Trading a PIT straddle lets you take a pure volatility position on VanEck Commodity Strategy ETF without committing to a direction. VanEck Commodity Strategy ETF'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 PIT straddle pricing in real time and find the moments when expected moves are mispriced.
A long straddle on PIT 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 VanEck Commodity Strategy ETF 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 PIT straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.
VanEck Commodity Strategy ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to provide long-term capital appreciation. The Fund invests primarily in exchange-traded commodity futures contracts across the energy, precious metals, industrial metals, agriculture and livestock sectors and seeks to maximize risk-adjusted returns.
Earnings, product cycles, macro prints — any time volatility itself is the trade, the PIT straddle is the cleanest expression of that view. Our scanner prices every PIT 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 PIT straddle into a catalyst or short a PIT straddle to harvest decay, the options straddle setups that matter are all in one place.
