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After five months of upward movement in the main indexes, the market has weakened in the last weeks. While the U.S. economy is still strong, the market movement was extreme to the upside, so it makes sense to take a breather or even correct.

As investors ourselves, we are currently favoring limited-risk strategies. We believe the potential for adverse surprise is higher than the market is pricing. We've written about these strategies in our blog, and you can read it here:

It's the end of March, and it's time for the Q1 2024 version!

We continuously improve our platform and listen to your requests in order to keep Samurai the best platform for options investors and help you keep your edge in the market.

For this version, we've made considerable improvements to the scanner in anticipation of our custom strategy scanner. We've improved the home page to be more 'card'- based and added breadcrumb-based navigation to help you quickly dive in and out of the results without losing context and information. Additionally, we've added more Excel templates and new data points, improved the platform, and crushed bugs.

In this version:

Read more on our bl​​og.

The ability to gauge the company valuation on your own is invaluable. Being able to do it quickly will allow you to add this to your investment workflow and also react quickly to earnings events.

Our Reverse Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) model templates help you do just that in minutes. With our templates, you get an initial valuation of a company in minutes, and from there, you can decide your next step.

Last month, we added a new template to allow you to calculate the company valuation using reverse DCF. This month, we've added two more templates to help you accomplish more:

As always, these are Excel templates, so feel free to download them and customize them to your needs.

The Reverse Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) model is a financial valuation method that involves working backward from a company's current stock price to estimate the implied future cash flows and growth rates expected by the market. Instead of projecting future cash flows and discounting them to present value, the reverse DCF model uses the current stock price and market assumptions to infer the implied expectations about a company's future financial performance.

The main benefit of this model is that it can be very easy and fast to use. This means you can get your own idea of a company's worth in a few minutes without relying on others or financial media.

We've created an Excel template and a blog post to help you automatically analyze stocks to save time and find potential mispricing in the stock.

Read the blog post to learn more about the template: Unlock Financial Insights in Minutes: Your Reverse DCF Excel Template.
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Download the template.

As the market gears up for another earnings season, it's time to sharpen our trading tools and navigate the twists and turns that lie ahead. Recently, we've added educational material to our blog to help you trade during earnings announcements. Whether you're a seasoned trader or just dipping your toes into the options pool, we hope to help you make informed decisions and enhance your returns.

The blog articles:

Our scanner has visual cues for upcoming earnings, and this help article describes the filters and trade examples you can use.

Stay tuned as more updates are coming soon 🚀🚀.

We have updated our infrastructure and UI kits to provide faster and better results for your options trading. This update will also allow for better mobile support and will allow us to support better future improvements and features that we have planned for you.

We are working hard on our Q1 version that will launch in March. Happy trading! 🙌

As 2023 is coming to an end, we want to take some time to reflect on what we've accomplished this year (and it was a lot 😉 ).

On the macro front, this year, we saw a bullish trend that increased the interest in the stock market, and once again, we saw bullish sentiment in comments, stories, risk-on assets (such as Bitcoin), and more. The main indexes rose about 20% and are again around the 2021 levels, but with different stocks leading the markets.

Looking back at 2023, we showed up daily to improve Samurai and help our clients succeed. As traders ourselves, we think that it's important to show up and improve constantly. We are happy to apply it to our trading and our product.

Here are the main features we've added this year:

We are happy with what we achieved this year and excited about what is coming in 2024. Read our blog post to learn more about our improvements and how they help you trade.

Happy December, everyone! We are already at the end of the year, and it is time to announce our Q4 version. We are continuing to develop our software based on your feedback, and we have even more things coming next year to improve the watchlists and a custom strategy scanner (more details on that will come in the future).

In this version, we've added more information for the scanner to help you quickly find what you are looking for. The data covers both stocks and options, and we also improved our scanner to allow you to control Iron Condores and other neutral strategies better.

Read more in our blog post.

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. 

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

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.