Identifying Overpriced Options Before Earnings
The problem is identifying overpriced options before earnings to avoid buying overpriced premiums. AI is used to find these overpriced options, allowing traders to bet on the implied volatility crush.
11 people in 13 posts across 1 source · demand low, pain low, competition moderate
The pain
shares of 13 quoted postsWhat goes wrong, and for whom
- Who
- 11 people, in AI
- What goes wrong
- Too expensive46% of posts
- Missing feature23% of posts
- Manual work23% of posts
- How bad
- 38% of posts are complaints
- Since
- 18 Feb 2026 → 22 Aug 2026
The opportunity
from the same postsWhether this pain leaves room for a product
- Demand
- 11 people raised it · momentum moderate (53)
- Looking for something else
- 15% want an alternative · 15% ask for a feature · 31% mention price
- What the numbers say
- 15% of posts are people looking for an alternative — the clearest sign there is room for a new product. Not shown by this data: whether they would pay.
The pain — what people say
Their asks, who is writing, and the posts themselves
People are asking for
In their own words — asks pulled from the evidence, most-repeated first
“(2) DeepCharts is a great platform but extremely overpriced.”
“Opaque "Black Box" Logic A recurring theme in r/algotrading is the lack of transparency regarding how the AI arrives at its confidence scores.”
What people were doing
Every post behind this page, by what its author was doing — and when each one was written
- Complaint538%
- Looking for an alternative215%
- Request215%
- About price431%
Sources
13 signals · 1 sources
Evidence
Raw public posts behind this opportunity — click through to the original
How I use AI to trade through earnings, 84.74% returns so far. TL;DR: I use AI to find overpriced options right before earnings, then trade a short straddle setup betting on the IV crush. I'm averaging \~84.74 % annual returns. Important: A lot of the idea for the strategy came from a youtuber called volatility vibes.…
Too expensiveManual work…mance-tracked, built from thousands of factors in a custom database. vii) A 100% free, start-to-finish, beginner-to-expert course packed with structured learning paths, interactive lessons + exercises, and a full glossary, that I wish I had when I first started. viii) Dedicated local-execution software for TopStep…
Wishes it existed…cks" (true conviction bets), you have to layer on strict filters: 1. IV Checks: To ensure you aren't buying overpriced premiums. 2. Trend Validation: Using SMA/EMA indicators to ensure you never trade against the macro trend. 3. AI Narrative: Checking for stock related events (earnings/catalysts) and the overall…
Too expensiveUsing a workaroundManual work…ns steeper than normal, statistically rare and more likely to revert. In simple terms: how outta pocket is the current pricing of the current chain compared to historical averages https://preview.redd.it/awwiwg09ocvf1.png?width=1296&format=png&auto=webp&s=a3bea4f68cee95f90bfce8590991858a04800741…
Wishes it existedToo expensive…st, I asked my agent when each goal was created. It said March 2026. Which would mean the December trades weren’t the bot — meaning most of that 40.2% was me, manually, badly, 5x leveraged on DOGE. I wrote the correction. I flagged the draft. I nearly published a much smaller number. Then I opened the actual version…
Manual work
The opportunity — market and score
Products already there, how the score moved, and what it is made of
Opportunity history
Every score change is stored as a snapshot — click a sub-score to overlay it
Why did it move?
Score unchanged at 26.5 · 23 Sept 2026, 20:00 → 21:15 UTC
How the score was measured39 measured values behind the seven sub-scores · each shows the value, then the points it earned out of 100Show ↓Hide ↑
Questions about this idea
- Is Identifying Overpriced Options Before Earnings a good startup idea?
- It has an Opportunity Score of 26.5, from 13 mentions by 11 different people across 1 sources. Demand is low (0/100), pain low (0/100) and competition moderate (40/100). This measures what people said, not what they paid for — test willingness to pay before building.
- How many people have this problem?
- 11 different people described it independently, in 13 mentions, the earliest from 18 Feb 2026 and the most recent from 22 Aug 2026. The quotes, with dates and links to the originals, are in the Evidence section.
- How crowded is this market?
- Measured competition is moderate (40/100). Low competition can be a real gap or simply thin data — look for competitors yourself before concluding either.
- Is demand for this growing?
- Current status: stable — mentioned at a steady rate. Momentum is 53/100, measured as how often it is mentioned recently compared with before.
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