Mercury Systems Inc (MRCY) Straddle

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

A long straddle on MRCY 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 Mercury Systems 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 MRCY straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.

Mercury Systems, Inc., a technology company, manufactures and sells components, products, modules, and subsystems for aerospace and defense industries in the United States, Europe, and the Asia Pacific. Its products and solutions are deployed in approximately 300 programs with 25 defense contractors and commercial aviation customers. The company offers components, including power amplifiers and limiters, switches, oscillators, filters, equalizers, digital and analog converters, chips, monolithic microwave integrated circuits, and memory and storage devices; modules and sub-assemblies, such as embedded processing modules and boards, switched fabric boards, digital receiver boards, multi-chip modules, integrated radio frequency and microwave multi-function assemblies, tuners, and transceivers, as well as graphics and video processing, and Ethernet and input-output boards; and integrated subsystems.

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