Category: Research

The Edge in Dividends investing
Many of the trades we take here at Option Samurai involve using dividends (And also buybacks, but this will be covered in a future…
Trading Leap options – Part 1
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…
RSI Backtest: Predicting the Stock Movement Using RSI – Part 1.
Option Samurai’s option scanner is designed to help you find the best options trades in the market. To do that, we compile many data points…
Trading Options on Over-Extended Stocks – Webinar Recording 💻
During the Synergy Traders #39 event, we presented how you could profit from trading over-extended stocks with options. We showed example trades, backtests and…
Implied Volatility Backtest 2: Predicting RV Change
This is a multiple-article series. In part one, Implied Volatility backtest – Predicting IV Change, we discussed how the IV percentile predicts future IV…
Implied Volatility backtest – Predicting IV Change
[We have just added another article in the series, about the Real Volatility (or Historical Volatility) backtest. Check it at Implied Volatility Backtest 2:…
The Edge of Selling Puts
This is the third installment in our series into the edge of selling options. You can see the previous two parts here and here….
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…