VanEck Mortgage REIT Income ETF (MORT) Straddle

Trading a MORT straddle lets you take a pure volatility position on VanEck Mortgage REIT Income ETF without committing to a direction. VanEck Mortgage REIT Income ETF'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 MORT straddle pricing in real time and find the moments when expected moves are mispriced.

A long straddle on MORT 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 VanEck Mortgage REIT Income ETF 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 MORT straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.

The VanEck Mortgage REIT Income ETF (MORT) seeks to replicate as closely as possible, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of the MVIS US Mortgage REITs Index (MVMORTTG), which is intended to track the overall performance of U.S. mortgage real estate investment trusts.

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