Trading a SF straddle lets you take a pure volatility position on Stifel Financial Corp without committing to a direction. Stifel Financial Corp'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 SF straddle pricing in real time and find the moments when expected moves are mispriced.
A long straddle on SF 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 Stifel Financial Corp 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 SF straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.
Stifel Financial Corp., a financial services and bank holding company, provides retail and institutional wealth management, and investment banking services to individual investors, corporations, municipalities, and institutions in the United States, the United Kingdom, the rest of Europe, and Canada. It operates in three segments: Global Wealth Management, Institutional Group, and Other. The company provides private client services, including securities transaction and financial planning services; institutional equity and fixed income sales, trading and research, and municipal finance services; investment banking services, such as mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, and private placements; and retail and commercial banking services comprising personal and commercial lending programs, as well as deposit accounts.
It also participates in and manages underwritings for corporate and public finance; and offers financial advisory and securities brokerage services. The company was founded in 1890 and is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri.
Earnings, product cycles, macro prints — any time volatility itself is the trade, the SF straddle is the cleanest expression of that view. Our scanner prices every SF 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 SF straddle into a catalyst or short a SF straddle to harvest decay, the options straddle setups that matter are all in one place.
