Options Screener

Last updated 2026-09-24

A table with one row for every stock in RingMaster's nightly options capture. Think of it as a directory, not a leaderboard. It is the workhorse of the options suite, the way Market Scan is the workhorse of the signals side. See Reading The Options Suite for how to read it.

At a glance

What it shows

The words in these headings, such as implied volatility, open interest, strike and expiry, are explained in Reading The Options Suite. Eight columns ship by default; the two words columns, Pricing and Cost to trade, arrived 2026-09-16 with the publisher posture.

ColumnWhat it is
NameThe ticker.
SpotThe share price at the time of the capture.
ATM IVAt the money implied volatility, quoted as a yearly rate. At the money means the strike nearest today's share price.
IV vs own historyThe share of this name's own weekly implied volatility readings, since its first record, that sit below tonight's reading. 92% means tonight is higher than 92 percent of them. Blank rather than zero when the name has under a year of history.
PricingThe desk's word for where tonight's options sit against this name's own weekly history. Rich, middle or cheap, with the percentile it was decided from, such as "rich, 92%". The word is decided once on the server, so this pane, the Options Snapshot and the Read-out never disagree.
Priced moveHow far option prices are pricing the share to move over the near month. It is given as two numbers, a down leg then an up leg. Each leg is read at the volatility quoted on its own side, so the two are never blended into one number. Elsewhere in the suite it is called the priced range.
Put/CallOpen put contracts per open call contract.
Cost to tradeWhat crossing the market costs at the money. The bid to ask gap as a share of the option's own price, with the desk's word for it: tight, fair or wide, such as "23%, fair". The word ranks the name against the other covered names that same night.

Nine more sit behind the column picker, which is the gear icon.

Using it

Reading it well

Common misreadings. - Row order. A to Z order carries no opinion. The desk computes no score of its own here, and ships no saved filters. - Put/Call describes positioning, not a direction. A high ratio says more puts are open than calls. It says nothing about why, or about what happens next.

Frequently asked questions

Why is the list in A to Z order instead of showing the busiest stocks first? If we picked a default order, we would be choosing which stocks you see first. A to Z by ticker means we do not choose. Any ranked view on screen is a sort you clicked. Does the top row of a column I sorted mean I should look at that stock first? No. That row holds the highest or lowest value in the column you chose. You made that order, and the desk reads nothing into it. What does "Priced move" mean? How far option prices are pricing that name to move over the near month. It is stated as two numbers, a down leg and an up leg. Each leg is read at the volatility quoted on its own side. It restates the quotes from the most recent capture, and it is not a forecast. What extra columns can I add? Click the gear icon to open the column picker. It offers Total OI, Net DWOI, Term slope, 90/110 skew, Top call strike and Top put strike. It also offers Net gamma, Total gamma, Call gamma %, Net gamma sign change, Most net call gamma and Most net put gamma. How fresh are these numbers? They come from the most recent nightly capture, which is one snapshot per trading day. Nothing here is intraday. The capture date is printed in the footer. Does this pane pick which stocks to trade options on? No. It is a reference table of observed market data. Nothing in this pane suggests a trade, names a strategy, or ranks names by how attractive they are. The Ask names which option strategy families fit one name's own readings, in Options strategy families. Why does linking a row here also change what I see on other panes? Clicking a row sets the desk's linked symbol. Every single-name pane reads that symbol, in both the options suite and the signals suite. So the panes that show one name at a time follow the name you clicked.