RESEARCH & SCREENERS
Market Chameleon Guide for Options Research
Learn how to use Market Chameleon screeners, calendars and volatility research alongside The Options Guide’s strategy calculators.
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What Market Chameleon adds to your research
The Options Guide explains how strategies work and lets you model positions with manual inputs. Market Chameleon provides a separate research environment for screening contracts and studying earnings, volatility and trading activity. Moving between the two can help you connect an educational example to market conditions.
This guide describes a research workflow. It does not rate trade candidates or promise trading results.
Choose a starting point
| Your question | Start here | Check next |
|---|---|---|
| Which contracts match a spread? | Bull Call Spreads [Debit] | Expiration, strike width, bid/ask spread and event dates. |
| What could I research for a covered call? | Covered Calls | Stock downside, capped upside and dividend dates. |
| How does volatility compare across stocks? | Implied Volatility Rankings | Earnings timing and whether the comparison uses the same horizon. |
| What happens around earnings? | Earnings Option Strategy Screener | Historical sample, pricing assumptions and the risk of a larger move. |
| Where is option activity unusual? | Unusual Option Volume | Liquidity and context; volume alone does not establish a bullish or bearish forecast. |
A bull call spread research workflow
- Read our bull call spread lesson to understand the debit, capped profit and breakeven.
- Use the calculator to explore a hypothetical position.
- Open the matching screener and narrow the research by expiration and strike width.
- Review earnings, dividends and liquidity. Compare executable prices with your broker’s quotes.
- Enter your own chosen assumptions into the calculator to compare scenarios. Nothing is transferred automatically.
Calendars on The Options Guide
Our earnings calendar and dividend calendar use official Market Chameleon widgets. They load automatically when you open the calendar page. Some selections or linked research require a provider account.
Access and subscriptions
Market Chameleon offers public pages and premium research features. Full screener filters, saved research and downloads may require a paid plan. Check the provider’s current feature list and checkout terms before subscribing.
The published Premium offer checked on October 1, 2026 was $99 per month with a one-week trial. The trial becomes a paid subscription unless canceled before it ends; prices and terms can change.
Keep the limits in view
- Market data is labeled delayed by 15 minutes; it is not an execution quote.
- Historical results and theoretical win rates are not probabilities guaranteed for your next trade.
- Trading costs, fills, assignment, funding and taxes can change an outcome.
- Screeners help organize research. They do not determine whether a position suits your circumstances.
- Our research links send only page and placement identifiers. Calculator entries and saved positions are not included.
Provider references
Widget documentation · Feature documentation · Subscription details
