Trading a PYPL straddle lets you take a pure volatility position on PayPal Holdings Inc without committing to a direction. PayPal Holdings 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 PYPL straddle pricing in real time and find the moments when expected moves are mispriced.
A long straddle on PYPL 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 PayPal Holdings 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 PYPL straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.
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.
Earnings, product cycles, macro prints — any time volatility itself is the trade, the PYPL straddle is the cleanest expression of that view. Our scanner prices every PYPL 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 PYPL straddle into a catalyst or short a PYPL straddle to harvest decay, the options straddle setups that matter are all in one place.
