Option Samurai Blog
Learn. Trade. Profit.
Scaling into your trades
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO SCALE INTO YOUR POSITIONS?
Imagine you are bullish on a stock and assume you have set aside $2000 capital to purchase 10 contracts of long calls. However, instead of deploying...

Changing option structure in predefined scans
One of the prominent features in SamurAI are the predefined screens. The screens (over 20 of them) allow you find trade ideas in one click in different market conditions. We’ve created the screens...

New Month New Features
Earlier this month we released some new features and we want to take a minute and describe them. Stay tuned as more things coming next month!
Analyst Recommendation
This filter aggregates Wall St....

Happy Labor day 2018
To all our users, followers and fellow Samurais - Happy labor day!
And remember not to wear white after Monday!

The Edge of Moving Average
This is the second part in the series about the edge of the market sentiment. The first part about relative strength edge was published a few weeks ago.
In this part I wish to describe a simple...

The edge of Mean Reversion Trades
Mean Reversion Trades
To be a profitable trader, you need to trade with an edge. What is a trading edge? In short, it is the opportunities or patterns that exist in the market that has a high...
![over-extended-Infographic[1]](/_next/image/?url=%2Fapi%2Fmedia%2Ffile%2Fover-extended-Infographic1.jpg&w=3840&q=90)
How to trade when a stock is over extended
As traders we are constantly on the look to understand the market's tendency and how to act on it. One way is by examining how stocks behave after they are oversold. We believe this is an essential...

The edge of relative strength - Risk on / Risk off
Traders that trade with the trend, increases their chances to be profitable in the long run. While it is impossible to completely predict the market, we can judge different patterns and sentiments...
![Risk-vs-Return-Tradeoff[1]](/_next/image/?url=%2Fapi%2Fmedia%2Ffile%2FRisk-vs-Return-Tradeoff1.jpg&w=3840&q=90)
Picking the perfect covered call strike
Covered call is one of the most popular options strategies. Last week we mentioned that option-sellers have an edge when trading, and we talked a little bit about the edges in covered calls - They...
![Tags[1]](/_next/image/?url=%2Fapi%2Fmedia%2Ffile%2FTags1.gif&w=3840&q=90)