Horizon Technology Finance Corp (HRZN) Straddle

Trading a HRZN straddle lets you take a pure volatility position on Horizon Technology Finance Corp without committing to a direction. Horizon Technology Finance 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 HRZN straddle pricing in real time and find the moments when expected moves are mispriced.

A long straddle on HRZN 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 Horizon Technology Finance 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 HRZN straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.

Horizon Technology Finance Corporation is a business development company specializing in lending and and investing in development-stage investments. It focuses on making secured debt and venture lending investments to venture capital backed companies in the technology, life science, healthcare information and services, and cleantech industries. It seeks to invest in companies in the United States.

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