How OptionsKing works

OptionsKing pulls the option chain for the tickers you follow, scores every candidate strike on a 0 to 100 confidence scale, and shows you only what clears a bar you set. The floor is 60 and cannot be lowered. The recommended setting is 75. When nothing clears it, the app tells you that instead of padding the list.

The gate is the product

Most screeners answer the question "what are the highest-yielding options right now". That question has an answer every single day, and on most days the answer is a list of trades you should not take. Yield ranks best when the risk is worst.

OptionsKing answers a narrower question: which of these clears a bar. Scores run 0 to 100. Nothing below 60 is ever surfaced, at any setting, on any screen. The Settings slider moves your personal bar anywhere from 60 to 100, so you can be stricter than the 75 default. There is no way to be looser.

Which means the app has an empty state, and shows it regularly. A screen that says nothing here clears your bar today is the single most useful thing this product does, and it is the reason it will never win a comparison based on how many ideas it produces.

Deterministic, and why that matters

The same inputs produce the same score every time. No sampling, no model that drifts between releases, no number that changes because a service was retrained overnight. If a setup scored 78 on Tuesday and 78 again on Friday, the inputs did not move.

The scoring itself is proprietary and stays that way. What is worth publishing is what it weighs in general terms, unranked and without weights: liquidity, volatility, and event risk in the expiry window. Every options educator names those three. The composition is the part that took the work.

What the score is not

It is not a prediction. A 90 does not mean the trade will work, and it does not mean the trade is more profitable than an 80. It means more of the checks the engine runs came back clean. A high-confidence trade can still be assigned, still lose money, and still be the right decision in hindsight.

It is also not personalized advice. The engine does not know your tax situation, your other positions, your income, or whether you can afford to own 100 shares of the thing it just suggested selling a put on. Those are yours.

Where the numbers come from

• Quotes come from a market-data provider through the OptionsKing backend, and they are delayed. The app labels them "Delayed (~15 min)" everywhere they appear. It never presents a delayed price as live, and it will not show you a cached price when a fresh one cannot be fetched. It shows an error instead.
• Greeks and probabilities are computed with a Black-Scholes implementation matched to the reference library to full double precision. The same math runs the free calculators on this site, so the two cannot disagree.
• Outcomes come from you. The app tracks the trades you tell it you took and reports what they actually earned, including the ones that went badly.

What it will never do

It does not place trades. It does not connect to, read, or link a brokerage account. It does not have a mode where it trades for you, and there is no plan for one. The app is an opinion you evaluate, and the decision and the outcome are yours. That is not a legal hedge, it is the design.

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