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Guides

What is Expected Value and 3 ways to use it

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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...

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Trades

Unusual Option trade on $DD

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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...

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Company News

New Feature: ATR Scanners

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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...

IV Rank vs RV
Research

Implied Volatility backtest pt 3: IV and RV

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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...

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Research

Trading Leap options - Part 1

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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...

2022 Review
Company News

Option Samurai 2022 Review

4 min read

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...

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