c8alpha — the brief

The Brief — every edition.

Every market morning we read the settled options tape on ~700 liquid names and write down what was unusual: which names it was a well-paid day to sell puts on, where size actually concentrated, and what the tape is arguing about. One edition per session. Below is every one we have published — open any of them and read the whole thing.

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What every edition carries

Well-paid days to sell puts Names hitting one or more of three conditions — high vol, top of their own year, just after a drop — each validated independently on ten years of real option quotes. With an example contract and its bid.
Where size actually went Multi-day premium builds, unusual volume, and days where one strike and one expiry took most of the flow — the contract, the dollars, the lean.
Your own names, read nightly Give us a watchlist and every edition opens with your book — price, the week, where its premium sits against its own year, and whether today is one of the paid days.
What the tape is arguing about Who changed their mind on the Idea Scout board since the last edition, who doubled down, and where an investor's call and the options flow point the same way on the same name.

Every claim is labelled by how much we can honestly say about it — VALIDATED when it survived permutation testing and a walk-forward split, RECENT PATTERN and OBSERVATION when it did not. How we test claims →

Editions

29 published, newest first — each row shows what that session's read turned up.

Thursday, September 17 2026 19 paid put days · 4 unusual on the tape · 3 convergence  subscribers
Wednesday, September 16 2026 22 paid put days · 8 unusual on the tape
paid to sell puts on GS · MS · XOM · AMAT +18 more
Monday, September 14 2026 22 paid put days · 6 unusual on the tape · 7 convergence
paid to sell puts on XOM · IBM · AMAT · GE +18 more
Thursday, September 10 2026 18 paid put days · 2 unusual on the tape
paid to sell puts on ORCL · XOM · GS · NFLX +14 more
Wednesday, September 9 2026 20 paid put days · 5 unusual on the tape
paid to sell puts on NFLX · ORCL · IBM · GS +16 more
Tuesday, September 8 2026 24 paid put days · 4 unusual on the tape
paid to sell puts on ORCL · NFLX · PLTR · JNJ +20 more
Friday, September 4 2026 22 paid put days · 8 unusual on the tape · 6 convergence
paid to sell puts on ORCL · AAPL · CAT · AMAT +18 more
Thursday, September 3 2026 11 paid put days · 5 unusual on the tape · 1 convergence
paid to sell puts on ORCL · AMAT · TSLA · CAT +7 more
Wednesday, September 2 2026 14 paid put days · 8 unusual on the tape · 3 convergence
paid to sell puts on AVGO · ORCL · AMAT · AMD +10 more
Tuesday, September 1 2026 15 paid put days · 4 unusual on the tape · 3 convergence
paid to sell puts on AVGO · ORCL · GS · AMAT +11 more
Monday, August 31 2026 12 paid put days · 7 unusual on the tape · 2 convergence
paid to sell puts on AVGO · ORCL · AMAT · CAT +8 more
Friday, August 28 2026 10 paid put days · 8 unusual on the tape
paid to sell puts on AVGO · AMAT · ORCL · CAT +6 more
Thursday, August 27 2026 12 paid put days · 11 unusual on the tape
paid to sell puts on AVGO · ORCL · XOM · IBM +8 more
Wednesday, August 26 2026 15 paid put days · 6 unusual on the tape
paid to sell puts on AVGO · CSCO · ORCL · AMAT +11 more
Tuesday, August 25 2026 16 paid put days · 9 unusual on the tape · 4 convergence
paid to sell puts on AVGO · NVDA · ORCL · XOM +12 more
Monday, August 24 2026 17 paid put days · 10 unusual on the tape · 8 convergence
paid to sell puts on NVDA · ORCL · AMAT · CAT +13 more
Friday, August 21 2026 16 paid put days · 9 unusual on the tape · 8 convergence
paid to sell puts on NVDA · AVGO · AMD · INTC +12 more
Thursday, August 20 2026 17 paid put days · 7 unusual on the tape
paid to sell puts on ORCL · NVDA · CAT · INTC +13 more
Wednesday, August 19 2026 16 paid put days · 6 unusual on the tape
paid to sell puts on WMT · NVDA · ORCL · AMAT +12 more
Tuesday, August 18 2026 16 paid put days · 10 unusual on the tape · 5 convergence
paid to sell puts on WMT · NVDA · CSCO · AVGO +12 more
Monday, August 17 2026 19 paid put days · 7 unusual on the tape
paid to sell puts on WMT · CSCO · AVGO · AMAT +15 more
Friday, August 14 2026 14 paid put days · 5 unusual on the tape · 8 convergence
paid to sell puts on HD · WMT · CSCO · AMAT +10 more
Thursday, August 13 2026 16 paid put days · 8 unusual on the tape
paid to sell puts on WMT · HD · CSCO · VZ +12 more
Wednesday, August 12 2026 16 paid put days · 5 unusual on the tape
paid to sell puts on CSCO · HD · WMT · AMAT +12 more
Tuesday, August 11 2026 17 paid put days · 10 unusual on the tape
paid to sell puts on CSCO · HD · WMT · AMAT +13 more
Monday, August 10 2026 19 paid put days · 10 unusual on the tape
paid to sell puts on HD · CSCO · WMT · AMAT +15 more
Friday, August 7 2026 17 paid put days · 12 unusual on the tape
paid to sell puts on CSCO · AMAT · INTC · AMD +13 more
Thursday, August 6 2026 21 paid put days · 9 unusual on the tape
paid to sell puts on HD · CSCO · AMAT · WMT +17 more
Wednesday, August 5 2026 22 paid put days · 13 unusual on the tape
paid to sell puts on HD · CSCO · AMAT · MU +18 more

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