Best Trades
The trade-type engine - every testing idea, the best structure for it - October 29, 2026 ยท 3:40 PM ET

Best Trades — the highest-expectancy trade type for every idea

Every idea that clears the Testing-15 bar (31 in the funnel, from all ten testing buckets) comes in. For each single stock or ETF, the engine builds a distribution of prices at the nearest option expiry — the stock's own return distribution over that many sessions (its shape only - the trailing trend is removed, because past drift is not an edge), centred on the signal's measured excess over its base (shrunk for sample size) — then prices every structure off today's live option chain and scores it across every scenario.

Ranked by Kelly growth — risk-adjusted expectancy — not by probability of profit alone: selling far out-of-the-money options always "wins" most of the time until the tail arrives. Probability of profit (POP), expected value on risk capital and the 5th-percentile outcome sit beside it. Naked short options are never built (house rule) - short premium is always a defined-risk spread, iron condor or iron fly. Sizes are a quarter of Kelly, capped at 0.75% of NAV at risk for options and 7.5% notional for stock. Staged for review — nothing is placed. Click a row for every structure the engine tried.

#IdeaBest structurePOPEV / risk5th pctKelly growthSuggested size
1QCOM long
Weekly Ideas · edge +8 · ~1 week
short vol Iron condor
buy 11-06 162.5P @ 1.72 · sell 11-06 177.5P @ 5.85 · sell 11-06 192.5C @ 5.41 · buy 11-06 210C @ 1.81
85%+50.7%-74%28.425 contract(s), ~$5,641 at risk
2MCHP short
Weekly Ideas · edge +6 · ~1 week
short vol Iron fly (8% wings)
buy 11-06 74P @ 1.64 · sell 11-06 81P @ 4.22 · sell 11-06 81C @ 3.52 · buy 11-06 87C @ 1.68
66%+40.4%-100%10.6322 contract(s), ~$5,641 at risk
3ABNB short
Weekly Ideas · edge +8 · ~2 weeks
credit Bear call spread (credit)
sell 11-13 170C @ 5.94 · buy 11-13 182.5C @ 2.28
80%+19.8%-93%7.326 contract(s), ~$5,641 at risk
4DASH short
Daily Testing · edge +10 · ~1 month
stock Short stock undefined risk
short stock @ 180.73
68%+6.1%-11%5.38312 sh (~$56,413)
5DVN long
Weekly Ideas · edge +7 · ~1 week
credit Bull put spread (credit)
sell 11-06 50P @ 1.00 · buy 11-06 46P @ 0.14
79%+11.0%-70%4.1817 contract(s), ~$5,641 at risk
6NFLX short
Weekly Ideas · edge +6 · ~3 weeks
long vol Long put (ATM)
buy 11-20 62P @ 1.87
46%+44.6%-100%4.1730 contract(s), ~$5,641 at risk
7PANW long
Weekly Ideas · edge +16 · ~3 weeks
credit Bull put spread (credit)
sell 11-20 360P @ 15.16 · buy 11-20 330P @ 6.89
79%+14.2%-100%3.702 contract(s), ~$5,641 at risk
8SLB long
Weekly Ideas · edge +22 · ~1 month
stock Long stock
buy stock @ 53.92
61%+2.9%-12%2.521046 sh (~$56,413)
9PWR short
Weekly Ideas · edge +24 · ~1 week
income Covered put (short stock + short put) undefined risk
short stock @ 635.59 · sell 11-20 590P @ 10.80
70%+2.6%-11%2.3388 sh (~$56,413)
10ISRG long
Weekly Ideas · edge +32 · ~1 month
stock Long stock
buy stock @ 448.02
62%+2.5%-10%2.11125 sh (~$56,413)
11MLM long
Daily Testing · edge +26 · ~2 weeks
income Covered call (long stock + short call)
buy stock @ 535.40 · sell 11-20 560C @ 8.45
71%+2.2%-7%2.10105 sh (~$56,413)
12STX short
Weekly Ideas · edge +30 · ~1 month
credit Bear call spread (credit)
sell 11-27 705C @ 44.95 · buy 11-27 760C @ 27.00
75%+13.3%-100%2.091 contract(s), ~$5,641 at risk
13ACN long
Weekly Ideas · edge +8 · ~2 weeks
income Covered call (long stock + short call)
buy stock @ 246.10 · sell 11-13 255C @ 4.97
70%+1.4%-8%1.25229 sh (~$56,413)
14BKR long
Weekly Ideas · edge +9 · ~2 weeks
income Covered call (long stock + short call)
buy stock @ 54.49 · sell 11-20 55C @ 1.65
72%+1.2%-8%1.061035 sh (~$56,413)
15NOC long
Weekly Ideas · edge +23 · ~2 weeks
income Covered call (long stock + short call)
buy stock @ 561.21 · sell 11-20 580C @ 8.12
66%+1.0%-7%0.90100 sh (~$56,413)
16CTVA short
Weekly Ideas · edge +12 · ~1 week
stock Short stock undefined risk
short stock @ 11.44
55%+1.1%-10%0.904931 sh (~$56,413)
17VMC long
Daily Testing · edge +17 · ~1 month
stock Long stock
buy stock @ 280.67
56%+0.9%-9%0.68200 sh (~$56,413)
18ABT long
Weekly Ideas · edge +6 · ~2 weeks
income Covered call (long stock + short call)
buy stock @ 104.32 · sell 11-13 107C @ 1.13
65%+0.6%-6%0.56540 sh (~$56,413)
19URI long
Weekly Ideas · edge +7 · ~2 weeks
stock Long stock
buy stock @ 1,194.22
54%+0.8%-12%0.5447 sh (~$56,413)
20HD long
Weekly Ideas · edge +6 · ~1 week
income Covered call (long stock + short call)
buy stock @ 327.20 · sell 11-06 335C @ 2.42
63%+0.6%-4%0.52172 sh (~$56,413)
21ICE long
Weekly Ideas · edge +5 · ~2 weeks
income Covered call (long stock + short call)
buy stock @ 164.60 · sell 11-13 167.5C @ 2.55
64%+0.5%-6%0.46342 sh (~$56,413)
22COIN short
Weekly Ideas · edge +7 · ~3 weeks
long vol Long straddle (ATM)
buy 11-20 160C @ 11.29 · buy 11-20 160P @ 11.95
44%+7.9%-92%0.462 contract(s), ~$5,641 at risk
23AVGO long
Daily Testing · edge +5 · ~2 weeks
stock Long stock
buy stock @ 344.05
52%+0.7%-14%0.30163 sh (~$56,413)
24BSX long
Weekly Ideas · edge +5 · ~1 month
income Covered call (long stock + short call)
buy stock @ 43.06 · sell 11-27 45C @ 0.82
63%+0.1%-14%0.00567 sh (~$24,446)
Not evaluated (7): Assumptions: held to expiry; buys at mid + 25% of the spread, sells at mid − 25%; live two-sided quotes only, legs wider than 35% of mid rejected; undefined-risk structures carry a 20%-of-spot risk capital. The scenario distribution is a model — there is no option price history to backtest structures directly. Educational research, not advice.