Here you’ll find helpful definitions and resources for the available criteria to add to your Brutus Options Ranker strategies.
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Slope Percentile (1y)
The current slope compared to the high-low range from the past year. Slope is the best-fit straight line through the strike volatilities tangent to the 50-delta. It gives us an indication of the price of out of the money options vs. in-the-money. A high relative slope is ideal when selling OTM options and should be avoided when buying OTM and selling ITM.
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Above 200d SMA Signal
Returns true if the current underlying price is above the 200d simple moving average and false if below.
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Underlying % of 200d SMA
Calculates the percent of the current ticker price against the underlying 200d simple moving average (SMA). A percent less than 100% show that the underlying is trending below its average and above 100% shows the underlying is trending above the SMA.
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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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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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200d SMA Cross Above Signal
Signals true when a ticker’s last price at time of ranking crosses from yesterday’s previous value below the 200d simple moving average (SMA) to above the 200d SMA
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Moneyness
Moneyness returns one of three labels that can be used for filters: 0) OTM 1) ATM 2) ITM