Category: Tutorials

Update: This article describes what vertical spreads are, considerations on how to build optimal spreads, data points to take into considerations, how to find your comfort zone, and more. Feel free...

When trading options, we often focus on option specific data points such as IV, time decay, volatility, the Greeks, etc. These are essential measures that are unique to the options realm. However,...

In the OptionSamurai Scanner, we use IV Percentile to compare the IV of different stocks and call it “IV rank” as we think it is more intuitive to understand. We know that other market players...

We are happy to announce that we have recently deployed another new feature - the Trade tab. In the Trade tab, you can see the Profit and Loss (P/L) of the strategy in different strike prices, and...

We are delighted to announce we are launching a unique scenario engine on our platform. The engine will allow you to see the profit and loss of the trade, assuming a shift in underlying price by...

As part of our premium plan, we send our users a weekly sector report. This report analyzes all sectors of the market from a bird's-eye view. It measures the current distance of each sector from...

INTRODUCTION

Let us consider a put vertical spread structure. It is formed by simultaneously selling a put and buying a put below the strike price of the put. The same structure can be created...

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...

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...