Hercules Capital Inc (HTGC) Straddle

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

A long straddle on HTGC 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 Hercules Capital 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 HTGC straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.

Hercules Capital, Inc. is a business development company. The firm specializing in providing venture debt, debt, senior secured loans, and growth capital to privately held venture capital-backed companies at all stages of development from startups, to expansion stage including select publicly listed companies and select special opportunity lower middle market companies that require additional capital to fund acquisitions, recapitalizations and refinancing and established-stage companies. The firm provides growth capital financing solutions for capital extension; management buy-out and corporate spin-out financing solutions; company, asset specific, or intellectual property acquisition financing; convertible, subordinated and/or mezzanine loans; domestic and international corporate expansion; vendor financing; revenue acceleration by sales and marketing development, and manufacturing expansion.

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