Danaos Corp (DAC) Expected Move

Tracking the DAC expected move helps you see how far Danaos Corp's options market is pricing the stock to travel over a given period — whether that's the next day, week, or earnings cycle. Danaos Corp's expected move is derived directly from option premiums and gives you an objective range to plan trades, set strikes, and manage risk. Use our scanner to monitor the DAC expected move for this week's options, in real time.

The expected move is typically calculated from at-the-money straddle prices (or a blend of straddles and strangles) and represents roughly a one-standard-deviation range over the chosen timeframe. For DAC, comparing the implied expected move to actual realized moves over similar windows tells you whether the options market has historically overestimated or underestimated volatility. The DAC expected move for this week's options pricing is especially useful for short-dated traders, earnings players, and anyone selling premium who needs to know where the market thinks Danaos Corp is unlikely to go.

Danaos Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, owns and operates containerships in Australia, Asia, Europe, and the United States. The company offers seaborne transportation services, such as chartering its vessels to liner companies. As of February 28, 2022, it had a fleet of 71 containerships aggregating 436,589 twenty-foot equivalent units in capacity. The company was formerly known as Danaos Holdings Limited and changed its name to Danaos Corporation in October 2005. Danaos Corporation was founded in 1963 and is based in Piraeus, Greece.

Iron condors, weekly premium sales, directional swing trades — they all live or die by where the market thinks the stock won't go. Our scanner tracks the DAC expected move across every expiration, benchmarks it against realized moves, and shows you when implied ranges are out of line with history. The Danaos Corp expected move for this week's options is the fastest read on short-term risk, which gives you a quick way to interpret what the options market thinks about DAC.