Take control of your options with Value Line

Do you expect a stock to take off in the near future? Do you expect it to tank? Either way, use options to buy or sell the stock at a specific price by a specific date. The intuitive, easy-to-use Value Line Options Survey gives you the tools to search more than 600,000 options on stocks covering 90% of the market. Twice a day – at noon and at the close – the Options Survey publishes new evaluations and recommendations online so you can keep abreast of the fast-moving world of options.

Options Survey 
The Value Line Options Survey went online in 1995, evaluating about 10,000 options. We now cover virtually the entire listed equity options market — some 600,000 options. In our service, we evaluate and rank options for the five basic strategies; call buying, put buying, call writing, put writing and covered call writing. We also rank options for married put buying, which is a combination of owning the stock and hedging the position by purchasing a put.

Product Information
We base our option ranks on a weighted combination of the Value Line common stock ranks and our option model’s calculation of whether the options are underpriced (good for buying) or overpriced (good for writing).

A typical rank 1 call is a call with an underpriced ask price and an underlying common stock rank of 1. A typical rank 1 put is an underpriced put (again ask price) with an underlying common stock rank of 5.