Cash-secured puts and short strangles

Scored candidates every weekday. You decide what to trade.

PutWatch scans several hundred liquid names every weekday. It scores what clears the gates and publishes a top ten for puts and a top ten for strangles. Add the ones you trade. It tells you when they hit your exit.

$49 a month. Seven days free. Research and education, not investment advice.

How it works

01

Scan

Every weekday at 10:30 ET. Several hundred liquid names, checked against hard gates for volume, open interest, spread and upcoming earnings.

02

Score

What survives gets scored on six factors: IV rank, IV against realized volatility, return on capital, liquidity, trend safety and event risk.

03

Publish

A top ten for puts and a top ten for strangles, balanced against the sectors you already hold and the size your account can carry.

04

Watch

Positions you add get marked daily. You get told the moment one hits your profit target, your stop, or your close-by date.

Why trust the list?

The scoring is published

Every factor, weight and threshold is written down. IV rank is worth 20 points, liquidity 15, event cleanliness 10. You can check a score by hand.

Scores mean the same thing every day

Factors normalize on fixed scales, not on how the rest of the day looked. A 78 in March means what a 78 in October means. It is never "best of a bad day."

Losses are shown as plainly as wins

Everything published is tracked as a paper position, whatever happens to it. Win rate, average return, days held, and the largest single loss.

Your rules, not ours

Set the expiry and delta you want and the exits you use. The defaults are 45 days out, close at 50% of credit, cut at 200%, out by 21 days.

What PutWatch does not do

It places no trades. It connects to no brokerage. It never asks for your broker login and never sees your balances, buying power, positions or orders. You place every order yourself, at your own broker.

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