Strategy finder
Five questions narrow all 52 documented strategies to a shortlist worth reading. It runs entirely in your browser, and it will not tell you what to trade.
What this does: the finder filters the same 52-strategy dataset every page on this site is generated from, using your market view, whether you require the loss to be capped by the position's structure, your read on implied volatility, your horizon and your capital. It returns a ranked shortlist of pages to read. It is not a recommendation engine, and a strategy appearing here says nothing about whether it suits you.
How the shortlist is built
Direction is disqualifying
A bearish structure never appears under a bullish view. Direction-agnostic strategies — the futures approaches — score lower but still surface, because they express no prior view.
A risk cap is binding
If you ask for the loss to be capped by the position's own structure, undefined-risk strategies are removed entirely rather than ranked below. A cap is not a preference.
Everything else is scored
Volatility regime, horizon and capital add weight rather than filter, so a near miss still appears. An empty result is a real answer: it usually means your view and your risk limit contradict each other.
Never invented
Every strategy the finder can return has a full page, an original payoff diagram and figures computed by the same pricing engine. The finder cannot surface something that does not exist.
Prefer to read rather than answer questions?
The same 52 strategies are sliced eight different ways in the strategy library — by market direction, volatility regime, time horizon, risk appetite and capital requirement — plus a one-page cheat sheet, a Greek-sign matrix and a static decision tree. Once you have a shortlist, plot it in the payoff calculator.