The Alerts Table
The home page of the tracker is one big, sortable table — every alert, one per row, with its live performance. This page explains every column so no number is a mystery.
Options is the default lens. It keeps contract performance, Max Opp, current value, Score, Status, and time to expiration together in one row.
Use Options | Stock to change the performance lens. When Options is selected, Modern view | Classic view changes the table layout. On phones, either lens becomes a stack of cards with fields matched to that lens. See Filters, Views & Analytics.
Where the other buttons went. The ⋯ button at the right of the alerts header holds View My Alerts and Export CSV — plus the view switch on a phone. They used to sit on the header itself, which took up so much of a phone screen that barely one alert fitted underneath it.
The old Columns picker is gone. Every column is shown, and Export CSV now includes them all on every device rather than following what was on screen.
Options column reference
Because Options is the default lens, its contract columns come first:
| Column | What it shows | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Ticker | The stock symbol (e.g. AAPL) | The underlying company the option is on. |
| Alerted | A date (e.g. 2/16) | The day the alert was published to members. |
| Type | CALL or PUT | A call profits if the stock goes up; a put profits if it goes down. See the Glossary. |
| Strike | A price (e.g. $175.00) | The strike price of the contract — the price level the option is built around. |
| Expiration | A date plus a time bar (e.g. 3/21 and 7d) | The day the contract expires, and how much of its original timeframe is left. The bar shrinks as expiration approaches — green means plenty of time, amber getting close, red expiring soon. The cell is tinted too: green over 30 days out, amber 22–30 days, red 21 days or fewer. |
| Alerted At | A price (e.g. $3.50) | The contract's price at the moment of the alert. This is the baseline every performance number is measured from. May show a small adj tag — see Entry states below. |
| Max Opp | A price (e.g. $6.50) | The contract's peak price since the alert, measured from real trades so one‑off outlier prints don't count — see Max Opportunity. |
| Max Opp % | A percentage plus a date (e.g. +85.7% over 2/23 (5d)) | The max opportunity: how far the contract ran from the alerted price to its peak. Underneath it, the date that peak happened and which market day of the alert's life it was (the alert day counts as day 1, so a same‑day peak shows 1d). Dates from a previous year carry the year: 12/2/25. The cell shades deeper green the bigger the percentage — see Reading the colours below. Hover the cell for the full date. |
| Current | A price (e.g. $4.20) or — | What the contract is worth right now. Shows — once the contract has expired. |
| Current % | A percentage (e.g. +20.0%) | Where the contract stands right now versus the alerted price. |
| Score | A number 0–100 | A live quality score for the alert, recalculated as the trade plays out — see How the Score works below. Higher = a healthier trade. Color‑coded green (high) to red (low). |
| Status | A badge (e.g. Working) | A live read on the thesis health, based on where the stock is trading versus its key levels. Full list on Alert Statuses. |
| Actions | ⭐ and ➔ | Star adds the alert to My Alerts; the arrow opens the full detail page. |
Reading the colours
Two columns are shaded so you can find what matters without reading every row.
Max Opp % gets greener the bigger it is:
| Max Opp % | Shade |
|---|---|
| Under +10% | No colour |
| +10% to +24% | Faintest green |
| +25% to +49% | Light green |
| +50% to +99% | Green |
| +100% to +149% | Deeper green |
| +150% to +299% | Deeper still |
| +300% and up | Deepest green |
Expiration is shaded by how much time is left:
| Time left | Shade |
|---|---|
| More than 30 days | Green |
| 22 to 30 days | Amber |
| 21 days or fewer | Red |
| Already expired | Grey |
Amber is a narrow warning band on purpose. It means the Near Expiration badge is about to appear, not that an alert is old — a freshly published 45‑day contract is green on day one.
These cutoffs are fixed, not ranked against the other rows. A +300% alert is the deepest green whether it is the only alert on screen or one of two hundred, so a colour always means the same thing. Filtering the table never changes them.
Stock view shades the same way, on its own scale. Max Stock Opp and the move under Now get greener the further the stock has run in the plan's favour — but because stock moves are smaller than option moves, the bands are smaller too:
| Favourable stock move | Shade |
|---|---|
| Under +1% | No colour |
| +1% to +2.4% | Faintest green |
| +2.5% to +4.9% | Light green |
| +5% to +7.9% | Green |
| +8% to +11.9% | Deeper green |
| +12% to +17.9% | Deeper still |
| +18% and up | Deepest green |
Only favourable moves shade. A move against the plan keeps its red number and no colour, so green always means the stock is going the right way.
Max Opp vs. Current — the key distinction
Two columns trip people up at first, so it's worth being clear:
- Max Opp % is the best the contract ever did after the alert — its peak. It already happened and never goes down.
- Current % is where the contract is right now — it moves up and down all day.
A contract can show Max Opp +85% while Current sits at +20%. That's normal: it means the contract ran to +85% at its peak, then pulled back to +20%. Neither number is "wrong" — they answer different questions ("how far did it go?" vs. "where is it now?"). See Max Opportunity for the full breakdown.
How the Score works
The Score is not a rating the analyst types in — it's a live 0–100 health score the tracker recalculates automatically as the trade evolves. Every alert starts at a neutral 50 and the score moves from there:
What pushes it up:
- Profit milestones hit — each contract target reached (+10%, +25%, +50%, and beyond) adds to the score. These are the biggest drivers.
- Current P/L — the further the contract is in the green right now, the higher the score.
- Holding key levels — the stock respecting the support (calls) or resistance (puts) the thesis is built on.
- Stock price targets reached — the underlying hitting the levels called out in the alert.
What pulls it down:
- Negative P/L — the deeper the contract is in the red, the lower the score.
- Stop level breached — the stock breaking through the alert's stop level is the single biggest penalty.
- Time spent underwater — multiple days trading on the wrong side of the alert zone.
Because it updates with the market, the score you see today can differ from the score at publish time — a trade that starts strong and then breaks its levels will watch its score fall, and a slow starter that reclaims its zone and hits targets will climb.
As a rough guide: 80+ is a strong, working trade, 65–79 is good, around 50 is neutral, 35–49 warrants caution, and below 35 means the trade is at risk.
Entry states: pending & adj
Before performance can be tracked, the alerted price has to actually be reachable in the market. An alert can be in one of three entry states:
| State | What you see | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Pending | "Awaiting bid" in place of the % numbers | The alerted price hasn't traded yet, so tracking hasn't started. The performance columns stay blank until it does. |
| Adjusted | An adj tag on the Alerted At price | The originally alerted price never filled, so tracking was moved to the closest price that actually traded. The numbers are honest — they measure from a price you could really have gotten. |
| Normal | A plain price, no tag | The alerted price traded and tracking started immediately. |
This keeps the tracker honest. If a contract's quoted price never actually traded, counting a move from it would inflate the results. Pending/adjusted states make sure every percentage is measured from a price the market really offered.
Reading a row at a glance
A typical row reads like a sentence:
NVDA · CALL · $130 strike · exp 3/21 — alerted at $4.10, ran to $7.95 (+93.9%) on 2/27 (4d), now $6.20 (+51.2%), status Working, 9d left.
Translation: a bullish NVDA call alerted at $4.10 peaked at +93.9% on its fourth market day, is currently up about 51%, the thesis is progressing as planned, and there are nine days until expiration.
On a phone
The same alert becomes a card. The ticker, direction, current move, Score and ⭐ sit on the top line; the strike and expiration sit under it; then a three-number strip of Alerted, Max and Current; then Status and the time-left bar.
The date the alert went out sits directly under the Alerted price, so you can tell a fresh idea from an older one without opening it. It shows as Aug 1 for alerts from this year and Aug 1, 25 for older ones. On an adjusted alert the strip says Tracked instead of Alerted, but the date is still the day the alert was published — that never changes.
Options view vs. Stock view
Once the Options lens is clear, the Stock lens lets you evaluate the underlying plan separately from its contract. Every alert starts with a direction, an underlying price, an invalidation level, and targets; the Options | Stock toggle lets you read that same alert through either lens:
- Options (the default) — strike, expiration and time left, contract price, contract opportunity, Score, and Status.
- Stock — the underlying move from its own Alerted At baseline, the best favorable stock move, progress through the published targets, distance to invalidation, and the same Status shown in Options.
Stock view keeps the underlying idea separate from the option contract and puts its performance, published levels, and plan health in one row.
| Column | What it shows | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Alerted At | A price (e.g. $142.50) | The best available tracked stock baseline for the alert. The tracker uses the first available minute bar at or after the alert when possible; if that snapshot is unavailable, it may use the session close as a fallback. |
| Now | The current price and its move from Alerted At (e.g. $136.50 ↓4.2%) | The arrow and percentage report the stock's actual direction. Color shows whether that move favors the idea: a drop is green for a bearish idea and red for a bullish one. |
| Max Stock Opp | The best favorable stock move since the alert | The largest underlying-stock opportunity that showed up after the alert, measured from Alerted At. For bullish ideas it uses the best post-alert high; for bearish ideas it uses the best post-alert low. It records opportunity, not a member's realized result. |
| Target Progress | Targets reached and the next published target | The compact summary shows how many plan targets have been reached and how far away the next target is. On desktop, hover over the cell to see the full ladder with reached levels checked off; on mobile, open the alert for the complete level detail. |
| Invalidation | The published level and its distance from the current price | A direct distance read showing how much room remains or how far price has moved past the level. Status is broader and may use additional levels, history, and confirmation buffers, so its badge does not necessarily change when this displayed level is first touched. |
| Status | The alert's current status badge | The same thesis-health Status shown in Options view, displayed here alongside the stock-performance data. Switching lenses does not recalculate or reinterpret it. See Alert Statuses. |
| Actions | ⭐ and ➔ | Star adds the alert to My Alerts; the arrow opens the full detail page. |
Max Stock Opp and Now answer different questions. Max Stock Opp shows the best favorable move that appeared at any point after the alert and does not shrink after a pullback. Now shows the stock's live price and move at this moment. Likewise, reached targets stay checked in Target Progress even if the stock later moves back through them.
The tracker handles the alert day conservatively: the current post-alert quote counts, but it does not credit the session's stored daily high or low because that extreme may have happened before the alert was published. Recorded daily extremes begin with the next market session rather than risk overstating the opportunity.
There is no time-left bar in the Stock view — that countdown belongs to the option contract. If a stock baseline has not populated yet, the row says Baseline pending instead of presenting incomplete stock-performance numbers.
The default table shows alerts only while the attached contract is active. If you turn on Show Expired, the Stock view preserves the stock-performance history recorded through that lifecycle. Now is the last tracked stock snapshot rather than post-expiration live monitoring, and Status is blank after expiration just as it is in Options view.
On phones, choosing Stock changes the alert cards too. Each card keeps the same stock-focused story — Alerted At, Now, Max Stock Opp, Target Progress, and Invalidation distance — alongside the alert's shared Status.
Export CSV follows the selected lens as well. In Stock view it includes the underlying move, max opportunity, target progress, invalidation distance, the displayed Status, and whether stock tracking is active or ended rather than the option-contract performance columns.
The Stock view describes the price opportunity that appeared after an alert. It does not assume that a member acted at the alerted price, captured a target, or realized the maximum move. Not every idea reaches a target, and some draw down before moving favorably.
The toggle exists because a table row has limited width. Open any alert's detail page and you get both lenses at once — an Option Contract band beside a Stock Performance band carrying these same stock numbers. The alert's Status is shared there too.
Next
- Alert Statuses → — every badge a row can show.
- Max Opportunity → — the headline number, in depth.
- Filters, Views & Analytics → — narrow the table down and read the dashboard stats.