Discount Options
Discounted calls, the Entry Zone, Secure, Double and Press, Plus
20 questions about Discount Options
How do I get into Discount Options?Open Discount Options in the menu on the left of your members area: it opens the dashboard signed in. On the dashboard's own sign-in, use the exact email you signed up with.
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What is Discount Options? What is a "discounted" option?A scanner for call options whose price has been marked down hard during a temporary pullback in a strong, liquid stock. Cheap is not the same as discounted: it looks for fresh premium damage in a controlled pullback inside an uptrend, on contracts with real volume and time.
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How is Discount Options different from Options Recon?Options Recon shows where the biggest one-sided money went on the options tape, with no trade plan. Discount Options finds call options that got cheap in a stock's pullback and gives each one an Entry Zone and three profit levels to plan around.
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What are Secure, Double and Press, and the Entry Zone?The Entry Zone is the price range for the contract before a setup becomes actionable. Secure, Double and Press are the profit levels to plan around: +50%, +100% and +200% of the premium (a 2.00 premium: 3.00, 4.00, 6.00).
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What do the two labels on each Discount Options row mean?Every row has two separate labels: the scanner read (why the option is discounted) and the time horizon (how long the contract has).
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What is the Trade Playbook on each Discount Options setup?Each setup's page has a Trade Playbook specific to it: how much to take at Secure, Double and Press, when to close by the days left, when adding is or is not sensible, and a loss limit, all depending on whether it is short-dated, swing or position.
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What does "Tracking only · no new entry" mean?The contract triggered recently and is above its recorded entry, so it stays visible for follow-through and milestone tracking, but the scanner is no longer recommending a fresh entry.
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How often does Discount Options scan?The auto-scan runs every 30 minutes during market hours, and you can run a fresh scan from the Opportunities page. Smart Alerts check every 15 minutes.
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What does Discount Options Plus add?The Plus Live Radar and War Room (the continuous scanner), the Plus Telegram room for fresh high-conviction setups and Prime Discount Index triggers, and Smart Alert phone alerts. In-app alerts are included with the base level.
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How do Discount Options Smart Alerts work?The scanner checks every 15 minutes in US market hours. New qualifying events appear in Smart Alerts and as an in-app pop-up while you are signed in; you choose the triggers: new high-conviction setups, a watched setup entering its entry zone, first target reached, and more.
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What is My Trades in Discount Options?Your private journal: track a setup with your actual entry price and quantity, close it with your exit price, and see your realized results, best trades, the ones worth reviewing and your streak. Tracking places no order at your broker.
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Can I put my own ticker into Discount Options?The scanner covers its own curated list of liquid names. The Smart Alerts page keeps a private watchlist: tickers you add get priority tracking and entry and target alerts.
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What is the free Discount Options alert group and the Strategy Playbook?The free Discount Options Strategy Playbook teaches the manual process (trend context, fresh premium damage, liquidity, strike, time and theta), and the free Telegram group posts a limited selection of longer-dated observations from the scanner.
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Why does Discount Options pick those strikes and expirations?Near-the-money calls with enough time: far out-of-the-money contracts look cheap because they rarely pay, and short expirations leave no time to recover. Time-decay is weighed against the premium, not judged by the days left alone.
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Is a big drop on earnings a Discount Options buy?Not automatically. The scanner reads price data, not news: a drop on broken guidance or a lost contract can be justified. Check the catalyst yourself and wait for the stock to stabilize.
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Does Discount Options place trades for me?No. The scanner is decision support: it never places a brokerage order. You place the contract at your own broker, and can track it in My Trades.
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What do the Discount Options levels include?Free Trial, Discount Options (the scanner, the exact contracts, the Entry Zones and the decision levels, with in-app alerts) and Plus (the Live Radar, the War Room and the Telegram room). There is no auto-renewal.
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Where are Discount Options' past signals and results?The Opportunities page links to the permanent signal history, and each setup shows the best move it reached (Secure, Double or Press). Your own results are in My Trades.
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How much should I put into a Discount Options setup?Keep it defined: a discounted option can still go to zero. Each setup's Trade Playbook gives its own sizing note: smallest on short-dated plays, a real but defined position on swing setups, modestly more on position plays.
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Where is the Discount Options walkthrough, and how do I get help?The dashboard's Help page has the walkthrough video and the support contact. Or tell us below: a person answers by email.
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Still need a hand? Talk to a real person.Members: sign in and open Support, and Micheal and the team answer by email. Or email support@findbettertrades.com.
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