The Best Options Report is released every morning that the options market is open. You can learn how to trade this report here and see the results of the trades on this page.

What is the Best Options Report?

The Best Options Report is a tool designed to help you identify profitable trade setups. Each morning, our software reviews the 400+ most popular stocks with weekly options being traded in the market.

We review each stock for:

• Historical volatility (realilzed vol over past 45 days) verses implied volatility (in the option prices)
• Efficiency (bid ask spread, volume, open interest)
• Direction (what the technical factors are telling us about direction)

We compile the results into bullish and bearish setups – a menu of potential trades – for you to review. Whether you are an experienced trader or just starting out, the Options Report provides you with a powerful tool to explore and identify potentially profitable trade setups based on your criteria.

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Summary Table

These trades are the best result from each of the following tables.

Most Bearish

These stocks and put options are the most directionaly bearish. Fade the recent bearish action by selling high premium puts or join the trend with puts with low “Put Pricing.”

Most Bullish

These stocks and call options are the most directionally bullish. Fade the recent bullish action by selling high premium calls or join the trend with calls with low “Call Pricing.”

Cheap Calls

These call options offer the lowest ratio of implied volatility (IV) relative to historical volatility (HV). These options are priced expecting the underlying to move up less than it has moved up in the past. Buy these calls.

Cheap Puts

These put options offer the lowest ratio of put implied volatility (IV) relative to historical volatility (HV). These options are priced expecting the underlying to move down less than it has moved down in the past. Buy these puts.

Expensive Puts

These put options offer the highest ratio of bearish premium paid (IV) relative to historical volatility (HV). These options are priced expecting the underlying to move down significantly more than it has moved down in the past. Sell these puts.

Expensive Calls

These call options offer the highest ratio of call implied volatility (IV) relative to historical volatility (HV). These options are priced expecting the underlying to move up significantly more than it has moved up in the past. Sell these calls.

Highest Premium

These options offer the highest ratio of implied volatility (IV) relative to historical volatility (HV). These options are priced to move more than they have moved in the past. Sell iron condors on these as they may be over priced.

Most Efficient

These stocks have the best liquidity. This means that they offer the least slippage, tightest spreads and the cheapest cost of a round trip trade. Best for short term trades.

Upcoming Earnings

These stocks have earnings approaching and their premiums are usually elevated as a result. These are high risk high reward option plays where you can buy (long options) or sell (short options) the expected move.

The Columns in the Report:

These columns represent the methodology used in the report. In short, we compare Historical Volatility with Implied Volatility to highlight pricing opportunities on popular optionable stocks. Here is a breakdown of each column.

• HV: This stands for Historical Volatility and looks at the logarithmic mean of daily returns on an annualized basis. In other words, how volatile has this underlying stock been in the past? This is in contrast to Implied Volatility which represents the prices option traders are willing to pay for the expected volatility in the future.
• Call Premium and Put Premium: The word “premium” represents the relationship between HV and IV. If a stock has an HV of 20 but an IV of 30, then its options carry a 1.5x premium on the implied forward-looking volatility relative to realized historical volatility.
• Direction: Ranges from -100 (bearish) to +100 (bullish) and accounts for RSI, price trend, moving averages, and put/call skew. A growing number of technical indicators are weighted and averaged to produce one figure to represent the bullish or bearish trend of the stock during the time period.
• E.R.: This represents the number of days until the next Earnings Release (E.R.). Use this value to find upcoming earnings trades, or to avoid them.
• Priced(+) and Priced(-): This represents the dollar change necessary in the underlying stock to break even by the expiration date.
• Stock/C/P: This column combines the underlying stock, call strike, and put strike that were used in the analysis represented in the table.
• Beta: Beta is the sensitivity of the underlying stock to the movements of SPY. A value of 2.3 means that the underlying tends to move (up or down) 2.3 times the magnitude that SPY moved on that same day. This is another measure of volatility.

How to Trade the Results of the Best Options Report:

• Cheap Calls: These call options offer the lowest ratio of implied volatility (IV) relative to historical volatility (HV). These options are priced expecting the underlying to move up less than it has moved up in the past. Buy these calls.
• Expensive Calls: These call options offer the highest ratio of call implied volatility (IV) relative to historical volatility (HV). These options are priced expecting the underlying to move up significantly more than it has moved up in the past. Sell these calls.
• Cheap Puts: These put options offer the lowest ratio of put implied volatility (IV) relative to historical volatility (HV). These options are priced expecting the underlying to move down less than it has moved down in the past. Buy these puts.
• Expensive Puts: These put options offer the highest ratio of bearish premium paid (IV) relative to historical volatility (HV). These options are priced expecting the underlying to move down significantly more than it has moved down in the past. Sell these puts.
• Most Bearish: These stocks and put options are the most directionaly bearish. Fade the recent bearish action by selling high premium puts or join the trend with puts with low “Put Pricing.”
• Most Bullish: These stocks and call options are the most directionally bullish. Fade the recent bullish action by selling high premium calls or join the trend with calls with low “Call Pricing.”
• Highest Premium: These options offer the highest ratio of implied volatility (IV) relative to historical volatility (HV). These options are priced to move more than they have moved in the past. Sell iron condors on these as they may be over priced.
• Upcoming Earnings: These stocks have earnings approaching and their premiums are usually elevated as a result. These are high risk high reward option plays where you can buy (long options) or sell (short options) the expected move.
• Most Efficient: These stocks have the best liquidity. This means that they offer the least slippage, tightest spreads and the cheapest cost of a round trip trade. Best for short term trades.

If you have questions on this report, please email [email protected] for more! If you need help, join the discussion on Discord where we can answer questions and support.

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