Optionsamurai

Option Samurai is an options analysis platform for retail investors built around an options screener. The scanner searches the US equity options market against user-defined criteria and returns candidate trades, drawing on more than eight data sources and maintaining hundreds of data points for over one million US stocks and options, including corporate actions, fundamentals, technical indicators, Greeks, IV rank, open interest and unusual activity. The platform supports 24 option strategies such as covered calls, cash-secured puts, long calls and puts, married calls and puts, bull and bear call and put spreads, straddles, strangles, iron condors, diagonals and butterflies, and offers roughly 170 filters for building scans.

The product is organized around a scan-analyze-trade workflow. Users run pre-built or custom scans, analyze results with tools including an implied volatility curve analyzer, IV skew and put/call skew analysis, a volatility suite (IV rank, IV versus realized volatility, historical volatility charts), a stock analyzer and the proprietary Samurai Stock Score, then record positions in a trade log to track open trades or paper-test ideas. Additional features include saved scans, intraday scan watching with alerts when new matching trades appear, a full-featured mobile version, Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets integrations, export for external analysis, and premium aggregated-market reports such as Center of Mass and Open Interest.

In June 2025 the company launched a Custom Options Screener that lets users define arbitrary structures of up to five legs (up to four option legs plus one stock leg), setting direction, quantity and option type per leg with dynamic per-leg filters for delta, premium, days to expiry and breakeven. It includes a scenario engine for testing strategy behavior under price, volatility and time-decay changes, and sorting tools to compare ROI, edge, probability of profit and bid-ask spread. A later Q3 2026 release added smart watchlists linked to scans, scheduled email reports, five new technical indicators and industry filters. The company also publishes educational and research content through its blog, including backtest files for indicator-based strategies and trade-idea write-ups.

Founding story

Founder and CEO Leav Graves, a trader of more than 20 years and a licensed portfolio manager, created the first version of Option Samurai in Excel as a personal tool while working as a portfolio manager and trading options after hours, needing a fast way to focus on relevant data without watching markets all day. When spreadsheets could no longer handle the data and analytics he wanted, a friend helped turn it into a proper software tool, and access for other users started as an afterthought once acquaintances asked to use it.

Business model

Option Samurai sells direct subscription access to its web and mobile options analysis platform to self-directed traders, with a 14-day free trial requiring no credit card and tiered monthly, quarterly or annual plans that can be cancelled at any time. Higher tiers unlock more strategy legs, unlimited linked trading accounts in the trade log, intraday scan watching, spreadsheet integrations and premium research reports.

Recurring subscription revenue from individual traders. Current plans are advertised at $39 per month for the Beginner tier and $59 per month for the Advanced tier when paid annually, with annual billing offering savings of up to 20%; an earlier version of the site listed monthly, quarterly and yearly plans at $49 per month, $140 per quarter and $468 per year at promotional prices. Refunds on longer plans were previously offered pro rata, and subscriptions can be cancelled at any time.

Traction

The site publishes customer testimonials collected over several years from users in the United States and Europe, and the company reports that its platform was introduced through Citi's Innovation Lab program. Specific user or revenue figures are not disclosed publicly.