Your option idea should take one window, not four tabs
Find the contract, see exactly what it pays, stress it against time and volatility, then send it to your broker. Without retyping a single strike.
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The AAPL chain with two expiries, live greeks on both wings, and the strategy builder docked underneath. Everything on this page is one screenshot of the actual product.
You already know the trade. Finding it is the tedious bit.
Broker chain in one tab. Payoff calculator on some website. A screener that costs more than most platforms. And a spreadsheet where the actual thinking happens.
By the time you've moved the strike from tab three back into tab one, the quote has moved, your enthusiasm has drained, and you click the mid because you're tired of the process. That's not a discipline problem. It's a tooling problem.
Every question an option raises has an answer three clicks away, in a different application, priced off a different quote.
SabrTrader was built so that never happens. What does this cost? What's my breakeven? What if IV drops five points overnight? Is there a better strike two rows down? Every one of those is answered on the same screen, against the same live quote your order will be priced from.
Build a spread by clicking prices
Click an ask, you bought a leg. Click a bid, you sold one. That's the whole interaction.
No mental translation
The price you clicked is the price the ticket starts from. The strike you liked and the order you send are the same object, so nothing gets lost on the way.
Or start from a shape
Vertical, straddle, strangle, iron condor, iron butterfly, butterfly, calendar, diagonal, risk reversal. Pick one, it builds around the money, then you refine by clicking.
Invert flips everything
Long strangle to short strangle in one click, all legs at once. No rebuilding the position leg by leg because you changed your mind about direction.
Legging into a condor by hand is where retail option traders quietly give back the edge they worked to find. One leg fills, the market moves two ticks, the credit is gone.
SabrTrader sends the whole structure as a single net limit order. The venue fills it as a package or not at all. The number you saw on screen is the number you get.
And before you commit, the header already told you what the market thinks: composite call and put IV side by side, the 1 sigma range for the nearest expiry, the current skew. If your target sits outside that band, you're buying a tail. Better to know that before you pay for it.
Three sliders that decide whether the trade survives
The payoff diagram everyone posts online is the least interesting thing about a position. What matters is how it behaves on the way to expiry, and that's a surface, not a line.
- Date. Drag from now to expiry and watch the dotted curve fall toward the solid one. That's theta, visible. If the trade needs its move in the first three days, you'll see it in two seconds.
- Range. Widen or tighten the price axis so you're looking at a realistic move instead of a cartoon one.
- IV shift. Up to 50 points either way. The one nobody models and everyone gets hurt by. Right direction into earnings, money lost to the vol crush.
Calendars and diagonals get a separate front month slider, because that trade is specifically a bet on two expiries moving apart. Shifting both together would tell you nothing.
Four views sit on the same engine. Payoff for the shape. P&L table when a picture isn't precise enough. Skew, for finding the wing that's genuinely mispriced rather than the one that just looks cheap in dollars. Decay, for what the position is worth each day if the underlying does absolutely nothing.
Then hit Compare and settle the argument you're already having with yourself. Is the 380 call better than the 375/385 spread here? Build both, put them side by side, keep the one with the better shape for the move you actually expect.
Stop scrolling chains hoping something jumps out
A chain tells you what one contract costs. It can't tell you which of the eight thousand contracts across your watchlist is worth your attention this morning.
Point the screener at a list, pick a preset, hit Scan. Five presets ship with it, and each one is a complete filter set rather than a label: today's expiry, collect premium, bet on a direction, cheap long shots, this week's contracts.
Results come back ranked by a setup score, and you can see the working. Liquidity, preset fit, premium quality, each with its own points and a checklist of what passed.
A score you can't interrogate is a horoscope. This one tells you it scored 80 because liquidity was 27 out of 30.
Every preset is a starting point, not a cage. Move any slider and the chip clears, because the result is no longer that preset and pretending otherwise would be dishonest. Sort by probability of profit, return on risk, annualised return, breakeven distance, capital required, spread percentage. Screen spreads instead of single contracts in verticals mode. Save the screen, save the list, export the board.
"I think GOOGL goes up over the next four weeks"
Type that in. Get three concrete ways to express it, with the honest odds attached to each one.
Cheapest way in
Minimum capital, maximum leverage."Needs the move. Cheap to be wrong, easy to lose all of it."
Best odds
The highest probability expression of the same view."Wins most of the time, but check the worst case before you assume that means safe."
Capped both ways
Defined risk, both directions."Gives up the tail to know your worst case up front."
Those quotes aren't marketing copy. They're the actual text on screen in the product. A 5% chance of profit is displayed as 5%, right next to the +428% return that makes the trade tempting.
Pick one and you get the full economics plus a P&L surface: price on one axis, date on the other, green where you're up and red where you're not. It's the clearest answer there is to "how long do I have to be right".
Expiry day is a different game, so it gets a different default
The screener opens on the 0DTE preset. Not as a marketing gesture. Because that's honestly how it gets used.
Those last two floors are the whole point. On expiry day, liquidity is the trade. A contract with a wide spread and no volume hands back your entire theoretical edge on the way in and again on the way out, and you don't get a second chance to work the fill.
The rest of the stack runs on the same clock. The chain leads with today's expiry and keeps the grid to strikes that will actually move. The spread percentage column is sortable, so contracts that look attractive on paper but are untradeable in practice sink to the bottom. Drag the decay slider one notch and watch a long 0DTE straddle shed most of its extrinsic value. Useful thing to feel before you feel it with money.
Zero day options are the fastest way to lose money in a market that's otherwise going nowhere, and nothing here changes that. What the platform does is put the odds, the spread cost and the decay in front of you before you commit. So when you take a 5% chance of profit, you're doing it on purpose. That's a genuinely different position to be in than clicking a mid price on a broker chain.
Read chains from one place, trade at another
All seven accept multi-leg option orders as a single package. No account to open, no funds to move.
Greeks are entitlement dependent. Where a feed doesn't publish them, SabrTrader computes what it can and leaves the rest blank rather than inventing a number. The strategy templates still work either way, because they're built on strike offsets instead of delta targets.
See it on a symbol you actually trade
Download, connect your broker, open a chain. The screener will have a 0DTE list waiting before you've touched a single filter.
Download SabrTrader free Compare plansOptions are part of the platform. There is no separate module to buy.
The questions we get
Can I actually place orders, or is this analysis only?
You can trade. Stage up to four legs, set a net limit, choose the account, send. Schwab, Tastytrade, Interactive Brokers, Tradier, Saxo, Public.com and Alpaca all take it as one package, so the spread fills as a single order at the venue rather than leg by leg.
Which strategies can I build?
Nine templates in one click, each buildable in either direction with Invert: vertical, straddle, strangle, iron condor, iron butterfly, butterfly, calendar, diagonal, risk reversal. Beyond those, any combination up to four legs by clicking bids and asks in the chain.
How is the setup score calculated?
Liquidity, how well the contract fits the preset you chose, and premium quality relative to implied volatility. Each component is shown with its own points, so you can tell whether a high score came from genuine richness or just tight spreads. Nothing about it is a black box.
Can I model an IV crush before earnings?
Yes. The IV slider shifts volatility up to 50 points either way and redraws the position immediately. Calendars and diagonals get a separate front month slider, since those are specifically a bet on the two expiries diverging.
What does probability of profit actually mean here?
The likelihood, from current implied volatility and time to expiry, that the position finishes past its breakeven. An option market derived estimate, not a forecast. It sits next to return on risk on purpose: the trades with the best odds usually pay the least, and you should see both numbers in the same glance.
Do I need a separate options data subscription?
Depends on your connection. Several brokers deliver chains and greeks with the account. dxFeed, IQFeed and Databento carry option data under their own entitlements.
Is there an AI assistant in there?
Both the chain and the screener have a collapsible analyst panel that reads what's on your screen: the symbol, the expiry, your staged legs, the filters you set. So you can ask why one contract scored 80 and another 47 and get an answer about your board, not a textbook definition. It can stage legs for you, and it stops at the same four leg limit you do. The order still needs your review and your click. Bring your own LLM provider.
Where do options fit with the rest of the platform?
Same workspace as everything else. Read the underlying properly with volume profile and footprint, find the level, then express it in the chain. Fills land in the same performance analytics, which is how you find out whether your 0DTE scalping makes money or just feels productive.
Is options trading an add-on?
No. It's part of the platform, included in the plan. See pricing.