For people new to options
Pick a stock you know. Option Coach walks you through one example trade in plain English: what you'd enter, what you could earn, the most you could lose, and how it plays out if the market drops or rallies.
Invite-only beta. An education tool, not investment advice.
Illustrative example with hypothetical numbers. Not a recommendation.
Why Option Coach
Screeners show hundreds of numbers and assume you already know what delta and implied volatility mean. Option Coach shows one trade at a time and explains every part of it.
Answer three questions and get a single worked example with the strike, the expiry, the cash you'd receive and the worst case in dollars.
Press play and watch the trade through a calm week, a sharp drop or a rally, with the coach telling you what each moment means.
The option chain and order ticket are shown the way your broker displays them, with the exact cells and buttons highlighted.
How it works
Income on shares you already own, getting paid while you wait to buy a stock cheaper, or income with a fixed maximum loss.
Choose from 500+ US stocks and ETFs, then how far from today's price the strike should be. Farther means safer odds and a smaller premium.
See the odds, the worst case, a replay through different markets, a year of history and the exact order to place, all in plain English.
Options in 60 seconds
The right to buy 100 shares at the strike. If you sell a call, you may have to sell your shares at the strike.
The right to sell 100 shares at the strike. If you sell a put, you may have to buy shares at the strike.
Income strategies are on the seller side: you are paid up front for taking on an obligation that only matters if the price crosses your strike before expiry.
Each chart shows profit or loss at expiry (up) against the stock price at expiry (across). profit loss
Then, by expiry, one of three things happens:
The price never crosses your strike. You keep the whole premium, and the collateral is released.
The price crosses the strike. Through the clearing house, shares and cash change hands at the strike. You still keep the premium.
You “buy to close” the same option. You pay its current price; your result is the premium in minus the cost out.
Reads the range traders are pricing in from today's option prices.
Uses how much the stock has really moved lately, with room for rare big days.
Replays this stock's own daily moves from the past year, thousands of times.
Combines all three into the odds, the worst 1-in-20 case and the replay you see.
Earnings reports are built in. When a report could fall before expiry, the models add an overnight jump sized from that stock's biggest moves this year, as often as a report is likely. Big tech names can gap 5% to 10% or more after earnings.
Educational illustration, not investment advice. Options involve risk and are not suitable for every investor.
What you get
Watch the price move, the trade's value change and the coach's status update as each day passes. When a rule would close the trade, you see why.
Within 0.7% of your strike. No action yet: the rules decide, not nerves.
Like an ensemble weather forecast, Option Coach blends what option prices imply, how the stock has actually been moving, and a replay of its real history. Then it tells you plainly whether there's an edge, or not.
See the option chain with the cells to use marked SELL and BUY, plus filled-in tickets for opening the trade and closing it later. It works with any broker; Option Coach never places trades itself.
| Action | Qty | Strike | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sell to Open | 1 | 740 | Put |
| Buy to Open | 1 | 735 | Put |
Who it's for
Pricing
Free covers 10 popular names plus a weekly pick. Pro opens every ticker.
Questions
No. Option Coach is an education and analysis tool. It shows the same analysis to everyone who picks the same settings, and it doesn't know your finances or goals. It isn't registered as an adviser, and it never tells you what to buy or sell.
No. It never connects to your brokerage account. It shows you what a trade involves and what the order would look like, so you can decide for yourself and place it with your own broker if you choose.
500+ US stocks and ETFs, including the S&P 500 and the most-traded funds. During the beta, 10 popular names plus a weekly free pick are fully open, with the rest in Pro.
The beta uses delayed end-of-day prices and option volatility, refreshed regularly. Always check live quotes in your broker before trading.
No. Every number comes with a plain-English explanation, and a glossary covers terms like strike, premium, delta and assignment.
Yes. Option Coach is built in Toronto. It covers US-listed stocks and ETFs today, which most Canadian brokers can trade, and Canadian-listed options are on the roadmap.
The first 100 founding members lock in Pro at $9 a month for their first year once the full version launches. Join the waitlist and we'll email you when it opens. You can cancel any time before launch.