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Many traders watch 52-week highs and lows closely. Stocks breaking to new highs often signal strength, while those hitting lows may indicate weakness. But do these patterns actually offer an edge?

In our latest blog post, we backtested a strategy using options to capitalize on these breakouts and breakdowns. We analyzed how stocks behaved after reaching these key levels and provided a backtest file (free of charge) so you can explore the results yourself. Plus, our predefined scans make it easy to find potential trade opportunities a​​nd apply this strategy to your trading.

Read more in our article: Use a Backtest to Build a 52-Week High or Low Options Trading Strategy [Free Backtest File]

Buying LEAP options can give you benefits over buying the stocks. This can help with diversification, leverage and risk management. The long time horizon of the options also reduce the main risk of the options of time decay.

In our blog post, we break down the pros and cons of buying options vs. investing in stocks so you can make a smarter trading decision. We also included a backtest to help you see how those strategies have performed in the past.

Read more on​ ​our blog: Gain a Market Edge with Leap Options: Long-Term Strategies and Stock Comparisons.

We’ve updated the strategies filters system to make it more powerful and consistent. Filters are now unified across all strategies, and we’ve added new options, including Gamma, to give you greater control over your results.

These changes are designed to help you get more accurate results and make the platform easier to use. They are also needed improvements before we release our Custom scanner.

The new version is already deployed.

As we wrap up 2024 and look ahead to the new year, we hope you've had a prosperous trading year! The holiday spirit is here with Christmas around the corner 🎄, but we're still hard at work creating tools to empower your trading journey.

We have more surprises and features next year, including our unique custom strategy scanner, so look for those announcements in the future. 

Read more in ​our blog​.

We're thrilled to announce that Dark Mode is coming to Option Samurai! 🌚 This has been one of our most requested features, and we're excited to roll it out for early access during Black Friday!

Upgrade or purchase now to be among the first to experience our sleek new Dark Mode, perfect for long trading sessions. Dark Mode is easy on the eyes, blends seamlessly with other trading platforms, and looks fantastic on mobile, too.

You can find it under Settings > Appearance and switch between light and dark themes anytime.

We’re excited to introduce our new self-service section, making it easier than ever to tailor your trading plan! Now, you can independently upgrade or downgrade your premium plan, moving between Beginner and Advanced, and switching from monthly to annual cycles whenever it suits you. Find the perfect plan that matches your trading needs—on your own terms!

Check it out here.

It's the end of September, and we are approaching the end of the year. Before we know it, it will be Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas 🎅

The markets have had a good year so far, with ~ a 20% rise in the main indexes. But whether the markets are up or down, we are developing more tools to help you be more successful, and it's time to announce our Q3 version!

In this version:

Read more in our blog.

Sometimes, it's good to trade Iron condors. This strategy has limited risk and allows you to profit if the asset doesn't move too much. This is an excellent natural strategy where time is in your favor.

Our sophisticated Iron Condor scanner is a powerful tool that empowers you to discover the most promising iron condor trades in the market. With the recent addition of the backtest file, you can now take control of your trading decisions by evaluating the past performance of specific assets before entering a trade.

The blog post has a complete guide with the backtest file you can use, as well as instructions and the idea behind this edge so you can integrate it into your trading.

Read more and use the backtest in our blog.

After an earning event, stocks can experience a sudden price change depending on how the market interprets the company’s performance. This can be an opportunity for traders to capitalize on this volatility using options trading strategies.

The main ways to trade these events can be with the bet that the stock will not return to the pre-event price (momentum) or assuming that the stock will return to the pre-event price, and this is an overreaction (mean-revision).

We ran a backtest to see how best to play these events, and we've included a backtest file to help you see the latest stats for any ticker you like to help you make decisions going forward.

You can read more about it in our blog post and see the file there: Trading Earnings Events with Options – A Backtested Strategy.

ATR (Average True Range) is a popular technical indicator for measuring volatility. It is a powerful tool for measuring volatility in a standardized way across the entire market, and scans based on it are very popular on our platform.

Our backtest tool is a game-changer. It allows you to test how results from our scan behaved in the past, giving you a glimpse of what could be. By integrating this into your workflow, you can gain a sharper edge in your trading, paving the way for more successful trades.

Read more in our blog post about how to use it to find trades that will move (and then you can buy calls or puts) or trades that might show lower volatility (and you can sell options, like iron condors).

The blog post: Run Your Own ATR Backtests to Increase Your Likelihood of Profitable Options Trading