Category: Tutorials
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Causes for stock price crash
A sudden crash in stock prices is very painful for investors and traders, and since we trade with options - Unexpected crush could be amplified and cause a lost of 100% of the money allocated to...
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Webinar: Finding your edge
** 2021 update: We no longer integrated with eSignal, but the workflow and edges described in the app are still available in our platform. You can sign up for a free 14 days trial here. And see the...
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How to use Pre-Defined Screens
One of our coolest features is the pre-defined screen. Every strategy has several pre-defined screens to help you start using the app as soon as possible.
Pre-Defined Screens
The pre-defined...
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The Edge of Implied Volatility Percentile
4 min read
Implied volatility is one of the most important concepts in options trading. This is the measure most market players use to check if an option is expensive or cheap. In this post, we will be...
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Trading Earning announcement with options
Earning announcements are probably the most important corporate action for a public company. Due to the uncertainty of the announcement, the expected (and realized) volatility during these times is...

Trading Implied Volatility - Part 2
4 min read
This is the second part of a four (very important) part post about how to better trade implied volatility. Most sources (educators, websites, etc.) give a lot of misinformation about trading...
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Trading Implied Volatility - Part 1 - Predicting stock movements
4 min read
Predicting stock movements is the holy grail of investors, and many studies, tests, and systems have been developed and are being developed to do so. Four professors from Columbia, Georgetown, and...

FAQ: The option scanners
6 min read
As part of this FAQ post we are going to expand on the different option scanners available on option samurai. You can read more about adding a new scanner on a post with that name.
First thing we...
FAQ: How to read the table header - Covered Call
Here is a quick explanation about the table headers and how to best use them.
Option Samurai table header
Let's start from the left:
Actions allow you to interact and activate advance feature...