Criteria are used in the Brutus Options Ranker with an objective specific to your strategy's goal.  The objective can be to minimize, maximize, or target the criterion to a specific value.  The criterion's measure can also be used to filter trades out of your results.  This knowledge-base article gives you a preview of the IV 30d Correlation to SPY IV (1m) calculation details, but the full details can only be viewed inside the app.

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