Options Dispatch and Card Detail

The day's options write-up, the straddles and strangles that pass the screen, and the full card for each one.

dispatch cardsScreened symbols cards Lag 1+ session 2026-08-22 Open in a dashboard
Live data: options-dispatch in a dashboardReal data from 2026-08-22
Live data: card-detail in a dashboardReal data from 2026-10-31

What it answers

Two widgets show the options that the daily run screens for selling.

  • Options Dispatch shows the Options segment of Daily Dispatch and the straddles and strangles that pass the screen. Each card or row shows the structure, its days to expiry, its premium and its fair price.
  • Card Detail shows one card in full: the quotes, the model price, the sell prices (FILL), the close prices (CLOSE) and the breakevens.

Every figure on a card assumes that the structure is sold and held unhedged. The site places no orders and has no connection to a broker.

How to read it

  1. 1The write-up is the Options segment of the Daily Dispatch, shown as its own paragraphs.
  2. 2The view chips switch the cards below between Curated and All screened. This example shows All screened.
  3. 3All screened groups rows by symbol, one table per symbol, nearest expiry first.
  4. 4z(30d) is the VRP z-score. Values of zero or above use one colour; values below zero use another.
  5. 5A symbol with more than four rows hides the rest behind +N more. Click it to show them.
  6. 6Card Detail displays one structure's card in full, line by line.

All screened rows

An All screened row shows Expiry, Struct, DTE, VRP, z(30d), Fair and the status.

The pctile on a curated card and in Card Detail is the IV percentile.

Status

The status is the card status: 🟢 live, ⚠️ borderline or 🔴 dead.

  • Dead: the z-score is below +0.10, or the VRP points are 0 or below.
  • Borderline: the z-score is exactly +0.10, or a quality check fails.
  • Live: the z-score is above +0.10, the VRP points are above 0, and every quality check passes. A live status is not a forecast.

Curated and All screened never show a dead card. A borderline curated card ends with a line that lists the failed checks, or z at floor when no check failed. Options Dispatch omits a card or row whose status is unknown.

Curated

The Curated view lists only cards marked curated. A card is curated when it passes two gates and the screen:

  • the class gate: the symbol is in the configured list of index and rates ETFs;
  • the earnings gate: no earnings report falls inside the 14-day hold;
  • the screen: a straddle, 28 to 60 days to expiry, live or borderline.

The hold is 14 calendar days from the first session after the trade date, or to expiry if sooner. Curated groups cards by symbol, then by expiry. Curated does not score or reorder the cards. The header line is shown below, followed by the class tickers when they are loaded:

Curated by gate: index and rates ETFs, straddles 28 to 60 days out, no earnings print inside the 14-day hold. No score, no order.

All screened

All screened lists every live or borderline straddle and strangle at 28 days or more, on any symbol. When a stock fails the earnings check, the row shows earnings ~2026-09-18 beside the status, using the next earnings date. The tilde marks an estimate accurate to the week. earnings ? means the stock has no estimate for the trade date. ETF rows have no earnings chip.

Card Detail

Card Detail lists, from top to bottom:

A straddle shows one at-the-money strike, ATM K. A strangle shows the put and call strikes nearest 25 delta, 25Δ K. Each spread and OI line shows ✅ when the check passes and ❌ when it fails. A spread check fails above 25%; an open interest check fails under 100. When a borderline or dead card has failed checks, Card Detail lists them on one line below the breakevens. A card with no failed checks has no such line, and all its marks are ✅.

The CLOSE LMT 25% line is fair times 0.75. Closing at that price keeps 25% of a sale at fair. The close targets are computed from fair and scale with the actual fill. The card shows the note targets scale with the actual fill.

What a card covers

A card shows an unhedged seller the closing quotes, the model price, sell limits, close limits and the breakevens at expiry. A card does not show the chance of a profit, the path of the position before expiry, the margin or the next session's quotes.

The cards use the previous session's end-of-day quotes. The data updates once a day before the open, at 00:15 UTC, Tuesday to Saturday, with a retry at 00:30 New York time. The write-up and the Curated list come from the dispatch run at 07:45 UTC on the same days.

Controls

  • Curated / All screened: the view chips. Curated is the default.
  • Switching view redraws data that Options Dispatch already has.
  • Click a card or row, or press Enter or Space on it, to open its Card Detail.
  • If that Card Detail is already open, the page scrolls it into view.
  • +N more: shows the hidden rows. It does not open a Card Detail. A redraw hides the rows again.

Each Card Detail window shows one symbol, expiry and structure. A card for another expiry opens in a separate window. Press Esc twice quickly to close the focused window. Press Ctrl+Z (Cmd+Z on a Mac) to reopen it.

Widget names in the write-up are shown as chips. Click a chip, or press Enter or Space on it, to add that widget to the dashboard. The guide Read the morning includes an example.

Card Detail has no controls and no entry in the widget picker. It opens only from Options Dispatch. When a card is not found, Card Detail displays No card found for SPY 2026-08-27 straddle. with that card's symbol, expiry and structure.

ControlWhat it does
Options Dispatch
viewCurated or All screened
Card Detail

Use it with

  • Daily Dispatch shows the same Options write-up with the other segments.
  • The Volatility Board shows each symbol's premium and the model's 21-session forecast. The Curated view does not use the Volatility Board.