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Plain-word guides to the strategies and terms behind OpScout's alerts, and to how OpScout checks the conditions you set. They explain; they do not recommend.

• What Is a Covered Call, and What Can an Alert Check for You?

  A covered call explained in plain words: the shares, the call, the premium and the trade-offs, and the conditions a Covered Call alert can check.

• What Is a Cash-Secured Put, and How Does an Alert for One Work?

  A cash-secured put explained in plain words: the put, the cash it secures, assignment and the trade-offs, and what a Cash-Secured Put alert checks.

• Annualized Return on an Option Premium: How It Is Calculated

  How OpScout turns an option's bid into a return and an annualized return for covered calls and cash-secured puts, and what the figure leaves out.

• Strike, Days to Expiry and Out of the Money, in Plain Words

  What an option's strike, expiration, days to expiry and out-of-the-money distance mean, and how an OpScout options Monitor lets you set each one.

• Price Alerts vs Market Cap Alerts: When Each One Fits

  The difference between a stock price alert and a market cap alert, what each measures, and how OpScout checks both during the U.S. trading session.

• Covered Call Screener vs Covered Call Alerts: What Is the Difference?

  A screener shows the contracts that match your filters right now; an alert keeps checking your rules and tells you when one matches. When each helps.

• Getting Stock and Options Alerts on WhatsApp

  How to receive OpScout's stock price, market cap and options alerts on WhatsApp: linking your number, choosing it per alert, message limits and delays.

• Using Claude with OpScout: Target Entry Monitors Through MCP

  How the OpScout connector lets Claude create, check, update and remove Target Entry Monitors you approve, what a check does, and where the limits are.

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