Yield and Growth
Income from the market.
Growth over time.
We sell options for steady income and own great companies for long-term growth — on futures and equities — and we publish our daily trade screens below. Fresh setups from five strategies, every trading day, in plain English.
Membership is open
Every idea. Every tool. One membership.
Free shows one trade idea per strategy each day. Pro shows every idea across all five strategies the moment it publishes — plus the full research cards on the Universe page, all ten tools, and a monthly autopsy of your own trades. Platinum adds the engine watching your live book.
Pro is $79/month (or $828/year) after a 14-day free trial (card required; cancel before day 14 and you're never charged), and Platinum is a $79/month add-on to Pro. Cancel anytime — you keep access until the period ends. See the Refund & Cancellation Policy.
The engine
Run on rules, not hunches.
Every strategy on this site runs on our proprietary rule engine, built in-house. It decides what qualifies as an idea, when to enter, when to harvest a winner or cut a loser, and when to sit out entirely. We publish what it governs, never the exact lines it draws — those stay private. Every idea you see here clears the same bar.
Trade ideas
Only setups that clear the engine's bar become ideas. On days nothing does, you'll see that in the feed.
Trade management
Every idea card carries its management plan: when to harvest a winner, when to cut a loser, and when time is up — set by the rules before the idea is published.
Gated out
When conditions don't fit — thin pay, the wrong volatility, a market under real pressure — the strategy sits out. No forced trades.
Week ahead — major risk events
Week of
Scheduled releases that can move the whole market. This is a calendar, not a trade idea — it shows when volatility tends to arrive, nothing more.
Times are Central. Release dates occasionally shift — the issuing agency's calendar is the final word.
Daily trade ideas
Five strategies, published by 10:00 AM CT and updated through the session. Every idea shows exactly what the trade is — what you collect, what you risk, and what has to happen for it to work. No black boxes, no hype.
Membership is open. Free accounts see one idea per strategy each day. Pro members see every idea in full, plus the research cards and all ten tools. Start your 14-day free trial — Pro is $79/month once the trial ends ($828/year on the yearly plan), and cancelling before day 14 means you're never charged.
Trade ideas are published by 10:00 AM CT and stay live through the session — existing ideas may be updated, and new ideas added, every 30 minutes as market conditions change. Each card shows when it was last updated.
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Screens publish each trading day by 10:00 AM CT and update through the session. Some days a strategy simply has nothing worth showing — we publish that too. Ideas are informational only — see disclaimer below.
7-day history
What the screens published each day — scores are from that day, not live ratings. Weekends and market holidays are skipped — only trading days appear.
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Track record
Every idea we publish is tracked from its entry price to its exit, win or lose. This is the record so far.
As of Nov 2, 2026 · updated daily
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Member Tools
Ten calculators built for premium sellers and growth hunters — part of Pro membership, and explained in plain English.
Put Visualizer
See exactly what selling a put pays you — profit and loss at expiry, your breakeven, what assignment really costs you, and a rough chance of profit.
What's This Strike Worth?
Comparing strikes? Type in the premiums from your broker screen and we'll rank every strike by what each dollar at risk actually earns you.
Covered Call Calculator
Own the shares, sell the call: see your premium income, what you make if your shares get called away, what you keep if they don't, and your breakeven.
Put Credit Spread Visualizer
Sell a put, buy a cheaper put: see your max profit, your capped max loss, breakeven, return on risk, and a rough chance of max profit.
Covered Strangle Visualizer
Own 100 shares, sell a put below and a call above: see your combined premium, both outcomes at expiry, and what assignment really means.
LEAPS Visualizer
Buy a long-dated call: see your breakeven, how far the stock must climb, and how much of your premium is time value melting away.
Short Strangle Visualizer
Sell a put and a call around the market — stocks, ETFs, or futures. See your total credit, both breakevens, and the uncapped side of the trade.
Ratio Spread Visualizer
Buy one put, sell two cheaper puts: see where the sweet spot is, both breakevens, and what the downside really costs you.
Put Diagonal Visualizer
Buy a longer-dated put, sell a shorter-dated cheaper put: see your profit at the short expiry and what the roll is really worth.
Double Calendar Visualizer
Sell near-dated spreads, buy the same strikes further out: see the profit tent, what pinning the price pays, and the most you can lose.
Learn Hub
A plain-English primer on what we do here. No jargon, no hype — how it works, the concepts behind the screens, and the risks, explained the way we'd explain them to a friend.
Learn library
Thirty-six in-depth guides, from what an option actually is to the 60/40 futures tax treatment. Prefer reading straight through? Start here.
How it worksThe process behind every idea on this page.
Yield and Growth is built around one idea: every option trade has two sides — someone hoping, and someone getting paid. We take the getting-paid side. We sell options on markets we understand, collect the premium up front, and manage the risk with rules decided in advance. The same process runs every trading day — published by 10:00 AM Central and updated through the session — and the setups it surfaces are published above in plain English.
Scan the universe
We start with a broad universe — liquid stocks, ETFs, major market indexes, and futures markets across equity indices, energy, currencies, and rates. Liquidity is non-negotiable: we only trade where real buyers and sellers meet on both sides, so the price on the screen is a price you could actually trade.
Price every candidate
Every option's price is the market's guess about the future — how far the stock might move, and how soon. We sell only when the premium is generous for the risk taken; thin pay gets cut immediately. And time works for the seller: each passing day shaves a little value off the options we've sold. That steady melt — time decay — is the paycheck.
Keep the best, publish honestly
Most candidates don't make it. The survivors are ranked into one list, strongest first, and every idea shows exactly what the trade is — no black box. Ideas that are good but miss the cut, and days when nothing passes at all, stay on the public record. A screen that always has ideas is a screen with no standards.
Manage what we hold
Getting in is half the trade. Winners are harvested at half the premium collected — we'd rather bank a gain than squeeze it. Losers are cut at twice the premium collected, a level fixed before entry, and every position gets its time exit at entry: 21 days to expiration for ideas entered around 45 days out, 14 days for ideas entered around 30 days out. Every idea card carries its management plan, so you see the exit before you ever consider the entry.
Two halves of one barbell
Futures premium income
Short strangles across equity indices, energy, currencies, and rates. Strikes are always placed outside the market's expected move — time decay does the rest.
Equity income overlay
Cash-secured puts to acquire shares at a discount, covered calls against shares we own, and the wheel that links the two — on stocks and ETFs. Every idea on this page comes from that same screening.
The micro put ladder
One small short put a week on micro futures — built for small accounts, entered around 45 days out, harvested at half the premium, and never rolled. It runs on paper while it proves itself, and every published rung carries its platform label, so you can see exactly where it could be traded.
How to use the trade ideasFilters, scores, and score breakdowns — the controls above the ideas.
The screens section is one ranked list of the day's trade ideas, published each trading day by 10:00 AM Central, updated through the session, and sorted strongest first. The filter box above the list narrows it down — here's what each control does.
Strategy
Pick one of the five strategies — sell puts, covered calls, futures strangles, the wheel, or the micro put ladder — or leave it on All Strategies to see every idea in one ranked list. In the combined view each card is tagged with its strategy.
Strength
Strong ideas scored 85 or above; Solid ideas scored 70–84. (Futures strangles use their own scale: Strong 80+, Solid 50–79.) Strength is a relative read — how attractive the idea looked versus everything else screened that day.
Min score
Drag the floor up or down. Only ideas scoring at least this much stay on the board. The default is 70 — everything published has already cleared that bar.
Fundamental · Growth · Technical
Minimum scores for the three pillars, shown as the tappable strip under each company name. Futures and index ideas carry no pillars, so these sliders never hide them.
Reset
One tap puts every filter back to the default view.
The score breakdown
Tap the Strong or Solid badge on any card and the score opens up: every ingredient graded in plain words — Strong, Fair, or Weak — strongest contributors first, penalties (if any) last. The words don't add up to the badge number; they're a readout of what drove it. The exact recipe stays ours.
What it means: the score is a 0–100 read on how attractive the setup looked across everything we measure — the quality of the company, the richness of the premium, how far the stock can move before the trade is threatened, the trend and volatility backdrop, liquidity, and more. A high score means the idea stood out on many fronts at once, not just one.
What it doesn't mean: the score is a ranking tool, not a forecast. An 85 doesn't promise a win and a 72 doesn't promise a loss — it says the 85 was the more attractive setup on the day it was screened. Tapping the three pillars under the company name shows each pillar's grade and the word-graded readouts behind it.
StrategiesThe five plays behind the screens — tap one to read it in full.
How to read an idea cardEvery card on this page speaks the same language. Here's the translation.
Expiry
The date the trade ends, with the days remaining. The clock is the seller's friend, so this number does real work.
Strike
The price level the trade is built around. On a short put, it's the price you'd pay for the shares if assigned.
Collect
The cash you receive up front for selling the option. It's yours to keep — unless the trade moves against you.
Breakeven
The line between profit and loss. A $95 put sold for $2 breaks even at $93 — the stock can fall that far and you still don't lose.
Budget
What the trade ties up: margin for puts and strangles. For covered calls it is the value of 100 shares you already own — we never buy shares just to write a call.
Cushion
How far the stock can fall before reaching your strike. "8% below today's price" means an 8% drop just gets you to the strike.
Max risk
The worst case on a spread — the width between the strikes minus the credit collected. Known before you enter, not after.
Income
The premium expressed as an annualized rate, so a 30-day idea and a 60-day idea can be compared apples to apples.
Thesis
One sentence on why this idea made the board — the plain-English reason, not a model output.
Management plan
The exit before the entry: when we'd take profit, when we'd walk away, and what to watch in between.
The core idea: why sell?
An option is a contract with two sides. The buyer pays cash today for the chance of a payoff tomorrow. The seller collects that cash today and takes the other side of the bet.
We prefer the seller's seat for one simple reason: time. Every option melts a little with each passing day — traders call it time decay. The buyer is racing that melt; the seller is collecting it. Not every sale wins — when markets make violent moves, sellers pay out — but across hundreds of trades, being the one paid up front, with the clock on your side, is a durable edge.
That's the whole business without the mystique: find liquid markets, sell options when the pay is generous for the risk, and manage every position with rules decided before entry.
The vocabulary
Premium
The option's price. Buyers pay it, sellers collect it. Everything on this site starts here.
Implied volatility
The market's forecast of future movement, baked into the option's price. When it's high, options are expensive — and sellers get paid more.
Time decay
The daily melt in an option's value as expiry approaches. The buyer's headwind and the seller's tailwind.
Delta
Roughly how much the option's price moves when the stock moves $1. It also doubles as the market's rough odds that the option finishes in the money.
Expected move
The market's rough forecast of how far the price could swing by expiry, in either direction. Our futures strangles place their short strikes outside of it.
In the money
An option that would pay out if expiry were today — a put whose strike sits above the stock price, or a call whose strike sits below it.
Bid-ask spread
The gap between what buyers will pay and sellers will accept. Tight means liquid and cheap to trade; wide means the opposite.
Assignment
When a put you sold leaves you owning 100 shares at the strike. On our put screen that isn't failure — it's the plan.
Spread
Selling one option and buying another further out. It caps the profit and the loss alike — defined risk from the start.
Liquidity
How easily you can trade without moving the price. We only fish in liquid water: tight bid-ask spreads and real volume.
Risk disciplineReturns come from the process. The process starts with what we refuse to risk.
- Position cap. Never more than 10 open positions at once — no exceptions for FOMO.
- Defined exits. Take profit at 50% of premium collected; cut losers at twice the premium collected; time exits set at entry — 21 days to expiration for 45-day ideas, 14 days for 30-day ideas. Winners are harvested, losers are cut — nothing is held on hope.
- Size follows risk. Large buying-power trades are single contracts. Volatile sleeves are entered at half size. We scale by adding names, not by adding size.
- Never average down. A position under pressure is rolled or closed — never doubled.
- Cash is a position. Most capital sits in cash and short-term Treasuries. Premium selling works because the portfolio can absorb the trades that don't.
What can go wrongHonest version, because the pay exists for a reason.
Selling puts
The stock falls hard and you're assigned shares above the market price. The premium softens the landing — it doesn't prevent it.
Covered calls
The stock rockets past your strike and your gains stop there. The risk isn't losing money; it's watching money you almost made fly away.
Strangles
A big move in either direction is the enemy. Both sides were sold on the assumption that the market would stay roughly put.
Wheel
Assignment is the plan, not the failure — but the shares can keep falling after you're assigned, and the mapped follow-through may pay less than hoped. The cycle only works if you'd genuinely own the stock at the put strike.
None of this is a reason to trade options — it's the price of admission for understanding them. If the risks above feel uncomfortable, that's useful information, not a character flaw.
QuestionsStraight answers, no fine print.
Is this financial advice?
No. Everything here is informational — a window into our own screening process. Trade ideas are not recommendations, and nothing on this site is an offer to buy or sell anything.
What is a short strangle?
Selling a put and a call on the same market and expiry. You collect premium on both sides and profit as time passes, as long as the market stays between your two strikes. Risk is highest if the market makes a large move in either direction.
How often do the screens update?
Every trading day. The screens publish by 10:00 AM Central and the ideas update through the session; futures strangles refresh alongside the equity screens.
Why are some tabs empty?
Because some days nothing passes. A screen that always has ideas is a screen with no standards — we'd rather show an honest empty tab than a forced trade.
What do "Strong" and "Solid" mean?
A qualitative read on how attractive an idea looks relative to everything else we screened that day. Strong ideas are the standouts; Solid ideas are good but not exceptional. Neither is a guarantee of profit.
Can I copy these trades?
You can see exactly what each trade is — strikes, expiry, premium, and capital required are all on the card. But options and futures carry substantial risk of loss, including losses exceeding your initial investment. Understand the trade, size it for your own account, and talk to a licensed professional before you trade.
How much does it cost, and how does the trial work?
Free is free forever: one idea per strategy per day, and one archived idea a day. Pro is $79/month ($828/year on the yearly plan), starting with a 14-day free trial — a card is required to start the trial, and unless you cancel before day 14 it converts to a paid subscription. Pro unlocks every trade idea, the full research cards, and all ten tools. Platinum adds the live-book engine for $79/month on top of Pro. Full details are on the Plans page.
How do I cancel?
Anytime, in about a minute: sign in, open your account page, and choose Manage billing — the billing portal cancels in a couple of clicks, or email us and we'll do it for you. You keep access until the end of the period you've paid for, and you're never charged again after cancelling.
What if it isn't for me — can I get a refund?
That's what the free trial is for. Monthly plans start with a 14-day free trial — a card is required, and if you cancel before it ends you're never charged. Once a paid period begins, payments aren't refunded — cancel anytime and you keep access until the period ends. The full policy is the Refund & Cancellation Policy.
What do Pro and Platinum actually include?
Pro unlocks every trade idea across all five strategies (Free shows one per strategy), the full archive with outcomes, early access each morning, and analytics on your own trading — a monthly autopsy of your uploaded trades, an execution-quality report, a position calculator, a stress planner, a backtest sandbox, and a year-end Section 1256 tax summary computed from your data. Platinum adds a live dashboard of your connected book — Greeks, distance to strikes, expiration calendar, and alerts you configure yourself.
Where does your data come from?
The screens run every trading morning on market data from established market-data providers — option chains, prices, and volatility for the stocks, ETFs, indexes, and futures we screen. Prices shown in the tools are delayed (about 15 minutes). Every idea is stamped with the day it was generated, and every outcome in the track record is recorded from the prices noted when the idea was published and when it closed.
How is the win rate calculated?
Win rate is winning closed ideas divided by all closed ideas in the track record — every strategy counted the same way, the Wheel included. An idea counts as a win when it closes profitable under the management rules published with it (winners are harvested at half the premium collected; losers are cut at twice it, with time exits set at entry). Nothing is removed from the record, win or lose — as of the latest update that's 95 wins out of 134 closed ideas, a 70.9% win rate. Remember that premium selling wins often by design and loses larger when it loses; the win rate is only half the story, and the total P&L is right next to it.
Do you ever connect to my broker?
Not for Pro — Pro never touches your broker, and your trade autopsy works on a CSV you export and upload yourself. Platinum offers an optional connected lane that is read-only by design: it can display measurements about your positions, and it can never place, change, or cancel a trade. You connect it yourself and can disconnect it anytime. We never trade anyone's account, under any tier.
What happens to my account and data?
Your password is stored only as a salted hash, two-factor sign-in is free, and anything you upload or journal stays yours — we never sell personal information or share your trading data. Payments are handled by Stripe, so your card number never touches our servers. The full details are in the Privacy Policy, and you can ask us to delete your account and data anytime by email.
Contact
Questions about the screens, the process, or working with us — or follow along wherever you watch.