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Ranker Criteria, Filters, and Signals

Here you’ll find helpful definitions and resources for the available criteria to add to your Brutus Options Ranker strategies.

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OTM

Determines if any of the spread or trade is OTM (Out-of-The-Money). Returns 1/0 for true/false and can only be used as a filter, not as a criterion.

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ATM

Determines if the spread or trade is ATM (At-The-Money). This means that the strike price at the nearest strike price against the current underlying/stock price. Returns 1/0 for true/false and can only be used as a filter, not as a criterion.

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Avg Earning Effect Vs Implied Earn Effect

The actual of the avg earnings effect divided by the implied earning effect as a ratio, not as %

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Margin Requirement

The initial margin requirement (buying power reduction) to put on the trade.

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EMA 200d Cross Below Signal

Signals true when a ticker’s last price at time of ranking crosses from yesterday’s previous value above the 200d exponential moving average (EMA) to below the 200d EMA

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Exponential Moving Average 200d

200-day Exponential Moving Average on daily close time interval

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EMA 200d Cross Above Signal

EMA 200d Cross Above filter. Signals true (with a 1) when an underlying last price goes from below the 200d EMA the day before to above the 200d EMA.

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Gamma

The current expected change in delta’s value for a $1 move in the underlying.

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Vega

Vega, one of the options greeks, quantifies the predicted change in the option contracts value in response to a 1% change in the underlying assets implied volatility.

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Dividend Rate (Total Payments in Year)

The dividend rate is the total amount of dividend payments made by the company or ETF in a year (usually from 4 quarterly payments). It is different from the dividend yield, which is defined as the dividend-rate/share-price.

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