Quad/Graphics Inc (QUAD) Straddle

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

A long straddle on QUAD 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 Quad/Graphics 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 QUAD straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.

Quad/Graphics, Inc. provides marketing solutions worldwide. The company operates through United States Print and Related Services, and International segments. It offers printing services, such as retail inserts, publications, catalogs, special interest publications, journals, direct mail, directories, in-store marketing and promotion, packaging, newspapers, custom print products, and other commercial and specialty printed products; and paper procurement services. The company also provides marketing and other services, including consumer insights, audience targeting, personalization, media planning and placement, process optimization, campaign planning and creation, pre-media production, videography, photography, digital and print execution, and logistics, as well as manufactures ink.

It serves blue chip companies that operate in various industries, and serve businesses and consumers comprising retailers, publishers, and direct marketers. The company was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Sussex, Wisconsin.

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