07Charts & technicals
Each stock detail view includes an interactive price chart with technical overlays. Here's how to use it:
Time ranges & intervals
Click the range buttons at the top of the chart: 1Y (one year) or 5Y (five years). Use the interval toggle to switch between 60min, Daily, and Weekly bars. For wheel trading, 1Y daily is the default and most useful. The 60-minute view is great for fine-tuning entries. 5Y weekly provides broader historical context.
Zoom & pan
The chart defaults to showing the most recent 250 bars for readability with TradingView-style interactions:
- Drag on the chart — pans left/right through history. Grab and drag naturally to scroll through older price action.
- Drag on the time axis (bottom) — horizontal zoom. Drag right to zoom in, left to zoom out.
- Drag on the price axis (right side) — vertical zoom. Drag up to zoom in on the price range, down to zoom out.
- Scroll wheel — zooms in and out.
- Double-click — resets all zoom back to the default view.
Chart types
Toggle between Line (simple price line with filled area) and Candles (OHLC candlesticks showing open, high, low, close). Candles give you more information but take practice to read.
Technical overlays
Use the toggle buttons to show or hide overlays:
- SMA / EMA — Click to cycle through Off → SMA → EMA → Off. Shows 50-period (blue) and 200-period (pink) moving averages. SMA uses a simple average; EMA weights recent prices more heavily, making it more responsive.
- BB — Bollinger Bands (yellow dashed lines). When price touches the lower band, the stock may be oversold — a good time for a CSP. Touching the upper band suggests overbought — a good time for a CC.
- RSI — Relative Strength Index shown in a separate panel below the chart. Below 30 (green zone) = oversold. Above 70 (red zone) = overbought. These are the same readings that drive the entry signals.
- Pivots — Projection Pivot levels shown as thin dashed horizontal lines from each detected swing high/low to the right edge of the chart. Lines are colored green when price is above the level (support held) and red when price is below (resistance overhead). Additionally, diagonal trendlines connect the last two pivot highs (red) and last two pivot lows (green), projecting the price channel forward. Pivots are detected using the highest/lowest bar within a window of up to 21 bars on each side.
- Trend — Colors each bar or line segment by trend direction using an EMA Ribbon — five exponential moving averages (8, 13, 21, 34, 55). When 3 or more of the 4 adjacent EMA pairs are stacked bullishly (shorter above longer), bars are green. When 3+ pairs are bearish, bars are red. When the EMAs are tangled with no clear order, bars are yellow (sideways/choppy).
- ✏ S/R (Drawing Tool) — Click the ✏ S/R button to enter drawing mode. While active, click anywhere on the chart to place a horizontal support/resistance line at that price. Lines are colored automatically: green above the current price (resistance) and red below (support). Each line shows a price label. Click the ✏ S/R button again to exit drawing mode — your lines stay on the chart. Right-click near any line to remove it individually, or click ✕ Clear to remove all lines at once.
Expand / fullscreen
Click the expand icon in the toolbar to make the chart fill the entire screen. Click it again (or press ESC) to return to the normal size. This is useful for detailed technical analysis.
08Options chain
At the bottom of the stock detail view, you'll find the live options chain — the actual put and call contracts you can trade.
Reading the chain
Contracts are organized by expiration date (shown as tabs like “10 Mar (14d)”). For each expiration, you'll see two tables:
- Cash-Secured Puts — the contracts you'd sell if opening a new CSP position. Look at strikes below the current price.
- Covered Calls — the contracts you'd sell if you already own the stock. Look at strikes above the current price.
Key columns
| Column | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Strike | The price at which you’d buy (put) or sell (call) 100 shares if assigned. |
| Bid / Ask | The prices buyers and sellers are quoting. You’ll typically get filled near the midpoint. The tighter the spread, the better. |
| Vol | Volume — how many contracts traded today. Higher = more active. |
| OI | Open Interest — how many contracts are currently open. Higher = more liquidity, easier to roll. |
| IV | Implied Volatility — how much premium is baked in. Higher IV = bigger premiums. This is what you’re selling. |
| Yield | The premium as a percentage of the stock price. This is your potential return for this one trade. |