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Options Trading Journal

Track every options contract — from open to close, roll, assignment, or expiration. 30+ predefined strategies detected automatically. Rollover chains, per-leg P&L, option Greeks, IV, and ledger-accurate accounting — so you know exactly where each number came from.

Log Your First Options Trade

Rollover chains, strategy badges, per-leg P&L, Greeks, break-even, and your own tags — all in one table.

Log Single-Leg Trades in Seconds

Covered calls, cash-secured puts, protective puts, naked options — pick the contract type, enter your strike and premium, and you're done. Optionally capture delta, theta, gamma, vega, and implied volatility at open and again at close to track how conditions shifted.

Greeks show up right in the trade table — sortable, filterable, and easy to toggle on or off.

Multi-Leg Positions with Auto Strategy Detection

Iron condors, vertical spreads, butterflies, straddles — add up to 8 legs and TickerScribe identifies the strategy automatically based on strikes, expirations, and contract types. No manual tagging.

Net premium, aggregate Greeks, and per-leg P&L are computed for the entire position. Close individual legs or the whole position at once. A spread closes the way you actually closed it: enter the net debit or credit and the per-leg prices are derived from it, with a warning when two leg prices look swapped.

30+ Strategies with Payoff Diagrams

Filter by market direction — Bullish, Bearish, or Neutral — and see every strategy side by side. Each card includes a short description and a payoff-at-expiration diagram so you can quickly identify the structure you need.

Pick a strategy and the trade form opens with the correct legs already set up. Add your strikes, premiums, and expiration — the structure is handled for you.

Close It the Way You Actually Closed It

Bought back four of ten short puts? Enter how many contracts you're closing and the four become a completed trade with their own realized result, while the six stay open. A staged exit reads as a staged exit instead of forcing you to close early or close all of it — and a scaled position keeps the strategy label it started with.

Expiry is one click, and a multi-leg position can expire as a whole — an iron condor that ran to Friday is one action, not four. Both are reversible: Reopen puts a trade or a position back if you clicked too early, including a spread that only half-expired. And when expiration doesn't resolve cleanly — one leg worthless, one assigned, one closed early — Settle at Expiration takes the whole position in one pass: say what happened to each leg and it resolves together, with the assigned shares landing in the right stock position.

Two columns answer two different questions: DTE is the days to expiry the trade had when you opened it — the number you sized it on, and it never changes. Days Left counts down from today. Break-even is a column of its own — what the underlying has to reach for the position to come out even, premiums included — and your own tags are another, with a filter that narrows the table to the ones you pick.

The Details That Keep the Numbers Honest

P&L % your way

Options P&L % has always been return on collateral: what the trade returned against the capital it tied up. Plenty of short-premium traders read it the other way — what share of the credit did you keep? Pick Return on collateral or Trade ROI per account and it applies everywhere the number appears. Collateral stays the default.

Index options, handled as cash-settled

Index options don't deliver shares, so offering to assign or exercise one was offering nonsense. Index roots are recognized as cash-settled: those actions are hidden on index contracts, no phantom share position appears behind them, and the wheel declines to open a cycle on something that can never hand you stock.

Adjusted debit

What a position has cost you net of the premium collected against it, rather than the raw debit you paid on day one. The number that tells you where the trade really stands.

Where the underlying was

An option can carry the underlying's price at entry, at close and at a roll — optional, in its own collapsed section beside the Greeks, and read from broker files where the statement has it. It's what makes “how far out of the money was I when I opened this?” answerable afterwards.

Group and ungroup positions

Legs that should have been one position — and positions that should have been separate — can be regrouped by hand. Useful after an import read a multi-leg order as separate contracts, or when you legged into a spread across two days.

Paste a contract symbol

Paste a standard option symbol into the ticker field and the strike, expiry and side fill themselves in. Works on single-leg and multi-leg entry.

Fix a strategy label

If detection called your structure something you disagree with, correct the label instead of living with it. Your read of the trade wins.

Default commissions

Set a per-contract options fee and a flat stock fee on the account, and entry forms fill them in for you, scaled by contract count. One less field to retype on every trade.

Turn Trades into Insights

Analyze your options trades across every dimension — strategy P&L breakdown, win rate by strategy, outcome distribution, days-to-expiration performance, and price-range patterns. Instantly see which strategies actually work and which ones quietly bleed.

Filter by date range, ticker, or strategy to drill into the patterns that matter. The data is already there — TickerScribe just surfaces what's worth knowing.

Built for How Options Actually Work

Rollover Chains

Roll a covered call or CSP and TickerScribe links the contracts into a single chain — opening credit, closing debit, net premium, and cumulative P&L across every roll.

Assignment & Expiration

One-click assignment, exercise, or expiration. Stock acquisitions are recorded automatically at the strike, the full premium credits to your realized P&L, and your holding shows an effective break-even with that premium folded in.

Greeks & IV at Open and Close

Capture delta, gamma, theta, vega, and implied volatility when you open and when you close. Compare entry vs. exit side by side in the trade table.

Ledger-Accurate P&L

Every premium, commission, and assignment is posted to a double-entry ledger. Per-leg, per-chain, and total position P&L are derived from entries that must balance — accurate to the penny.

30+ Predefined Strategies

Enter your legs and TickerScribe detects the strategy automatically — based on strikes, expirations, and contract types. No manual tagging needed.

Single-Leg

Cash-Secured Put (CSP)

Sell a put backed by cash to buy shares at a lower price or collect premium.

Covered Call

Sell a call against shares you own to generate income on an existing position.

Protective Put

Buy a put to hedge downside risk on shares you hold.

Long Call

A directional bet on upside — defined risk, with profit that grows as the underlying rises.

Long Put

A directional bet on downside — defined risk, with profit that grows as the underlying falls.

Naked Put

Sell a put without a hedge — collect premium upfront, with assignment risk tracked via max-risk indicators.

Naked Call

Sell a call without a hedge — collect premium, with uncapped risk tracked via max-risk indicators.

Vertical Spreads

Bull Put Spread

Sell a higher-strike put and buy a lower-strike put — bullish, defined risk, net credit.

Bear Put Spread

Buy a higher-strike put and sell a lower-strike put — bearish, defined risk, net debit.

Bull Call Spread

Buy a lower-strike call and sell a higher-strike call — bullish, defined risk, net debit.

Bear Call Spread

Sell a lower-strike call and buy a higher-strike call — bearish, defined risk, net credit.

Straddles & Strangles

Long Straddle

Buy a call and a put at the same strike — profit from a large move in either direction.

Short Straddle

Sell a call and a put at the same strike — profit from low volatility and time decay.

Long Strangle

Buy a call and a put at different strikes — cheaper than a straddle, needs a bigger move.

Short Strangle

Sell a call and a put at different strikes — wider profit zone than a short straddle.

Calendar & Diagonal Spreads

Calendar Call Spread

Same strike calls, different expirations — profit from time decay differences between near and far contracts.

Calendar Put Spread

Same strike puts, different expirations — same concept as a calendar call spread, built with puts.

Diagonal Call Spread

Different strike calls, different expirations — combines directional bias with time decay.

Diagonal Put Spread

Different strike puts, different expirations — directional bias with time decay using puts.

Butterflies

Long Call Butterfly

Buy-sell-buy calls at three strikes — low-cost, defined-risk bet on a specific price target.

Long Put Butterfly

Buy-sell-buy puts at three strikes — same structure as a long call butterfly, built with puts.

Short Call Butterfly

Sell-buy-sell calls at three strikes — net credit, profits when the underlying moves away from the center strike.

Short Put Butterfly

Sell-buy-sell puts at three strikes — same structure as a short call butterfly, built with puts.

Condors

Long Call Condor

Buy-sell-sell-buy calls at four strikes — wider profit zone than a butterfly, defined risk.

Long Put Condor

Buy-sell-sell-buy puts at four strikes — same structure as a long call condor, built with puts.

Iron Condors & Iron Butterflies

Iron Condor

Sell a put spread and a call spread — defined risk, profits when the underlying stays in a range.

Iron Butterfly

Like an iron condor with the short strikes at the same price — tighter range, higher premium collected.

Inverse Iron Condor

Buy a put spread and a call spread — net debit, profits from a large move in either direction.

Inverse Iron Butterfly

Like an inverse iron condor with the long strikes at the same price — cheaper entry, needs a bigger move.

Other

Collar

Buy a protective put and sell a covered call — limits both upside and downside, often used to hedge stock positions.

Custom Positions

Custom (Up to 8 Legs)

Build any combination of puts and calls with different strikes, expirations, and quantities. TickerScribe tracks net premium, per-leg P&L, and max risk for any structure you create.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What option strategies does TickerScribe support?
Over 30 predefined strategies: covered calls, cash-secured puts, protective puts, bull and bear put spreads, bull and bear call spreads, iron condors, iron butterflies, inverse iron condors, inverse iron butterflies, long and short call and put butterflies, long call and put condors, long and short straddles, long and short strangles, calendar and diagonal call and put spreads, collars, and naked options. You can also create fully custom multi-leg positions with up to 8 legs. Strategy detection is automatic — just enter your legs and TickerScribe identifies the strategy.
Does TickerScribe support the wheel strategy?
Yes. The wheel strategy — selling cash-secured puts, getting assigned, then selling covered calls — is tracked naturally. CSPs and covered calls are predefined strategies. When a put gets assigned, TickerScribe records the stock acquisition and adjusts your cost basis. You can then sell covered calls against those shares and track the full cycle.
Can TickerScribe track option rollovers?
Yes. Rollover chains automatically link related rolls so you can see the full history and cumulative P&L of a rolled position across every leg.
What option Greeks does TickerScribe track?
Delta, gamma, theta, vega, and implied volatility (IV) — captured at both open and close. This lets you compare your Greeks and IV at entry versus exit, so you can evaluate how conditions shifted over the life of each trade.
How does TickerScribe handle assignments and expirations?
Mark any trade as assigned or expired with one click — expiry doesn't even open a dialog, since it has nothing to ask you. A multi-leg position can expire as a whole, so an iron condor that ran to Friday is one action. P&L adjusts to the outcome and the position closes cleanly. A single leg can be assigned or exercised on its own while the rest of the position keeps running. And if contracts have piled up past expiry, Review expired options gathers them, shows which ones were in the money at the close, and confirms the batch in one action.
Can I close part of an options position?
Yes. Enter how many contracts you're closing and the closed portion becomes its own completed trade with its own result, while the remainder stays open. The position shows how many contracts are still live, and every P&L view treats the staged exit as a staged exit.
Can I undo an expiry I marked too early?
Yes. Reopen puts a trade or a whole position back to open, including a spread that only half-expired. Clicking expire on a Friday afternoon is no longer a decision you have to live with if the contract turns out to have been closed instead.
What's the difference between DTE and Days Left?
DTE is the days to expiry the trade had when you opened it — the number you sized the position on, and it never changes. Days Left counts down from today to expiry. Both columns are available because they answer different questions: one about the decision, one about the clock.
Is options P&L % return on collateral or return on premium?
Whichever you prefer. Return on collateral is the default: what the trade returned against the capital it tied up. Pick Trade ROI instead and a credit sold at 2.00 and bought back at 0.50 reads as +75%. It's a per-account setting and applies everywhere the number appears.
How are index options handled?
As cash-settled, because they are. Index roots are recognized, so assign and exercise are hidden on those contracts, no phantom share position appears behind them, and the wheel declines to open a cycle on something that can never hand you stock.
Can I see profit and loss per individual option leg?
Yes. Every leg records its own realized P&L, so you can evaluate each decision independently — even when the leg is part of a longer rollover chain.
How does TickerScribe calculate options P&L?
Every trade is posted to a double-entry ledger. Premiums received, premiums paid, commissions, and assignment proceeds each get their own ledger entry — so P&L is derived from entries that must balance, not from formulas. This means per-leg P&L, per-chain rollover P&L, and total position P&L are all accurate down to the penny.
How do I manage options trades quickly?
Right-click any trade on desktop or long-press on mobile to open a context menu with roll, close, edit, delete, duplicate, group or ungroup legs, settle at expiration, and mark-as-assigned or expired — all inline without leaving the table.

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