Diversified Healthcare Trust (DHC) Straddle

Trading a DHC straddle lets you take a pure volatility position on Diversified Healthcare Trust without committing to a direction. Diversified Healthcare Trust'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 DHC straddle pricing in real time and find the moments when expected moves are mispriced.

A long straddle on DHC 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 Diversified Healthcare Trust 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 DHC straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.

DHC is a real estate investment trust, or REIT, that owns medical office and life science properties, senior living communities and wellness centers throughout the United States. DHC is managed by the operating subsidiary of The RMR Group Inc., an alternative asset management company that is headquartered in Newton, MA.

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