Trading a T straddle lets you take a pure volatility position on AT&T Inc without committing to a direction. AT&T 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 T straddle pricing in real time and find the moments when expected moves are mispriced.
A long straddle on T 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 AT&T 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 T straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.
AT&T Inc. provides telecommunications, media, and technology services worldwide. Its Communications segment offers wireless voice and data communications services; and sells handsets, wireless data cards, wireless computing devices, and carrying cases and hands-free devices through its own company-owned stores, agents, and third-party retail stores. It also provides data, voice, security, cloud solutions, outsourcing, and managed and professional services, as well as customer premises equipment for multinational corporations, small and mid-sized businesses, governmental, and wholesale customers.
In addition, this segment offers broadband fiber and legacy telephony voice communication services to residential customers. It markets its communications services and products under the AT&T, Cricket, AT&T PREPAID, and AT&T Fiber brand names. The company's Latin America segment provides wireless services in Mexico; and video services in Latin America. This segment markets its services and products under the AT&T and Unefon brand names. The company was formerly known as SBC Communications Inc. and changed its name to AT&T Inc. in 2005. AT&T Inc. was incorporated in 1983 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.
Earnings, product cycles, macro prints — any time volatility itself is the trade, the T straddle is the cleanest expression of that view. Our scanner prices every T 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 T straddle into a catalyst or short a T straddle to harvest decay, the options straddle setups that matter are all in one place.
