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Traditional options discipline.
Your rules, applied to every position.
One dashboard.

Optionscanner scores every ticker in your universe, watches every position you carry against exit rules you adopt, and shows you which rule fired and the number that met it, before you open the chain.

Sign up with your email or Google and you are in. The first 60 days of the full desk are free: we would rather you judge it in your own account than take our word for it.

Direct Brokerage OAuth · You approve every real order · Questions? Check the FAQ
Trade plan chart with the expected-move cone drawn against the profit zone of a credit spread
One ticker, start to finish: the range the market is pricing, the conviction drivers, the structure the engine names, the credit from the live chain, the broker preview, the paper log, and the rule that watches the position afterwards.
AUTO TRADING

Your rules. Its discipline.

The built-in trading agent runs the playbook a disciplined options desk would, using parameters you set. It proposes defined-risk trades with its reasoning in plain English, and it never has more autonomy than you have explicitly granted. Real money always waits for your click; full automation exists only in practice accounts.

Auto trading control row with the shadow, semi-auto and full-auto modes, the environment chips and the kill control
Three modes, walked in order. Every rule the agent applies is one you set and adopted by name. A live order always waits for your click.
WHERE THE AI STOPS

AI explains. Rules decide.

AI in options tools mostly does three things well: explains numbers in plain English, summarizes news and filings, and offers a second opinion on a setup. The decisions that matter, which candidates pass, which strikes, when to exit, are still rules and arithmetic in every tool worth using, and the way to judge a product is to ask which of its numbers the AI is allowed to change.

In Optionscanner the answer is none.

Read: AI options tools, what they actually do and do not →
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New to options?
Start in paper mode with sensible defaults. Every proposed trade arrives as an approval card that explains the setup, the credit, and the exact maximum loss before you tap approve. Nothing is ever placed without your say-so. You learn the discipline by watching it work.
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Seasoned executor?
Every parameter is a dial you own: delta band, credit and width floors, daily risk budget, earnings blackouts, and how much, if anything, the agent may submit without asking. Hands-off execution requires a typed authorization, and a full decision journal records why every entry and exit happened.
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Either way, the balancer keeps you honest
Whatever you choose, it watches the whole book, not just the trade in front of you: beta-weighted delta against SPY, directional risk capped against theta income, and bias pairing that pulls a tilted book back toward neutral. Individual trades can be opinions. The portfolio stays disciplined.
THE DIFFERENTIATOR

Bring your own market data.

Your broker already provides real-time options data. Connect your account and quotes, chains, and Greeks come from your own feed. We never resell data or mark it up. A small set of reference series does not come from your broker: official index closes republished by the Federal Reserve, earnings dates from SEC filings, and values we compute ourselves. Every source is listed on Data Sources.

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One secure connection
Link the brokerage account you already have. Supported brokerages are on the Integrations page, and more are on the roadmap.
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No data bill
We never resell market data. Your broker's feed, your terms.
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Every tool included
An AI-assisted options trading platform: a morning scanner that ranks the S&P 500, Nasdaq, and DOW, a live position monitor, trade plans, earnings intelligence, a grounded AI assistant, and the auto trading agent described above. One connection unlocks all of it.
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Scales without the overhead
No per-seat data fees means this can open up to anyone with a brokerage account.
PRICING

One plan. Everything included.

Try the full desk free for 60 days. No feature tiers, no AI add-on charges, no data markup.

$99 per month FIRST 60 DAYS FREE
Why 60 days? One full options cycle runs 45 to 50 days from entry to exit. We would rather you judge it in your own account than take our word for it.
Cancel anytime. Monitoring and exits on your open positions are never locked, even if your subscription lapses.
Billing terms, cancellation and the full FAQ are on the pricing page.
✓ Morning scanner across the S&P 500, Nasdaq, and DOW
✓ Conviction scoring with every driver shown
✓ Trade plans with strikes, probabilities, and breakevens
✓ Live position monitoring against exit rules you adopt
✓ Auto trading agent with approval cards and a kill switch
✓ Earnings intelligence and event blackouts
✓ Journal with auto-classification and pattern digests
✓ AI coach, second opinions, and catalyst research included
Your 60 days start when you complete checkout.
AI is part of the plan
The coach, second opinions, and catalyst research run on keys we manage. You never bring an AI key or watch a token meter to use the desk.
One optional add-on: the voice avatar
The talking avatar renders through Anam, a third-party service, using your own Anam API key. Anam's most basic plan, currently $12.99 a month, is enough. Everything else in the desk works without it.
Your data, your brokerage
Live trading uses your own brokerage account. Real-time options data may require a market-data subscription with your brokerage, billed by them, not us. The auto trading agent needs that real-time data; a free brokerage account runs everything else on quotes delayed 15 minutes.
CAPABILITIES

Everything you need to check before the bell, in one desk.

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AI Conviction Scoring
A single calibrated score per ticker, blending directional bias, news sentiment, and options-flow positioning into one number, with every driver shown.
Live Position Monitor
Every open position pulled live from your connected brokers and checked against exit rules you adopt and can edit. Each position shows the rule that fired and the arithmetic behind it. No more scrolling the chain by hand.
Auto Tech Chart Analysis
Every candle scanned for flags, triangles, double tops and bottoms, and head-and-shoulders the moment a pattern completes, scored and ready to act on.
Trade Plan Builder
Turn any signal, pattern, or conviction score into strikes, expiry, POP, and a breakeven cone, before you place a single order.
Trade Journal & P&L
Every trade auto-classified by strategy, with live P&L and effectiveness broken down by source, grade, and ticker.
AI Research Assistant
Ask about your account in plain English, like "what's my riskiest position this week?", and get an answer grounded in your real data.
ML Pattern Engine
A model trains on your own closed trades, learning which setups actually worked for you, and shows its read beside every conviction score as a second opinion.
SELF-LEARNING
HOW IT WORKS

Three steps from login to trade-ready.

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Link your brokerage account
A one-time sign-in at your brokerage, or API keys you create there. Positions, balances, and options chains sync in seconds. Read-only by default. Nothing is ever placed without your explicit approval.
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The engine scores your universe
Conviction, IV rank, sentiment, and GEX run across your watchlist and open positions the moment the market moves.
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Read clear, ranked signals
Every position is checked against your rules, with the reason in plain English. Every new idea comes with POP and worst-case credit already worked out.
WATCH

The whole desk, in the order a trading day uses it.

The trade plan with the expected-move cone drawn against the profit zone
The briefing, research on one ticker, live positions and what if, the wheel, the journal, the auto trading agent and every rule it applies, the analyze tab, and the coach. Chapters on YouTube.
The Optionscanner wordmark over a green bloom
Every name, every night, the same questions. Analytics that show their work. Paper first. No live order without your click.
AND MORE

The rest of the toolkit.

INSIDE YOUR ASSISTANT

Now inside Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor.

Add the free Optionscanner MCP server to the assistant you already use. It prices any options trade with up to eight legs, runs what-if scenarios on price, time and volatility, and reads the Learn library, and every answer links back to the page it came from. No account, no key, and no access to your positions.

YOU ASK

"Price a 30-day iron condor on a $100 stock at 30 percent IV."

Max profit and loss, breakevens, chance of profit, expected move, and a link that opens the trade in the calculator.

YOU ASK

"If it drops to $92 next week and volatility rises 5 points, what is it worth?"

Profit or loss on that date and at expiration, and what one more day, one more volatility point and a $1 move do.

YOU ASK

"Explain IV rank versus IV percentile."

The Learn article, summarised, with its link. Every glossary term and calculator page is one question away.

Set it up in two minutes Every tool, with inputs and examples
SECURITY

Your account. Your trades. Your control.

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Direct Brokerage OAuth
We connect through your brokerage's own login/api flow. Your brokerage credentials never touch our servers.
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You control every real order
Nothing touches a real account without your explicit approval. A sandbox agent can paper-trade the rules for research; with real money, every order is reviewed and approved by you, on every broker.
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Not financial advice
Signals and scores come from rule-based and statistical analysis of broker data you bring. You're responsible for your own trades.
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Hardened infrastructure
Now serving from behind a Global Application Load Balancer with Cloud Armor: edge rate limiting, hidden origin. Every user brings their own keys, every account is isolated, and signups are approval-gated.
FAQ

How it thinks, in plain English.

The short version: deterministic rules decide, AI explains.

Is my brokerage account data stored on your servers?
Some of it, and the Privacy Policy lists exactly what. We store the access token your brokerage issues, encrypted, so the app can read your account; revoke it at any time from the app or at your broker and we delete the stored token. We keep the records the app creates for you: your paper-trading journal, real trades you place through the app or import into the journal, watchlists, the rule sets and settings you adopt, and the agent's decision log. Positions and balances are read live from your broker and shown, and activity logs expire after 90 days. We never receive or store your brokerage login, Social Security number, banking details, or card number. Ask us to delete your account and we remove your records.
What does Optionscanner actually do?
It is a full options desk in one dashboard. A morning scanner ranks your universe by signal strength and IV rank. A conviction engine scores every ticker with the drivers shown. A trade plan builder turns any signal into strikes, expiry, probability of profit, and a breakeven cone. A live monitor checks every open position against exit rules you adopt and names the rule that fired. A journal auto-classifies every trade and tracks what actually works for you. And an AI assistant sits on top of all of it to explain anything on screen in plain English.
Which brokers do you support?
Several brokerages are supported today, with more planned; the current list is on the Integrations page. Each supplies market data for your own account under your own entitlements: real-time option data with a brokerage real-time options plan, quotes delayed 15 minutes on a free account; the Integrations page says which is which. Some also take orders, and some are data only. You can start with any one of them; connecting more unlocks the full experience.
Will the agent trade without me?
Not with real money, ever. The default mode proposes trades and waits for your approval. Fully automatic modes run only in paper and sandbox accounts; there, entries under a dollar limit you set can submit without a click once you type an authorization, and the balancer's caps and your daily risk budget still apply. With a live account, every order waits for your approval on every broker, plus a production confirmation. A kill switch stops all new agent orders at once.
I don't have a brokerage account. Can I still join?
Yes. A free paper trading account at a supported brokerage is enough to start: the scanner, research, trade plans and the journal work on paper from day one, on quotes delayed 15 minutes with a free account. The auto trading agent needs real-time option data, so it switches on once your brokerage supplies it; the Integrations page lists which plans do. Live trading needs a funded brokerage account with options approval. Skill level is not a requirement: the tool is built to assist you whether you are placing your first spread or your thousandth.
Who makes the trading decisions, the AI or the rules?
The rules. Every signal, entry filter, and risk cap comes from a deterministic rules engine built on long-standing options industry practice: defined-risk structures only, 30 to 45 days to expiry, short strikes inside a disciplined delta band, IV rank floors so premium is only sold when it is rich, liquidity minimums on open interest and bid-ask width, credit-to-width floors, and position sizing computed from worst-case loss. The same inputs always produce the same outputs. The AI cannot override, loosen, or talk its way past a single one of them.
So where does the AI come in?
In two places, both deliberately bounded. Inside the engine it is secondary guidance: an AI perspective that reviews what the rules already scored, adds market context, and never changes the math. Where it truly shines is the Help & AI section: a research assistant with more than twenty live tools that reads your actual positions, explains every measure and factor in the app, and answers account-specific questions like "what is my riskiest position this week" or "why was that spread rejected."
Can it manage the whole portfolio, not just single trades?
The auto trading agent now manages the book, not just the trade. Every position is beta-weighted against SPY, and three deterministic gates keep the portfolio balanced: directional exposure must stay proportional to daily theta income, is hard-capped as a fraction of capital, and when the book tilts too far, the agent will only accept trades that pull it back toward equilibrium. Every rejected candidate is logged with its exact reason, and a built-in AI assistant explains the aggregate picture in plain English.
Do I need my own AI API keys?
No. The AI features, the coach, second opinions, and catalyst research, run on keys the platform manages and are included in the subscription. The one exception is the optional voice avatar, which renders through Anam, a third-party service, using your own Anam API key; Anam's most basic plan, currently $12.99 a month, is enough. If you prefer to run the other AI features on your own Gemini or Anthropic keys you still can, from Settings, and then that spend is yours.
How do I know an AI answer is real and not made up?
Grounding is enforced, not promised. Every number the assistant states must come from a live tool call against your account or market data inside that same conversation, and it cites the tool it used inline. The server independently checks each reply against the tools that actually ran. If the assistant cannot ground an answer, it says "I need to run the tools for that" instead of guessing.
What does explainability mean in practice?
Ask why your conviction score is an 87 and you get the real subscores that built it. Ask why the engine rejected a trade idea and you get the exact filter that failed and the number it failed by, read from the record the engine wrote at decision time. Nothing is reconstructed after the fact and no rationale is invented to sound plausible. Every measure, factor, and account-specific decision in the app can be traced to its logged reasons.
Can it place trades for me?
Not with real money without you. A research agent can paper-trade the rules discipline in a sandbox so you can watch the process work risk-free. Anything touching a real account requires your explicit review and approval on every single order. The AI can analyze, propose, and queue an idea for your review. Only you can execute.
Whose market data is this?
Yours, for quotes, chains, and Greeks. You link your brokerage account with a one-time sign-in at the brokerage or, where the brokerage offers them, with API keys you create there, and the platform reads your broker's real-time feed. Your brokerage password never touches our servers, stored tokens and keys are encrypted and can be revoked at your broker at any time, nothing is resold, and you never pay twice for data you already have. A small set of reference series comes from public sources instead: official index closes from the Federal Reserve's data service, earnings dates from SEC filings, and values we compute ourselves, all listed on the Data Sources page.
What happens if my broker feed or OAuth token breaks?
Brokers expire access on their own schedules, and the app is built to make that painless. Where a brokerage requires a periodic re-authentication, the in-app flow takes about 30 seconds, and the app notifies you as the token approaches expiration. Other sign-in tokens are refreshed for you, and API keys are long-lived, so there is nothing to renew unless you rotate or revoke them from your broker's dashboard.
What does Optionscanner cost?
Optionscanner has one plan: $99 a month, with the first 60 days free. Everything is included, with no feature tiers and no separate AI charge. The trial is 60 days so a new user can carry one full 45 to 50 day options cycle in their own account, from entry to exit, before paying anything. Billing terms, cancellation and the full FAQ are on the pricing page.
Can I backtest strategies like on other options platforms?
No, by design. Backtests validate a recipe against history, and history is where overfitting hides. Optionscanner measures forward instead: the desk runs the full discipline on paper with live quotes and realistic fill modeling, and the platform publishes its own honest bookkeeping, calibration of its scores against actual outcomes, slippage between modeled and real fills, and exit-reason attribution. You judge the desk by watching it work under today's market, not a curve fit to yesterday's. Educational tool; not investment advice; past or simulated performance does not predict future results.
Is this financial advice?
No. Optionscanner is an analysis tool operated by Avenix Solutions LLC, not a registered investment adviser and not a broker-dealer. Signals and scores come from rule-based and statistical analysis of market data and your own account information. The rules that judge your positions are ones you adopt and can edit, the agent's settings are adopted the same way, and the app runs them and shows the arithmetic. No order reaches a live account without your click. Every trade is your decision and your responsibility.
FROM THE LEARN LIBRARY

The methodology is published, not promised.

Plain-English explainers of every measure the platform computes, and one page per engine component with every threshold quoted from the code. No login needed.

VOLATILITY
What is IV rank, and when does it mislead?

Why the same number reads rich after a volatility spike while the sellable premium is already thin, and which measure to trust when they disagree.
STRATEGY
The six checks a credit spread passes before it exists

Volatility, strike placement, liquidity, events, compensation, sizing: the step-by-step evaluation the rules engine runs on every candidate.
REFERENCE
The options glossary: one page per term

From delta bands to IV crush, forty short definitions with the practical context attached, each linking into the deeper articles.
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