Where earnings dates come from and why the source matters, how to read an implied move whether you are buying or selling premium, and how the catalysts view surfaces dated events, analyst actions and material news inside a multi-month holding window.
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The single most common way a well-constructed options trade goes wrong is an event nobody checked for. A print, a decision, a date that sits inside the window you are holding through. These two tabs exist so that never happens by accident.
Earnings dates here come from SEC filings rather than a third-party estimate feed. When a company announces its date, that announcement is a filing, and this reads the filing. You can open the underlying document from the inspector and check it yourself. Dates that are genuinely not yet announced are marked estimated rather than being presented as fact, which matters when you are deciding whether to hold through one.
Next to each date is the implied move: how far the options market is pricing the stock to travel on the print. Two ways to use it. If you are selling premium, it tells you how far out your strikes need to sit, and this platform widens them to one and three-quarter times the implied move rather than something tighter, because roughly one earnings move in five exceeded the narrower figure. If you are buying a move, it tells you what you are paying for, and the bar you have to clear is not whether the stock moves, it is whether it moves more than this number.
For trading the volatility around a print rather than the direction, there is an at-the-money calendar and double calendar builder here, which takes advantage of the near expiry being bid up relative to the one behind it.
Catalysts widens the view to three, six or twelve months, and it is built to pair with thesis. Dated upcoming events marked confirmed or estimated, analyst actions from the last forty-five days, and material news from the last thirty, each with a citation you can open. Before you commit to a multi-month position, this is the tab that tells you what you are agreeing to sit through.
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