PayPal Holdings Inc (PYPL) Expected Move

Tracking the PYPL expected move helps you see how far PayPal Holdings Inc's options market is pricing the stock to travel over a given period — whether that's the next day, week, or earnings cycle. PayPal Holdings Inc's expected move is derived directly from option premiums and gives you an objective range to plan trades, set strikes, and manage risk. Use our scanner to monitor the PYPL expected move for this week's options, in real time.

The expected move is typically calculated from at-the-money straddle prices (or a blend of straddles and strangles) and represents roughly a one-standard-deviation range over the chosen timeframe. For PYPL, comparing the implied expected move to actual realized moves over similar windows tells you whether the options market has historically overestimated or underestimated volatility. The PYPL expected move for this week's options pricing is especially useful for short-dated traders, earnings players, and anyone selling premium who needs to know where the market thinks PayPal Holdings Inc is unlikely to go.

PayPal Holdings, Inc. operates a technology platform that enables digital payments on behalf of merchants and consumers worldwide. It provides payment solutions under the PayPal, PayPal Credit, Braintree, Venmo, Xoom, Zettle, Hyperwallet, Honey, and Paidy names. The company's payments platform allows consumers to send and receive payments in approximately 200 markets and in approximately 100 currencies, withdraw funds to their bank accounts in 56 currencies, and hold balances in their PayPal accounts in 25 currencies. PayPal Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Iron condors, weekly premium sales, directional swing trades — they all live or die by where the market thinks the stock won't go. Our scanner tracks the PYPL expected move across every expiration, benchmarks it against realized moves, and shows you when implied ranges are out of line with history. The PayPal Holdings Inc expected move for this week's options is the fastest read on short-term risk, which gives you a quick way to interpret what the options market thinks about PYPL.