Trading a XSOE straddle lets you take a pure volatility position on WisdomTree Emerging Markets ex-State-Owned Enterprises Fund without committing to a direction. WisdomTree Emerging Markets ex-State-Owned Enterprises Fund'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 XSOE straddle pricing in real time and find the moments when expected moves are mispriced.
A long straddle on XSOE 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 WisdomTree Emerging Markets ex-State-Owned Enterprises Fund 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 XSOE straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.
Under normal circumstances, at least 80% of the fund's total assets will be invested in component securities of the index and investments that have economic characteristics that are substantially identical to the economic characteristics of such component securities. The index is a modified float-adjusted market cap weighted index that consists of common stocks in emerging markets, excluding common stocks of "state-owned enterprises." The fund is non-diversified.
Earnings, product cycles, macro prints — any time volatility itself is the trade, the XSOE straddle is the cleanest expression of that view. Our scanner prices every XSOE 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 XSOE straddle into a catalyst or short a XSOE straddle to harvest decay, the options straddle setups that matter are all in one place.
