Trading a NHI straddle lets you take a pure volatility position on National Health Investors Inc without committing to a direction. National Health Investors 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 NHI straddle pricing in real time and find the moments when expected moves are mispriced.
A long straddle on NHI 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 National Health Investors 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 NHI straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.
Incorporated in 1991, National Health Investors, Inc. (NYSE: NHI) is a real estate investment trust specializing in sale-leaseback, joint-venture, mortgage and mezzanine financing of need-driven and discretionary senior housing and medical investments. NHI's portfolio consists of independent, assisted and memory care communities, entrance-fee retirement communities, skilled nursing facilities, medical office buildings and specialty hospitals.
Earnings, product cycles, macro prints — any time volatility itself is the trade, the NHI straddle is the cleanest expression of that view. Our scanner prices every NHI 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 NHI straddle into a catalyst or short a NHI straddle to harvest decay, the options straddle setups that matter are all in one place.
