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Before you dig into any of these, you need to learn how to read the trade tickets generated by the scanners.

Strategies Overview

The following strategies represent systematic approaches to identifying trading opportunities based on specific market inefficiencies and risk premia. Each scanner is designed to find defined-risk trades that align with its core rationale.

• Volatility Edge Opportunities

  Finds trades that profit from imbalances between the market's fear (Implied Volatility) and reality (Historical Volatility) combined with persistence analysis.

• Risk Premia Pairs

  Identifies dislocations between correlated assets and generates market-neutral trades to take advantage of their statistical relationship returning to normal; cointegration plus in-depth historical backtesting.

• Earnings Volatility Crush

  Profits from the predictable collapse of option prices ("volatility crush") following earnings by using either Butterfly or Calendar spreads.

• Skew Flies

  Capitalizes on unusually expensive downside protection with low-risk/high return entries.

• STRAT-based Directional Spreads

  High-probability credit spreads sold against an identified directional bias.

• Synthetic Bull Call Spreads

  Synthetic positions that use carry and dividends to finance a directional bull call spread. Zero loss/minimum PnL, 100% stock protection, plus a chance of a much higher return. A bond replacement for the bad times, with an additional profit opportunity.

• Synthetic Flies

  A variation of the above that swaps spread returns for a narrower profit zone but higher "floor" PnLs and higher returns if price lands inside the profit zone.

• The Hockey-Stick Monitor

  A detector for key reversals/opportunities for long entries in a set of high-quality stocks. These change fast, so alerts are sent to subscribers via a custom messaging/popup system.