About Hourglass Trader

Start with SPY, QQQ and VIX, with one-session charts alongside their daily moves. The sector heat map and HT Watchlist put those moves in context.

Scanner Convergence counts how many independent scanners flag each stock. Every contributing scanner gets a dot, with stronger green highlights as more signals overlap. Mixed signals are marked separately. Open a stock to inspect the underlying results; agreement between scanners is a reason to research, not a measure of certainty.

Product snapshot · Sep 30, 2026 · Open Signal Summary →

Compare put premium with the cash needed to cover assignment. Return on risk is calculated from the quoted bid divided by the strike, so the comparison does not depend on receiving a midpoint fill. Rows show the stock price, strike, expiration, distance out of the money and both sides of the quote.

Contracts must pass positive, two-sided quote and spread checks. The Premium Score combines bid-based return with distance out of the money. Sort the columns or filter by ticker and expiration to narrow the list. A larger premium still comes with the risk of owning the shares if assigned.

Product snapshot · Sep 30, 2026 · Open High RoR Puts →

Investigate large put trades identified as sales. The table shows the contract, execution price, premium, notional exposure and fill quality. Prints identified as part of a spread are excluded. A large trade alone does not establish who placed it, whether it opens a position or why it was placed.

Use the quick filters for the latest session or last five trading sessions, trades at or below the bid, size and time to expiration. Clean directional keeps single-leg prints at or below the bid that are not marked as rolls.

Expand Most sold names to see two separate top-five lists: one ranked by premium and one by notional exposure. Both follow your filters, so the leaders reflect the trades you are viewing.

Product snapshot · Sep 30, 2026 · Open Unusual Put Sales →

Find tracked stocks with a 14-period RSI of 32 or lower, or 70 or higher. Each row shows the stock price, RSI and zone. The zone label distinguishes deeper oversold readings from extended overbought readings.

Use these readings to focus chart research on names that have moved sharply. RSI can stay stretched during a strong trend; an extreme reading does not establish that a reversal is next.

Product snapshot · Sep 30, 2026 · Open Oversold / Overbought →

Follow volatility alerts, sharp price moves and trading halts. Color-coded sources distinguish HT Alert, Price shock and Trading halt so you can quickly see what brought a stock onto the screen.

Compare the current stock price and daily change with the price near the alert and the change since then. Implied volatility, its change, volume and the alert date add context. Reconstructed alert prices are marked approximate with their observation time; missing baselines remain blank.

Product snapshot · Sep 30, 2026 · Open IV Reversion →

Find stocks where out-of-the-money calls carry more premium than puts at similar distances from the share price. The skew compares the selected call bid with the selected put ask at the same expiration.

Every displayed trade is a stock collar: own 100 shares, sell one call and buy one protective put. See both strikes, quoted prices, expiration and the net option credit together. The stock purchase is separate from that credit, and the short call caps the upside. Quote freshness, spread, size and open-interest checks screen the legs before inclusion; check the displayed quote times before placing an order.

A poor man’s covered call replaces the shares with a longer-dated, deep-in-the-money call and sells a shorter-dated call against it. This list can be a starting point for that research, but it does not price those long-call legs or present completed PMCC trades.

Product snapshot · Sep 30, 2026 · Open Call Skew / PMCC →

Keep the stocks HT is following in one place. Compare current prices and performance over the day, week, two weeks and 30 days. The 52-week range marker shows where each price sits relative to its recent high and low.

Filter by ticker or company, then sort the columns to see which names are moving and which are near either end of their range.

Product snapshot · Sep 30, 2026 · Open HT Watchlist →

Browse the positions and trades recorded in HT’s weekly tracker. Each entry preserves the reported strategy, quantity, position details, opening price, closing price or mark, and profit or loss.

Search by ticker, strategy or position, or sort the list by ticker and reported profit or loss. The list reflects the tracker’s entries; it is not an account balance or a promise that every entry is still open.

Illustrative example · Sample positions and P&L · Open Live Portfolio →

Review reported stock purchases from SEC Form 4 filings. The newest transaction dates appear first, with larger dollar amounts first within each date. The filing date is shown separately so you can distinguish when a trade happened from when it became public.

Filter by insider role, trade date, the stock’s move since the reported transaction price, or trades over $1 million. Expand the cluster summary to find companies where multiple distinct insiders bought. Joint reporters of the same ownership position are counted together.

Product snapshot · Sep 30, 2026 · Open Insider Buying →

Use a separate view for reported stock sales, with the same transaction-date ordering and filters as Insider Buying. The expandable cluster summary counts distinct sellers separately from buyers.

Sales can reflect diversification, taxes or scheduled trading plans as well as an insider’s outlook. Open the linked filing for the transaction’s context. The coverage note identifies any filing dates still being collected.

Product snapshot · Sep 30, 2026 · Open Insider Selling →

Enter a strategy, stock price, strikes, premium and number of contracts to explore how the position behaves. The calculator shows profit and loss across a range of stock prices and dates, plus maximum profit, maximum loss and breakeven where applicable.

Expand the expiration payoff chart to see the final payoff shape. Values before expiration are model estimates based on your inputs, not quoted prices or predictions. No signup is required.

Product snapshot · Sep 30, 2026 · Open Options Profit Calculator →