Trading a SPMD straddle lets you take a pure volatility position on State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 400TM Mid Cap ETF without committing to a direction. State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 400TM Mid Cap ETF'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 SPMD straddle pricing in real time and find the moments when expected moves are mispriced.
A long straddle on SPMD 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 State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 400TM Mid Cap ETF 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 SPMD straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.
The State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 400 Mid Cap ETF seeks to provide investment results that, before fees and expenses, correspond generally to the total return performance of the S&P MidCap 400 Index (the "Index")A low-cost ETF that seeks to offer precise, comprehensive exposure to mid cap US equitiesThe Index is float-adjusted and market capitalization weightedOne of the low-cost core State Street SPDR Portfolio ETFs, a suite of portfolio building blocks designed to provide broad, diversified exposure to core asset classes
Earnings, product cycles, macro prints — any time volatility itself is the trade, the SPMD straddle is the cleanest expression of that view. Our scanner prices every SPMD 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 SPMD straddle into a catalyst or short a SPMD straddle to harvest decay, the options straddle setups that matter are all in one place.
