Max Opportunity
Max Opportunity (shown as Max Opp and Max Opp %) is the headline number on every alert. It answers one question:
How far did this contract run at its best, after the alert went out?
It is the single most important measure of how much opportunity an alert presented.
How it's calculated
Max Opp % = (Highest price after the alert − Alerted price) ÷ Alerted price × 100
Example: an alert goes out with the contract at $3.50. Over the next two weeks the contract trades as high as $6.50, then settles back. The max opportunity is:
($6.50 − $3.50) ÷ $3.50 × 100 = +85.7%
So Max Opp shows $6.50 and Max Opp % shows +85.7%, no matter where the contract trades afterward.
Max Opp vs. Current — they're different on purpose
This is the one thing worth internalizing:
| What it answers | Behavior | |
|---|---|---|
| Max Opp % | How far did it run at its peak? | The all‑time high since the alert. Only ever goes up (or stays put). |
| Current % | Where is it right now? | Live price vs. the alerted price. Goes up and down all day. |
It's completely normal to see Max Opp +120% next to Current +35%. The contract ran to +120% at its peak, then pulled back to +35%. The max opportunity already happened — it's a record of the best the move offered.
The "Max Opp Date" — and how fast it moved
Next to the percentage, Max Opp Date shows when the peak happened and how many market days it took:
2/23 (5d)
That reads as: the peak was reached on February 23rd, 5 market days after the alert. ("Market days" counts only trading days — it skips weekends and holidays.) This tells you how quickly the opportunity developed.
Milestones
As a contract's max opportunity climbs, it passes milestones. In the Classic (spreadsheet) view, you'll see cells fill in green as each threshold is crossed:
+10% · +20% · +30% · +40% · +50% · +75% · +100%
Classic view turns the milestones into columns — each one fills green as an alert's max opportunity crosses that threshold, so you can scan how far every alert traveled.
These make it easy to scan, at a glance, how far each alert traveled.
If you've turned on notifications, you can be pinged as an alert crosses the major milestones:
+25% · +50% · +75% · +100% — and then every additional +100% on rare runaway moves.
What Max Opportunity is — and isn't
Max Opp is a measure of the opportunity an alert presented, not a profit you earned. It's the highest the contract traded after the alert — capturing that peak would have required selling at exactly the right moment, which no one does perfectly. Treat it as the ceiling of what the move offered, useful for judging the quality of an idea over time. It is not a record of realized gains. See the disclaimer.
Next
- The Alerts Table → — where Max Opp lives alongside every other column.
- Opportunity Calculator → — model hypothetical outcomes at any price and date.