The Lab
June 8, 2026

Options Buyer Cheat Tool

See What Your Option Pays Before You Buy It.

The Options Buyer Cheat Tool turns a stock move into a dollar payoff map. Pick a move, say plus 3%, and it shows the dollar profit or loss on every buyable contract, the historical chance each one hits your target return on capital, and the theta and gamma you are paying. It is built for anyone buying calls or puts who wants to see the payoff and the odds before paying the premium.

Most option buyers anchor on the strike and the premium and forget two things: the same stock move pays very differently across contracts, and time decay quietly works against them every day. The decision-relevant question is not just whether the stock moves your way, it is how much each contract actually returns on a realistic move, and how often this ticker has delivered that return when conditions looked like today.

That is why the payoff is not linear and the odds are not a coin flip: how much you make depends on the size of the move, how far out the expiration sits, the strike you pick, and the ticker. A near-dated call needs a fast move to beat theta, while a longer-dated one gives up leverage for room. The tool reprices every contract along the ticker's own historical paths, filtered to today's VIX, moving-average, and RSI regime, so the chance reflects the market you are actually trading rather than a textbook bell curve.

What the Tool Shows You

A stock-move dial, the dollar profit or loss on every buyable contract, the historical chance of hitting your target return, live Greeks and breakeven, and one-click filtering to today's VIX, moving average, and RSI regime.

Input

Set the Stock Move

Choose a move, like plus 3% or minus 5%, and the dollar profit or loss on every contract updates.

Headline

Dollar Profit Per Contract

See exactly what each buyable call or put pays on the move you picked.

Probability

Chance of Hitting Your Target

The historical odds each option reaches your target return on capital before expiration.

Greeks

Cost, Delta, Gamma, Theta

Live ask plus the Greeks for every contract, so you see the time decay you are paying.

Filter

Regime Matched

Auto-filtered to today's VIX bucket, 5-day MA position, and RSI(14) reading.

Calendar

Real Expirations

The actual options calendar up to 45 days, with breakevens for calls, puts, and debit spreads.

How Traders are using the Options Buyer Cheat Tool

1

Set the move you expect

Pick the stock move you are trading for. The dollar profit or loss on every buyable contract updates to match.

2

Compare contracts by payoff

See which strike and expiration pays the most for that move, and what each one costs up front.

3

Check the odds before you pay

Read the historical chance each option hits your target return on capital under today's regime, so you are not paying for a move the ticker rarely makes.

4

Weigh the Greeks and breakeven

Check theta, gamma, and the breakeven so you know the time decay you are buying and how far the stock has to travel just to break even.

See what your option pays before you buy it

Open Options Buyer Cheat Tool

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