If you’ve been exploring ways to take your options trading to the next level, the OptionsPlay Add-On for StockCharts is the single most impactful upgrade you can make. And now, it’s even better.
Courtesy of a big and highly-anticipated update, the Strategy Center within the OptionsPlay Add-On now runs directly on your ChartLists—allowing you to discover optimal Covered Calls, Short Puts, Debit and Credit Spreads, and Iron Condors on the stocks you follow or scan for. This new feature turns OptionsPlay into a fully personalized strategy engine, delivering the options ideas you need, when you need them.
What Makes the OptionsPlay Add-On So Powerful?
Whether you’re a beginner looking for guided trade setups or a seasoned options trader managing multiple strategies, the OptionsPlay Add-On brings you three core advantages:
1. Trade the Highest Potential Setups.
Every list of stocks is analyzed in real time to identify the highest yielding strategy—whether income-oriented like a Covered Call or directional like a Debit Spread—complete with strategy scores, max gain/loss, break-even points, and probability of success, so you are only trading the highest potential setups.
2. Find New Ideas & Generate Ideas from your Lists.
Up until now, users have relied on daily trade ideas curated by the OptionsPlay team. These are still available—and still quite valuable. But now, you can apply the same strategy engine to your own ChartLists: your holdings, your watchlists, and your scans.
This means you can:
- Identify the highest-yielding Covered Calls on the stocks you own
- Trade the best-scoring strategies on the technical breakouts you’re tracking
- Get paid the largest discounts to buy the stocks you love with Short Puts
All ranked—automatically.
3. Fully Personalized to You.
You can customize your options strategies for:
- Preferred Option Strategy & Outlook
- Days to expiration
- Strike Selection
- Risk tolerance
With one click, OptionsPlay surfaces only the trades that fit your profile in under two seconds, so you can make decisions faster and with full confidence.
Why the ChartList Integration Changes Everything
Your ChartLists represent your research, your insights, and your trading edge. Now, instead of scanning for the best options strategies on our list of ideas, you can apply them directly to the stocks you’ve chosen to follow.
This is especially powerful if you:
- Manage a long-term portfolio and want to generate income
- Actively trade sectors, earnings setups, or technical breakouts
- Prefer scanning based on technical criteria before looking at the options chain
With this new integration, you can:
- Launch the Strategy Center
- Select Any ChartList
- Instantly see top-ranked strategies for each stock
- Customize based on your preferences
- Analyze and trade immediately
Pro Tip – Maximize StockCharts & OptionsPlay Scanning
- Create a Technical Scan using StockChart’s Advanced Scan Workbench
- Save your Scan Results to a ChartList or Schedule your Scan to replace your ChartList
- Open the OptionsPlay Strategy Center
- Select Your ChartList and see the best options strategies on your Scan Results
- Trade your best technical setups with the highest yielding options strategies
Final Thoughts
OptionsPlay was already a powerful companion for options traders on StockCharts. But this latest update transforms it into something even more valuable—a personalized trading assistant that works with your existing workflow.
Whether you’re trading for income, growth, or hedging risk, the OptionsPlay Add-On gives you the structure, confidence, and efficiency to act decisively.
Add the OptionsPlay Add-On to your StockCharts account todayand unlock the power of strategy-driven trading on your terms.