Every print scored against real option prices.
722 closed trades from 2025-08-13 to 2026-06-11. Including the ones that didn't work.
By Strategy
Closed trades only. Strategies with N < 30 shown but flagged as preliminary.
Top winners & losers (last 60 days)
Showing the losers is the point. Cherry-picked track records lie.
How we measure this
Entry price = the option's print price the moment our scanner flagged it as unusual.
Exit price = first of: (a) intrinsic value at expiration close, (b) ThetaData EOD on the trading day OI dropped (recently_closed), or (c) latest EOD if still open.
Multi-leg strategies (spreads, straddles, condors) are grouped by symbol + expiration + entry day and scored on the group's net P&L.
Excluded from win rate: paired-and-cancel prints that never created an open position (369), single legs of multi-leg strategies (2), and contracts ThetaData has no settled price for (1253). Open positions are tracked separately, not counted in the headline win rate.
Stock-side P&L from assignment (cash-secured puts, covered calls, wheel) is not included in v1 — these rows reflect the option-leg outcome only.
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Unusual Option Trades — institutional flow, audited
Full overview of the pipeline, live stats, and the three deep-dive articles in one place.
How we score every unusual options trade — honestly
Five anti-patterns that make competitor track records meaningless, plus the line-by-line scoring rules behind ours.
Strategy detectionHow we decode what the whales are actually doing
22 implicit verticals (Bull/Bear Call/Put Spreads) reconstructed from per-leg prints — and 6-leg whale blocks worth knowing about.
Case studiesWhales knew first: three trades that moved before the news
ARM 170C $42→$95 in 4 days, NFLX bull spread, VRT +364.9% expired. With honest caveats on when this fails.
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Past performance is not indicative of future results. AInvest Options Pilot is a research and data product, not a registered investment adviser, broker-dealer, or financial planner; nothing on this page is investment advice or a recommendation to buy or sell any security. Options involve substantial risk of loss and are not suitable for all investors. Trade outcomes shown reflect mid-market option marks and exclude commissions, slippage, and taxes. Read the OCC's Characteristics and Risks of Standardized Options before trading.