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Ideas Are Everywhere. Profits Come From Process.
OptionsPlay turns that process into five steps that live on one dashboard, each built to fix a common breakdown in how people trade.
Most traders don't lack ideas.
They lack a process.
Without a repeatable way to go from "this looks interesting" to a managed trade, the same five things tend to go wrong.
Too many names, no short list
Thousands of tickers and constant noise. You chase the loudest, or never start.
Too many ways to trade one idea
Shares, an option or a spread, each with different risk. Choosing by habit is choosing blind.
Risk is a guess
Size and exits get decided in the moment, if at all. One oversized loser undoes many good trades.
Emotion takes over once you're in
Fear and hope make the calls: winners cut early, losers held and hoped on.
Learning happens alone
Courses explain theory. Few show a process on live positions, week after week.
Small leaks add up
Missed trades, mismatched strategies, oversized losses. Each is fixable with a process.
Five steps. One dashboard.
Every day.
Each step answers one of the breakdowns above. Pick a step to see the problem it solves, how it works, and the tools behind it.
Start from a short list, not the whole market
Every day your dashboard hands you a short, ranked list instead of the whole market. Hundreds of names are narrowed to a handful worth your attention, so you begin each session with real candidates and a reason for each.
- Short lists, refreshed daily. Relative Strength, Undervalued / Overvalued, Daily Trade Ideas and Upcoming Earnings give you different ways in, each already narrowed for you.
- Know how early a move is. Relative Strength ranks bullish and bearish names by how early each is in its trend, so you can spot what is starting to move and not just what already ran.
- Liquidity and Strength at a glance. Liquidity shows how easy a name is to trade, and Strength shows how it is trending. Both sit beside each name, with IV Rank on the Quote Board to show whether options are priced high or low against their own history.
- A deeper read on demand. Open the Options360 Report on any name straight from your dashboard.
The result: from searching thousands of tickers to choosing from a few real candidates.
Next: Structure →
Turn an idea into a structured trade
The Strategy Builder takes your idea and lays out the different ways to trade it, side by side. You compare the options on the same page and pick the one that fits, instead of defaulting to the one you know.
- Strategies side by side. The Strategy Builder lays out structures for the same idea, such as shares, a single option or a spread, each explained in plain English.
- One score to compare them. The OptionsPlay Score rates each structure and highlights the strongest, so comparison takes seconds and not an afternoon.
- See the outcome first. The P&L Simulator shows profit or loss at any price, date and volatility, before any money is committed.
- Trade it or tweak it. Send a strategy to trade, or modify it, right from the card.
The result: a structure chosen on purpose, with the numbers in front of you.
Next: Size & protect →
Know your risk before you are in the trade
Before a trade is placed, the dashboard works out how much to put on and where you are out, based on your actual account. Risk becomes a number you chose in advance and not a feeling you have later.
- Set your portfolio value once. It lives in your Profile, so sizing is based on your account, not a guess.
- Size every position. The Risk and Investment Calculator sizes each trade to a fixed risk budget, defaulting new traders to a 2% rule that caps what any single trade can cost.
- Exit levels set up front. Stop-loss and take-profit levels are chosen at entry, not while you watch the price.
- From plan to portfolio. Export the trade ticket to your broker and add it to your tracked portfolio.
The result: you know what you are risking, and where you are out, before the trade starts.
Next: Manage →
Stay disciplined once you are in
Your open positions are tracked for you, and the plan you made at entry does the talking. Decisions follow the levels you set when you were thinking clearly, not the mood of the moment.
- Stop and target alerts. Know the moment a level is hit, without watching the price all day. Position alerts also point to hold, roll or close.
- Losers handled by rule. Levels set at entry mean the decision is already made when it matters.
- Winners given room to run. Add-to-winner tools and confirmation signals show when a position is still moving your way.
- See it done live. DailyPlay shows the same approach on live positions, in public.
The result: losses cut on plan, and winners left to do the work.
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Coaching that lives inside the platform
The process is demonstrated live on real positions every week, and it all sits on your dashboard. You are not just handed tools; you watch experienced traders use them, and learn to do the same.
- DailyPlay, every trading day. A signal with the reasoning behind it, shown on live positions.
- Market Outlook, Mondays. Our read on the week ahead, so you start the week with context.
- Growth Lab, Thursdays. Live and education-focused, with recordings to catch up.
- Weekly Equity Research, plus a guided walkthrough of your dashboard.
The result: the process, demonstrated week after week, whether or not you are logged in.
Watch it all come together ↓
Optimal trade setups ready for instant execution
You have seen the five steps. Now watch them work together on the real platform, from a short list of names to a trade you can act on.
The whole toolkit, in one membership
Every tool behind those five steps, plus the live coaching.
Ideas & research
- Daily Trade Ideas
- Relative Strength watchlists
- Undervalued / Overvalued lists
- Early Breakout signals
- Income & credit spread screeners
- Earnings calendar
- Options360 Report
- Weekly Macro & Equity Research
Strategy tools
- Strategy Builder
- OptionsPlay Score
- P&L Simulator
- Trading Range Simulator
- Quote Board: liquidity, strength, IV Rank
- Plain-English explanations
Risk & alerts
- Risk and Investment Calculator
- Stop-loss and take-profit levels
- Position alerts: hold, roll, close
- Add-to-winner tools
- Watchlist signals
- Tracked portfolio
- Broker trade ticket export
Coaching & community
- DailyPlay, every trading day
- Market Outlook, Mondays
- Growth Lab, Thursdays
- Webinar recordings
- Courses
- Community of serious traders
Platform
- Customizable dashboard
- Guided walkthrough
- iOS and Android app
- support@optionsplay.com
Guided by mentors who do this for a living
The same people who built the process teach it live, every week.
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Tony Zhang
A leader in the options industry, empowering thousands of students a year. A regular market guest on CNBC, and a driving force behind the OptionsPlay platform, built so everyone has the opportunity to succeed in trading.
Michael Khouw
Senior advisor to OptionsPlay for over 10 years, with 25+ years as a professional options trader on Wall Street. Co-author of The Options Edge, and on CNBC since 2009 as senior analyst on Options Action and Fast Money.
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