As we close out 2025 and look ahead to a new year of opportunities, we hope your trading journey this year has been both productive and rewarding. With the holidays approaching 🎄, we've been putting the finishing touches on the platform to deliver a smoother experience and more powerful tools.
Before we step into 2026 with even bigger updates, here's what we included in this final release of the year:
Quality of life improvements across the screener, trade log, and for Mac users
Improved tutorial across the website
New Data Points - Put/Call Ratio and Earnings Yield Ratio
Ability to screen for strategies with a delta above 1 or below -1
New predefined scan for a risk-defined risk reversal
New research on the statistical significance of the Santa Rally, plus a Colab notebook
Quality of life improvements across the screener, trade log, and for Mac users
We give you more control over your scans with collapsible lists and the ability to organize them. We also improved the flow in the Tradelog and screener to make it easier to review past trades, track performance, and navigate between entries. We also improved visual bugs for Mac users. Small improvements add up, and this update makes the tool more pleasant and efficient to use.
Improved tutorial across the website
Click on the Icon to start the Tour
We improved the existing virtual tour on the Screener page and added new guided tours to several other features, including:
All Scans
Analyzer
Trade Log
These tours help beginners get up to speed faster and allow experienced traders to discover capabilities they may not have used before.
New Data Points - Put/Call Ratio and Earnings Yield Ratio
We've added two new data points to our screener and to the Excel/Sheets integration. The data points are the Put/Call Ratio and Earnings Yield ratio, which will allow you to filter tickers by those ratios and integrate them with all our other features and data points.
Delta Above 1 or Below -1 in Custom Strategy Screener
Some advanced strategies require looking beyond traditional delta ranges. Previously, the screener limited delta inputs between -1 and 1, but we now allow scanning for strategies whose combined legs produce effective delta values above 1 or below -1.
This removes a source of friction for power users and opens the door to more sophisticated setups.
New Predefined Scan: Risk-Defined Risk Reversal
We added a new predefined scan that screens for a two-spread variation of the classic risk reversal.
While a standard risk reversal offers unlimited upside or downside, this version caps potential losses in exchange for a portion of the profit, offering a more risk-controlled way to express directional views.
It's a practical scan to explore if you want directional exposure with managed risk.
New Research: Santa Rally Statistical Study
To close out the year, we published new research examining the statistical significance of the Santa Rally - the tendency for markets to rise during the last week of December and the first two trading days of January.
In the article, we:
analyze decades of data
test whether the effect is statistically meaningful
break down performance by ticker and sector
And to help you explore the effect yourself, we included a Google Colab notebook where you can input any ticker and instantly test its historical Santa Rally performance.
All these updates are already available in your account. Log in to Option Samurai and start exploring the improvements, scans, and research insights we delivered this quarter.
As always, we welcome your feedback - it helps us decide what to build next.
As we wrap up 2025, we’re also running our Christmas promotion. If you want to secure a great deal on our annual plans and step into 2026 with stronger tools and better insights, visit our pricing page and choose the plan that fits your trading goals.
Leav Graves is the founder and CEO of Option Samurai and a licensed investment professional with over 19 years of trading experience, including working professionally through the 2008 financial crisis.
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