Category: Tutorials

Tip: Use Scans as Part of Your Investment Process
This article will be a short technical how-to article to help you create scans for your investing process. We use it personally to quickly…
Lowering Cost Basis with Options (With a trade example)
In this post, I wish to talk about lowering the cost basis of a position. I will do that by showing a trade that…
Optimal Iron Condor Strategy and how to find it in Option Samurai
Today we will discuss one of the most popular strategies in options trading: iron condor. The Strategy became very popular due to the limited…
Multi-column sorting
[We have improved the usage of this feature based on your feedback. Here is the updated article: Here] We’ve just launched the Multi-column sorting feature…
Creating an optimum vertical spread
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…
Stock Score Analysis
When trading options, we often focus on option specific data points such as IV, time decay, volatility, the Greeks, etc. These are essential measures…
Difference between IV Rank & IV Percentile
In the OptionSamurai Scanner, we use IV Percentile to compare the IV of different stocks and call it “IV rank” as we think it…
Analyse your trade in the Trade tab
We are happy to announce that we have recently deployed another new feature – the Trade tab. In the Trade tab, you can see the…
See the Future of the Trade: The Scenario Engine
We are delighted to announce we are launching a unique scenario engine on our platform. The engine will allow you to see the profit…
Legging into your trade positions
INTRODUCTION Let us consider a put vertical spread structure. It is formed by simultaneously selling a put and buying a put below the strike…