Options trading

Options are a flexible investment tool that can help you take advantage of any market condition to help achieve your investment goals.


Analyze and trade like a pro

From idea to implementation, our wide selection of industry-leading tools and analysis will help you find, analyze, and implement successful options trades.

Active Trader Pro®

Active Trader Pro provides an in-depth suite of options tools to monitor market trends, fine-tune strategies, and execute simple and complex options trades.


  • Probability and Profit and Loss Calculators let you easily analyze and evaluate your trading ideas or existing positions.3
  • Key Statistics and Today's Biggest Trades help you analyze market sentiment.
  • Strategy Ideas help you determine which strike price and expiration have performed best over the previous 2 years for covered call and cash-secured put strategies.

Trading on Fidelity.com


Our website has in-depth options research, analytics, and idea generation tools integrated with our easy-to-use trading ticket.


  • Quickly evaluate current market conditions with our Key Statistics.
  • Scan the market for unique trading opportunities using prebuilt or custom Market Scanners.
  • Validate your strategy with the Probability and Profit and Loss Calculators.
  • Trade by simply linking to a prefilled trade ticket to review and submit your single or multi-leg options trade.

Market Scanner


Scan the market using preset or custom filters to find helpful trading ideas. Search by price movement, volatility, order flow, and more.

Options Research


Access top research by navigating between the Strategy Evaluator, probability charts, and interactive profit and loss models.

Strategy Ideas


Generate options trading ideas by selecting a specific options strategy or by filtering strategies based on market sentiment, profit, and risk potential.

Profit and Loss Calculator


Model options strategies, see profit and loss potential, or change price or days to expiration. You can also trade directly from the calculator.

Argus Options Report


Get the latest ideas or filter by days to expiration, in or out of the money strikes, risk-return, and more.

Strategy Evaluator


Evaluate single and multi-leg opportunities based on your market sentiment.

Options Strategy Guide


The Options Strategy Guide is an educational tool that can help you learn about a variety of options strategies. The guide includes explanations of each strategy: max profit, max risk, profit/loss diagrams, and much more. You can filter by outlook, profit, and risk, making it easier to find the strategies you're interested in.


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If you have questions about trading options, call 800-564-0211