Oxford Square Capital Corp (OXSQ) Straddle

Trading a OXSQ straddle lets you take a pure volatility position on Oxford Square Capital Corp without committing to a direction. Oxford Square Capital Corp'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 OXSQ straddle pricing in real time and find the moments when expected moves are mispriced.

A long straddle on OXSQ 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 Oxford Square Capital Corp 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 OXSQ straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.

Oxford Square Capital Corp. is a business development company, operates as a closed-end, non-diversified management investment company. It is a private equity and mezzanine firm. The firm invests in both public and private companies. It invests in secured and unsecured senior debt, subordinated debt, junior subordinated debt, preferred stock, common stock and syndicated bank loans. The firm primarily invests in debt and/or equity securities of technology-related companies that operate in the computer software, Internet, information technology infrastructure and services, media, telecommunications and telecommunications equipment, semiconductors, hardware, technology-enabled services, semiconductor capital equipment, medical device technology, diversified technology, and networking systems sectors.

It concentrates its investments in companies having annual revenues of less than $200 million and a market capitalization or enterprise value of less than $300 million. The firm invests between $5 million and $30 million per transaction. It seeks to exit its investments within 7 years. It serves as the investment adviser to TICC. Oxford Square Capital Corp., formerly known as TICC Capital Corp., was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut.

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