Westwood Holdings Group Inc (WHG) Straddle

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

A long straddle on WHG 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 Westwood Holdings Group 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 WHG straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.

Westwood Holdings Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, manages investment assets and provides services for its clients. The company operates in two segments, Advisory and Trust. The Advisory segment provides investment advisory services to corporate retirement plans, public retirement plans, endowments, foundations, individuals, and the Westwood Funds; and investment sub-advisory services to mutual funds, pooled investment vehicles, and its Trust segment. The Trust segment offers trust and custodial services; and participates in common trust funds that it sponsors to institutions and high net worth individuals.

Westwood Holdings Group, Inc. was founded in 1983 and is based in Dallas, Texas.

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