Trading a VCEL straddle lets you take a pure volatility position on Vericel Corp without committing to a direction. Vericel 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 VCEL straddle pricing in real time and find the moments when expected moves are mispriced.
A long straddle on VCEL 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 Vericel 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 VCEL straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.
Vericel Corporation, a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company, engages in the research, development, manufacture, and distribution of cellular therapies for sports medicine and severe burn care markets in the United States. The company markets autologous cell therapy products comprising MACI, an autologous cellularized scaffold product for the repair of symptomatic, and single or multiple full-thickness cartilage defects of the knee; and Epicel, a permanent skin replacement humanitarian use device for the treatment of adult and pediatric patients with deep-dermal or full-thickness burns. Its preapproval stage product is NexoBrid, a registration-stage biological orphan product for eschar removal in adults with deep partial-thickness and/or full-thickness thermal burns.
The company was formerly known as Aastrom Biosciences, Inc. Vericel Corporation was incorporated in 1989 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Earnings, product cycles, macro prints — any time volatility itself is the trade, the VCEL straddle is the cleanest expression of that view. Our scanner prices every VCEL 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 VCEL straddle into a catalyst or short a VCEL straddle to harvest decay, the options straddle setups that matter are all in one place.
