Trading a VICR straddle lets you take a pure volatility position on Vicor Corp without committing to a direction. Vicor 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 VICR straddle pricing in real time and find the moments when expected moves are mispriced.
A long straddle on VICR 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 Vicor 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 VICR straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.
Vicor Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, and markets modular power components and power systems for converting electrical power in the United States, Europe, the Asia Pacific, and internationally. The company offers a range of brick-format DC-DC converters; complementary components; and input and output voltage, and output power products, as well as electrical and mechanical accessories. It also provides custom power systems solutions. The company serves independent manufacturers of electronic devices, original equipment manufacturers, and their contract manufacturers in the aerospace and aviation, defense electronics, industrial automation and equipment, instrumentation, test equipment, solid state lighting, telecommunications and networking infrastructure, and vehicles and transportation markets.
Vicor Corporation was incorporated in 1981 and is headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts.
Earnings, product cycles, macro prints — any time volatility itself is the trade, the VICR straddle is the cleanest expression of that view. Our scanner prices every VICR 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 VICR straddle into a catalyst or short a VICR straddle to harvest decay, the options straddle setups that matter are all in one place.
