Option Samurai Blog

Options players are considered a sophisticated group of market participants. Every day, millions of different options are traded on thousands of stocks. The nominal value of those options exceeds...

Option Samurai has always been committed to providing traders the best tools to succeed in the market. As we enter the fourth year of ongoing development, we are thrilled to introduce the Q2 2023...

In the realm of trading strategies, Expected Value (EV) is a statistical measure that seeks to predict the potential profitability of a particular strategy, given certain market conditions. By...

Update: We've written a step-by-step guide on how to trade unusual options activity. Check it out after you've read this post.

On Jan 7th, I noted that a trader had traded an unusually large...

We are very happy to announce that we have added an ATR scanner (Average True Range) to the app. Our Options scanner seamlessly integrates with our present scanners and allows you to scan past...

In the past two parts, we saw that IV and RV are both mean-reverting. We also saw that we could use the edge generated from this mean-reverting behavior in our trading when we measure them using...

Options have inherited strengths compared with vanilla stock positions, and it's important to play to those strengths and try to minimize exposure to the weaknesses. This is the first part of a...

As 2022 ends, we can reflect on what we've accomplished this past year and share our plans for the future. This year's macro-environment was hard, as we saw headwinds in stocks and rotation from...