Shutterstock Inc (SSTK) Straddle

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

A long straddle on SSTK 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 Shutterstock 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 SSTK straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.

Shutterstock, Inc., a technology company, provides quality content, and creative workflow solutions in North America, Europe, and internationally. It offers image services consisting of photographs, vectors, and illustrations, which is used in visual communications, such as websites, digital and print marketing materials, corporate communications, books, publications, and others; footage services, including video clips, filmed by industry experts and cinema grade video effects, and HD and 4K formats that are integrated into Websites, social media, marketing campaigns, and cinematic productions; and music services comprising music tracks and sound effects, which are used to complement images and footage.

The company provides its services under the Shutterstock, Bigstock, Offset, TurboSquid,PremiumBeat brand names, as well as Application programming interface to enhance workflow and project management needs, and search capabilities. It serves corporate professionals and organizations, media and broadcast companies, and small and medium-sized businesses, and individual creators. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

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