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Options Profit & Loss Calculator
Free options profit and loss calculator. Build any position up to four legs and see max profit, max loss, every breakeven and a live payoff diagram before you risk anything.
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Credit Spread Calculator
Free credit spread calculator for put and call credit spreads. Enter both strikes and premiums for net credit, max loss, breakeven and return on risk.
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Debit Spread Calculator
Free debit spread calculator for call and put debit spreads. Enter both strikes and premiums for net debit, max profit, breakeven and reward-to-risk.
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Bullish
Long Call Calculator
Free long call calculator. Enter strike and premium to see your breakeven, maximum loss and unlimited upside on a live payoff diagram, before you buy.
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Bull Call Spread Calculator
Free bull call spread (debit spread) calculator. Enter both strikes and premiums to see max profit, max loss and breakeven on a live payoff diagram.
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Bull Put Spread Calculator
Free bull put spread (credit spread) calculator. Enter both strikes and premiums to see net credit, max loss, breakeven and return on risk.
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Cash-Secured Put Calculator
Free cash-secured put calculator. See your premium yield, effective purchase price if assigned, breakeven and annualised return on the cash held.
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Bearish
Long Put Calculator
Free long put calculator. Enter strike and premium to see breakeven, maximum loss and your profit as the underlying falls, on a live payoff diagram.
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Bear Put Spread Calculator
Free bear put spread (debit spread) calculator. Enter both strikes and premiums to see max profit, max loss and breakeven on a live payoff diagram.
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Bear Call Spread Calculator
Free bear call spread (credit spread) calculator. Enter both strikes and premiums to see net credit, max loss, breakeven and return on risk.
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Neutral / income
Iron Condor Calculator
Free iron condor calculator. Enter your four strikes and premiums to see max profit, max loss, both breakevens and a live payoff diagram — the same P/L engine GreeksView's trading desk uses.
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Iron Butterfly Calculator
Free iron butterfly calculator. Enter your strikes and premiums to see net credit, max loss, both breakevens and a live payoff diagram.
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Butterfly Spread Calculator
Free butterfly spread calculator. Enter three strikes and premiums to see max profit at the body, both breakevens and your capped risk.
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Covered Call Calculator
Free covered call calculator. Enter your cost basis, strike and premium to see static return, called-away return, breakeven and downside protection — with a live payoff diagram.
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Short Straddle Calculator
Free short straddle calculator. Enter the strike and both premiums to see total credit, both breakevens and the unlimited-risk profile.
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Short Strangle Calculator
Free short strangle calculator. Enter both strikes and premiums to see total credit, both breakevens, and the loss profile beyond them.
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Volatility
Long Straddle Calculator
Free long straddle calculator. Enter the strike and both premiums to see how far the underlying must move in either direction to profit.
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Long Strangle Calculator
Free long strangle calculator. Enter both strikes and premiums to see how far the underlying must move in either direction to profit.
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Reverse Iron Condor Calculator
Free reverse iron condor calculator. Enter your strikes and premiums to see net debit, max profit, both breakevens and a live payoff diagram.
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Reverse Iron Butterfly Calculator
Free reverse iron butterfly calculator. Enter your strikes and premiums to see net debit, max profit, both breakevens and a live payoff diagram.
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Time spreads
Calendar Spread Calculator
Free calendar spread calculator. Model what the back-month leg is still worth when the front expires, with max profit at the strike, your net debit and the volatility assumption made explicit.
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Diagonal Spread Calculator
Free diagonal spread calculator. Model the surviving back-month leg at front expiry across both strikes, with max profit, net debit and the volatility assumption made explicit.
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Protective
Working with the Alpaca API
Alpaca Options Chain API
How to fetch a complete options chain from the Alpaca API: which host serves contracts versus snapshots, the response envelopes that silently break loops, and how to read bid, ask, IV and open interest once you have it.
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Alpaca Options Greeks
Where delta, gamma, theta and vega live on an Alpaca options snapshot, what to do when the greeks block is missing, and how to solve implied volatility yourself without the numerical traps that produce a confident zero.
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Gamma Exposure (GEX) from an Alpaca Options Chain
Compute dealer gamma exposure from an Alpaca options chain: the formula, the dealer sign convention, why the gamma flip level is a price and not a magnitude, and the unit choice that makes published GEX figures differ by 100x.
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Alpaca Paper Trading for Options
Use Alpaca paper trading to test options analytics and order flow for free: which host paper keys talk to, what behaves identically to live, and the differences that will mislead you if you assume paper fills are real fills.
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Alpaca Historical Options Data
Fetch historical options data from Alpaca: why expired contracts need status=inactive, where the history actually begins, how sparse bars break backtests, and how to price a straddle as it stood before a past earnings date.
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Run these against live chains
GreeksView builds positions from real option chains with live Greeks and gamma exposure — in your browser, on your own broker keys.
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