Today's List
Every stock ranked by how far it is priced to move against its own norm
What Today’s list is
Today’s list is the page to open before the market opens. It ranks every optionable stock by its repricing: how far the move the options market prices for the next session sits from the move that stock is usually priced for.
A stock priced to move twice its usual amount is one the market has decided is about to do something—an earnings report, a binary event, a stock that has started to trend. That is where a day trader’s attention pays, whichever way it goes. Today’s list is an attention list, not a buy list: it tells you where the market expects movement, never which way.
Open it: choose Today’s list in the sidebar (under Today), or go to optionomics.ai/today.
Availability: Open to everyone. Without a plan, or without an account, the list shows the previous trading day, with a notice saying so. The Trader plan and higher show today’s session. The same list is available to AI clients through the session_list tool on the MCP Server, including with a free key.
How repricing is measured
For each stock, Optionomics takes the calibrated expected move for the next session from that day’s option chain—the same expected move shown on the stock page—and divides it by the median of the same figure over the stock’s previous 20 sessions.
- 1.00× means the stock is priced to move exactly as much as it usually is.
- 2.00× means it is priced to move twice its norm.
- Below 1.00× means the market expects less movement than usual.
A stock needs at least ten prior sessions behind the median to be ranked. The expected move itself is calibrated: in eight held-out years, the realised move was 1.00–1.05 times the forecast. Repricing is a reading about size, the one thing the options market’s prices were found to answer.
The market strip
Above the table, three cards show SPY, QQQ, and IWM: each fund’s priced move for the next session and its price, with its own repricing as the large figure. They frame the list—if the whole market is priced for a big day, a stock’s high repricing means less. Funds and indexes are kept out of the ranked table itself, because their move is the market’s, not a single company’s.
The table
The table is titled Ranked by repricing, with the date of the chain it was read from. Columns:
| Column | What it shows |
|---|---|
| # | The stock’s rank |
| Symbol | The ticker, which opens the stock page, with the company name beneath |
| Spot | The stock price the move is measured from |
| Priced move | The next session’s expected move in percent and in dollars, e.g. ±3.4% ±$6.10 |
| Repricing | The priced move divided by the stock’s 20-session median, e.g. 2.31× |
| 2 in 3 closes | The 68% range: the low and high that two in three closes land between |
| Earnings | An Earnings badge when a report falls inside the next session; otherwise “reports in N sessions” when one is due within five sessions |
| $ volume, 20d | The average daily dollar volume over the last 20 sessions |
| Chain | The date of the chain the row was read from |
Who is on the list
Stocks only—no ETFs or indexes—priced at $5 or more and averaging at least $20 million of daily dollar volume over the window. A chain more than ten days old is not used.
Filters
At the top right of the table:
- Reports tomorrow — keep only stocks that report earnings within one session. Useful the evening before a busy earnings day. If nothing on the list reports that soon, the table says so.
- Top 25 / Top 50 / Top 100 — how many ranked rows to show (25 by default).
How to use it
- Open the list before the open and scan the top of the table: these are the names the market has repriced most.
- Check the Earnings column—a high repricing on a report day is expected; a high repricing without one is the more unusual reading.
- Click a symbol to open its stock page, where the Session Brief adds the odds of reaching the priced move and the cost of trading it.
- Add the names you will trade to a watchlist. The starter alerts watch your watchlists and tell you when a name touches the edge of its priced move.
Important context
- Nothing on this page says which way. A stock priced to move a lot can move a lot in either direction.
- A priced move is the market’s expectation, not a promise; on any session the realised move can be smaller or larger.
- The 68% range is about close-to-close moves. How often a session only touches an edge is shown on the stock page’s odds card and on the Calibration page.
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