setups that matter are all in one place.
