Frequently asked questions

OpScout is an alerts service for investors who already know the conditions they care about. You set price, market cap, Covered Call, Cash-Secured Put and Target Entry conditions on the stocks you choose. OpScout checks them on a schedule during the U.S. trading session and notifies you when they are met.

No. OpScout provides informational alerts based on conditions you configure. It does not provide investment advice or recommendations, and an Alert is not a signal to buy, sell or hold anything. When several contracts match, the one an Alert names is simply first by a published ordering rule. Risk Disclosure.

No. OpScout does not provide brokerage services, custody or trade execution, and it does not connect to your brokerage account. Any trade is yours to place, with your broker.

OpScout evaluates Monitors during the U.S. regular trading session, and its options Monitors cover U.S.-listed options. Pre-market, after-hours and overnight trading are not covered. Market sessions.

Yes. With the OpScout connector, Claude can create, list, check, update and remove Target Entry Monitors once you have reviewed and approved them. OpScout for Claude.

In cycles about every 15 minutes during the U.S. regular trading session: the first at the 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time open, the last at 3:45 p.m. (12:45 p.m. on early-close days). No cycles run outside the session. A Monitor set to Once is checked in every cycle until it is met; one set to Repeat is checked again when its interval has passed. When Monitors are evaluated.

OpScout checks on a schedule, not continuously, so a condition that is met only between two checks may never be detected. It also uses only the regular-session price: a level crossed only before the open or after the close does not produce an Alert unless it is still crossed when the session opens.

No. A new or changed Monitor is first checked in the next cycle or, while the session is closed, in the first cycle after it opens. The app shows when that first check is due.

At the bid. The bid is divided by the capital, which is the stock price less the bid for a Covered Call and the strike less the bid for a Cash-Secured Put, then multiplied by 365 and divided by the days to expiration. It is simple, not compounded, and leaves out commissions, fees, taxes and dividends. Annualized return, explained.

It looks for a way to own a stock at or below a price you set while earning at least a return you set: by selling a put, or by buying the shares and selling a call (a buy-write). Target Entry Monitors.

From licensed third-party market data providers. Some values are reported by the data source, some are calculated by it, and some are computed by OpScout; the Methodology labels each one. Where values come from.

Through the delivery channels you choose for each alert in the app. Available channels may include push notifications, WhatsApp and Discord. WhatsApp is optional. How WhatsApp alerts work.

Yes. Each account can receive up to 300 WhatsApp messages a month; on the weekly plan, up to 30 for each paid week. Settings shows how much is used. If 30 Alerts are queued for your account within an hour, your Notifications pause until you resume them in the app. Notification limits.

Yes. A Notification is sent after its Alert is recorded, failed attempts may be retried over a period of hours, and delivery time depends on the channel, the network and your device. A Notification for an Alert recorded during the session may arrive after the session has closed.

OpScout is a subscription with weekly, monthly and annual plans. Each plan's price, and how it renews, is shown before you subscribe: in the app, where Apple handles the payment, or on OpScout's web subscription page (U.S. only), where Stripe handles it.

We may offer new subscribers a reduced price for their first period, for example a lower price for the first week of the weekly plan. The offer, and the regular price the plan renews at, are shown before you subscribe. Introductory offers.

You can cancel at any time; subscriptions renew automatically until you do. To avoid a renewal, cancel a web subscription before the renewal date shown in My subscription on the web subscription page, and an App Store subscription in your Apple Account's subscription settings, within the time Apple requires. Deleting your OpScout account does not cancel an App Store subscription. Support.

From Settings in the OpScout app. Deletion is permanent. Data deletion.