2023-11-08
Blog
New educational blog posts in our blog
We've published three new blog posts that cover options selling strategies.
We are continuing our effort to offer more educational materials, and we've published three articles. 

The topics are:

Check those articles out - and if you have requests for more material you want us to cover - feel free to reach out!

2023-10-15
Blog
New articles about Implied Volatility in our blog
Implied volatility is one of the most important aspects of options trading. In addition to the backtests we ran on our indicators, we've written a series of articles designed for beginners in our blog that explains different aspects of IV.




You can read more about those in our blog posts:

And if you still need to read it - We recommend reading our backtesting IV article series, where we backtested the IV behavior. Link: Implied Volatility backtest – Predicting IV Change

Here is the help article about our IV suite
2023-10-09
New Feature
Additional Dividend Data Provider
We are happy to announce that we've integrated an additional data provider to incerease our data on future dividends. When we look at the optionable universe we see an increase of 25-50% in stocks that have data on future dividends. 


This will be very useful for our Dividend capture screens, wheel screens, and every screen that includes dividends stocks. 

The feature is live now. You can try our options screener for free.
2023-09-20
Blog
Selling Call Options In-The-Money: A Practical Guide for Intermediate Traders

We wrote a short guide about selling ITM call options in our blog. This is a risky strategy, but selling ITM actually reduces some of the risk over the long term as you collect more premium but have almost the same risk and nearly the same margin requirements.


This is just one of the tools in your toolbox, and we are trying to help you sharpen it :-)

Read more in our blog: Selling Call Options In-The-Money: A Practical Guide for Intermediate Traders.
2023-09-10
New Version
Option Samurai’s Q3 2023 Release – IV vs. HV. Analysis, Improved Spreads Scanner, and More
As the third quarter of the year comes to an end, we are happy to announce our Q3 2023 version of Options Samurai. As mentioned in the last update, we have continuously delivered new features and more value for our users for 4.5 years now 😊. We are proud of that, and the feedback we get from our users keeps us going (Thank you for the kind words).



In this version, we’ve updated many of our backend systems to allow us to scale, continue, and deliver even more features this and following years. We can already announce some improvements and new features we’ve delivered. This post will highlight the most important ones.

This version we’ve added:
  • Implied Volatility vs. Historical Volatility Analysis
  • Improved earnings logic
  • Intrinsic / Extrinsic values
  • Improved spreads scanner and butterflies’ scanners
  • Bug fixes and improvements

2023-08-26
Blog
Understanding the Iron Butterfly Option Strategy
A new guide in our blog - for the Iron Butterfly strategy. 

This article outlines how the Strategy works, including the short iron butterfly and long iron butterfly variations, provides tips for successful trading with it, and explores features offered by Options Samurai that can enhance trades using this strategy. We’ll also have the time to explore an iron butterfly example, giving you a practical application of the strategy.

Checkout the article in our blog: Understanding the Iron Butterfly Option Strategy

2023-08-13
New Feature
Updated Excel and Google Sheets versions
We've updated the Excel/Sheets plugins so they will work faster, more securely, and we've added more data (Inrensic/Extrinsic Values).

Soon, we will launch our Q3 Version. But this is live now.
2023-08-03
Blog
Options Trading Journal: Unlock Your Options Trading Potential
We just published a new guide in our blog about Options Trading Journal.

Many traders don't maintain a trading journal for their trades and push it for 'later' when they will be 'serious' or profitable. We believe that a trading journal is one of the best tools you can use to become a profitable trader.

A trading journal allows you to learn from data, fight biases and emotions, and thus learn and improve faster.

We wrote a complete guide about trading journals (you don't need a sophisticated software to get started), What they are, what they need to include, how you can use them, etc. And also included some information about our trading journal feature.

2023-06-09
Blog
The Wheel Options Strategy: Your Comprehensive Guide to Steady Income Generation
We are happy to publish our new guide: A comprehensive guide for the Wheel strategy.

The wheel strategy utilizes some market edges to provide a systematic approach to options trading.

We wrote this guide to help you improve your trading and learn how to use Samurai to execute these trades.

2023-05-27
New Feature
🚀 Exciting News: Faster Site, Better Experience!
We're thrilled to announce that we've made two key components of our site much faster:
  1. User data (saved scans, alerts, universes, etc.) 
  2. Trade log.

Your experience on our site is now smoother and quicker than ever!
We hope that the faster loading and feedback of the site will help you enjoy the app more and you can improve your performance.

We're continuing to improve the site - stay tuned as more updates are coming.