OptionStrat Blog

As you know, lately I have been writing about cryptocurrencies and how they have not been acting as advertised (to say the least).

The Wheel Strategy is a popular options trading strategy for generating consistent passive income.

Last weekend, a horse aptly named Rich Strike won the Kentucky Derby. Believe it or not, he was an 80-1 long shot.

This week, the tone of the markets took on a decidedly apocalyptic tone. Inflation, war, interest rates, Covid, stagflation…the list goes on and on. I

Apparently, a federal judge in Florida has decided for all of us that the pandemic is officially over.

To begin, I won’t comment or recap what’s been going on between Twitter and Elon Musk – it’s been well-covered in the press...

According to almost everything you read, crude oil is very, very volatile. The evidence is everywhere: prices at the gas pump are super high, the war in...

As I write this, the War in Ukraine continues to rage on with no end in sight.

It's always interesting when markets refuse to follow conventional wisdom.

Nickel, agricultural sanctions, bitcoin, and a gold-mining meme stock.

Imagine that one day you're trading away in a pretty quiet stock and all of sudden it goes up 66% one day and then doubles the next over the course of 18 minutes.

You can’t get much more uncertain than how the Russian/Ukraine situation will ultimately turn out.

I fully believe that financial history doesn't really repeat itself, it just kind of rhymes with what we've seen before. In other words, reminiscent, but not a replay, a sequel if you will.

As we have written over the last several weeks, the Russia/Ukraine situation will produce market effects that are not seen too often.

Today we are launching a series of improvements to our options profit calculator product known as the strategy builder.

After a week or so off, the Russian/Ukraine faceoff is back on the front page and above the fold.

Dare I say it? Volatility actually decreased last week! Of course, some stocks looked like they were knocking on the...

For traders new and old, last week was a wild ride with some whiplash-inducing intraday swings.

The bull market party has been going on since roughly 2009 (and who would have predicted that at the very bottom of the...

We've added support for some popular indices and their extended trading hours.

As an addition to the chance of profit feature, the stock's probability distribution is now graphed.

We've revamped the saved trade system to add some highly requested features.

OptionStrat now has historical charts for viewing past performance of any option strategy as well as options flow.

OptionStrat Flow is the first to provide Enhanced Options Flow consisting of complex strategies.

Live data and additional advanced features are now available for subscribers.

A tutorial on how to use OptionStrat to calculate profit and loss for various option strategies.

You can now add an additional expiration date and change the expiration of individual legs.

Download OptionStrat on your iOS or Android device.

The new options optimizer allows you to easily search though thousands of trades to find the strategies with the maximum return or chance of profit.

OptionStrat is now available for beta testing. Learn more here!

What is implied volatility (IV) and how does it affect my trades?

Learn how to input your existing trades into OptionStrat.