Before you write a covered call, compare its premium with what similar calls historically paid.
Every screener shows today’s premium. We benchmark it against that stock’s own past calls, matched on:
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From a stock to the evidence, in four steps.
Built by a covered-call writer of 25 years. What arrives: real notes as each stage lands, and a heads-up the day it opens.
What it is
A research tool that shows its work.
Start with a ticker, or with a ready-made list: a sector, a company size, stocks whose options trade actively, or your own holdings. Combine lists to match how you like to write. Each stock's whole chain is then read at once, every expiration against that stock's own past calls at a similar time to expiry.
High for this stock, or just high?
The biggest premium on the board isn't automatically an unusual one. We show what similar calls on the same stock usually paid, so you can see which figures are high for that stock and which are simply high.
Honest blanks where we can't compare
When a stock doesn't have enough similar past calls to compare against, we leave the figure uncoloured and say why, instead of guessing.
Multi-DTE by design
Expiration dates side by side, each compared with that stock's own past calls at a similar distance from expiry.
Why this tool exists
Boring is better.
I've been writing covered calls for 25 years. Most of it on stable dividend-paying stocks that don't make anyone rich in a hurry, but do generate consistent income when you get the setup right.
Every retail screener I tried ranked on premium alone. None of them told me whether a premium was high for that particular stock. So I built something that would.
Just a better way to see how today's premium compares with this stock's own history.
Alex, founder
Why the rebuild
My data only covered a slice of the board.
When I sat down to build the comparison, I needed a decade of covered-call history to measure against. I pulled it, and it looked complete. It wasn't.
It only covered one moment in each trade's life, only the monthly expirations, and only a sample of strikes. A slice of the board that looked like the whole board. That is the trap with data: you cannot see what is missing by looking at what is there.
I could have patched it and shipped. Twenty-five years of writing these has taught me what that leads to: a tool that looks right until the day it isn't. So I am pulling the whole thing again instead. Every strike a covered-call writer would actually use, across every weekly and monthly expiration out to a year, on roughly 2,665 symbols, up to ten years deep, including the 2022 bear market.
And I'm pulling it a third time as I write this. The second pass quietly left out the far strikes, and I only caught it because I asked whether the data was thin out there or simply missing. Same lesson, learned twice.
It costs weeks I would rather not spend. I am spending them. The whole promise of this tool is an honest comparison, and a comparison is only as honest as the data behind it. If I would not trust it, you should not have to.
So I am rebuilding it to see the entire board before I let you near it.
Alex, founder
Where the build is
Follow it from data to launch.
I post the build as it happens, so you can see exactly where it stands, including the stretches that took longer than I wanted.
Rebuilt as a research tool
The covered-call research surface, rebuilt honest and compliant. Site and Learn are live.
Building the test dataset
9.8 million contracts, pulled and audited before a single number got quoted.
Pulling the full dataset
Every expiration, back to 2016, so the comparison sees the whole board, not a slice.
Calibrate and pressure-test
Calibrate each reading against its own history and test how well it holds across strikes, expirations, and market conditions.
The Workbench, open to all
The tool opens, built on the full dataset.
Watchlists and weekly research
Deeper tools and broader coverage as the data supports them.
Occasional notes on how it is coming together, the decisions behind it, and the thinking most tools never show. That is what the list is for.
What you get
What ships when the tool is ready.
Honest about what's in the first release and what comes after.
At launch
The Workbench
- ✓Multi-expiration heatmap, each date compared with that stock's own option history
- ✓Honest blanks where the history runs thin
- ✓Inspector detail on any contract you click
- ✓The market's odds on every contract: a quick read of how likely it is to finish above the strike
After launch
What's in the plan next
- ·Watchlists to track your symbols across scans
- ·Broader symbol coverage as the data supports it
- ·Position tracking and roll planning
We post progress as we go, so you can watch it come together.
Pricing
Start free. Pay when you need more.
One clear paid tier. No trial cliff, no upsell treadmill.
Free
Enough to actually use the tool.
- ✓10 workbench scans
- ✓Opens on the dates and strikes most writers use: the nearer expirations, strikes above the share price
- ✓Full Learn section access
- ✓Inspector detail on every contract with enough history to compare
Pro
Pricing announced at launch
Everything free, plus the room to explore.
- ✓Unlimited scans
- ✓Every strike and expiration on the board
- ✓Everything in Free
Join the list and you'll hear the price when we set it.
Know the day it opens.
No countdown, no urgency games, just a heads-up when it's ready.