Pricesmart Inc (PSMT) Straddle

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

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

PriceSmart, Inc. owns and operates U.S. style membership shopping warehouse clubs in the United States, Central America, the Caribbean, and Colombia. Its warehouse clubs sell brand name and private label consumer products, essential goods, fresh produce, prepared foods, and fresh-baked goods, as well as provides services, such as optical, tire center, and other ancillary services. The company also operates Click & Go, an e-commerce platform for online ordering, curbside pickup, and delivery services. As of March 29, 2022, it operated 49 warehouse clubs in 12 countries and one U.S. territory. PriceSmart, Inc.

was incorporated in 1994 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.

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