Real-time portfolio risk monitor

Know your risk in dollars and dates.

ObviousTrades connects to your brokers read-only and watches your whole options book: stress grids across price, vol and time, PoP and P50 on every spread, a wheel ledger whose cost basis survives assignment, and alerts in plain English.

FREE IN BETA No card required. Connect a broker read-only and see your book in minutes.

Read-only connection Encrypted at rest Continuous analysis

Vega exposure up 22%

Short vol grew after your NVDA condor filled. Hedge menu ready.

Connect your brokerage read-only via SnapTrade

Interactive Brokers Schwab Tastytrade Tradier Robinhood Webull and more

Broker connectivity is provided through SnapTrade; availability varies by broker and region.

The problem

Your real risk lives between five open tabs, and it moves while you're not looking.

Greeks in one window, an options chain in another, a P&L blotter, an earnings calendar, a vol screener. By the time you've stitched them together, the position has already changed. ObviousTrades reads your whole book and does that math continuously, so the number in front of you is the number that's true right now.

What you see

Every angle of book risk, quantified.

Not more charts. Answers. Each metric is aggregated across your entire book and every connected broker.

01 Exposure & scenarios

Net portfolio greeks

Delta, gamma, theta, vega, and beta-weighted SPY delta aggregated across every broker and every account, IRA to margin: one honest number per greek, with per-account drill-down.

Stress grids: price × vol × time

Your whole book repriced across market moves, volatility shifts, and days forward: a P&L curve, a scenario heatmap, and historical crash replays, with the worst cell sized against your margin headroom.

full-book reprice, beta-weighted per name, not a delta estimate

Overnight-gap exposure

See what an unhedged gap does to your book after the close, so a surprise open isn't the first time you find out.

sized from each name's historical gap distribution

Liquidation horizon

How far a stressed move sits from a forced liquidation, before the morning it happens. Equity and the maintenance requirement are crossed together, because in a vol spike the cushion collapses from both sides at once.

requirement expansion modeled against your broker's own maintenance figure

02 What institutions see, and you could not

What you actually own

Your funds unpacked into the companies inside them, added to the names you hold directly. Hold an index fund and sell puts on one of its largest constituents and you own that company twice, in the same direction, while your position list shows two unrelated lines.

SEC fund filings, public record; every weight carries the date it was reported

Portfolio margin, modeled

Risk-based margin estimated the way a clearing house does it: your whole position in one name revalued across a grid of price and volatility moves, charged at the worst outcome. Hedges reduce the number here, because they are valued in the same scenario as the risk they offset.

an estimate, not your broker's figure; groups are summed without offset, so it reads high rather than low

A second opinion on every mark

Your broker's price checked against an independent source and against our own pricing engine, with the gap shown in dollars on your actual size. Stale marks on thin contracts stop being invisible.

a leg with no genuinely independent source is reported as unverified, never as agreeing

Where the bad days start

Real trading days replayed through your current book, each name moving by what it actually did that day. You get the level where the worst days begin and, beside it, the average loss once you are past that level. The second number is the one worth reading.

historical replay, so correlations are inherited rather than assumed; withheld entirely when the sample is too thin to mean anything

03 The wheel, assignment & daily management

Wheel campaign ledger

Your broker resets your cost basis at assignment. We never do. Every wheel is threaded from first put through assignment, covered calls, and called away as one campaign, with a live true breakeven and per-cycle returns.

economic basis shown beside your broker's number

Morning management queue

One ranked list of what needs attention today: positions at 50% of max profit, inside 21 DTE, short strikes breached, and whether a roll for credit is even there, checked against live chains.

Assignment radar & triage

Flags short options at risk of early exercise before ex-dividend or expiry, and when assignment does happen, a triage card explains the settlement math before the scary balance does.

Premium richness vs your book

Probability of profit and P50 on every spread, plus a watchlist fit board: where implied vol is rich by that name's own history, joined against the exposure you already carry.

Sector-rotation read

Groups your book by sector and reads the tilt (defensive, cyclical, or growth), so you see where exposure is concentrated.

weighted by delta exposure, not position count

04 Attribution, events & execution

P&L attribution by greek

Multi-day breakdown of what actually made and lost money (direction, decay, or vol) instead of one blended line.

Event radar

Earnings, ex-dividend, OPEX, and expirations for your tickers, with collision warnings when they land on the same day.

Exit & hedge costs

Exit-liquidity cost, a hedge-cost menu, and a pre-trade impact check: the price of getting out, priced before you need it.

Guardrails

Your own survival rules, watched 24/5: max per ticker, max buying power deployed, no undefined risk, no new positions into earnings. You set the limits; we report the moment a fact crosses one.

What-if & roll simulator

Models a roll or a new position before it is placed: net greeks before and after, margin impact, and payoff curves at expiry and at today's date, with true cost basis carried through the roll chain.

reprices the adjusted book, not just the leg you changed

05 Taxes & cost basis

Wash-sale radar

61-day windows tracked across every connected account, including the IRA case where the loss is permanently disallowed rather than deferred. Surfaced when a position is opened or closed, not in February when the 1099 lands.

cross-account and IRA aware, strict or conservative matching

Live tax ledger

Realized gains and losses bucketed as you trade: short and long term equity, equity options, and Section 1256 contracts with their 60/40 treatment. Assignments fold the option premium into the stock basis, so one trade is never counted twice.

FIFO lots with holding periods, wash-sale windows overlaid

06 Alerts

Real-time risk alerts that grade themselves

Push and email the moment your risk shifts: a greek crosses a threshold, an assignment goes live, an event collision forms. Every alert scores itself afterward, so over time you see which warnings actually moved your P&L and which were noise.

How it works

Connected in minutes. Watching for you after that.

1

Connect read-only

Link your brokerage through SnapTrade. We never place trades, never see your login, and never move funds. Read-only, always.

2

We analyze continuously

Your positions are aggregated across brokers and run through the full risk model in real time as the market moves.

3

You get a live view

A dashboard that's always current, plus alerts the moment risk shifts, so you act on what's true now, not last hour.

What the connection can and can't do

The exact scope granted through your read-only SnapTrade link.
Read your positions and balancesThe book we analyze: greeks, P&L, exposure.
GRANTED
Place, modify, or cancel tradesWe surface risk; you execute in your own broker.
DENIED
See your broker login or passwordAuth stays with SnapTrade and your broker, never us.
DENIED
Move, withdraw, or transfer fundsNo money access of any kind, ever.
DENIED
Trust & security

Built to watch your book, never to touch it.

Access is read-only by design. We analyze; you decide and execute.

Read-only connection

The broker link can view positions and nothing else. We never place trades, never see your credentials, and never move funds.

Encrypted at rest

Connection tokens are encrypted at rest through our SnapTrade integration. Your login stays with your broker, not with us.

Informational by design

ObviousTrades is an analytics tool, not an adviser. It surfaces risk in your own book. It doesn't tell you what to trade.

Read our full security practices →

ObviousTrades LLC is not a registered investment adviser, broker-dealer, or CPA. The product is provided for informational and educational purposes only and is not financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell any security or contract. Analytics may contain errors and can differ from your broker's figures. You are solely responsible for your own trading decisions.
Accountability

We grade our own work. Publicly.

A risk tool earns trust by being checkable. Ours checks itself in front of you.

Self-grading alerts

Every alert we send is scored afterward against what the market actually did. The full track record, hits and misses alike, sits on your dashboard.

Honest math

Defined-risk losses are capped at your real max loss, never extrapolated past it. Estimates are labeled as estimates, everywhere.

No black box

Payoffs are repriced from your actual legs, capital comes from your broker's own margin numbers, and each method is stated in plain English.

Pricing

Free while we're in beta.

Connect a broker and use the full risk monitor at no cost during beta. Straightforward plans when we launch: no per-trade fees, no lock-in, and annual billing that works out to two months free.

Free
$0/ mo

See your real book's risk before you pay anything.

  • Connect your brokerage (read-only)
  • Live positions, greeks & P&L in one book
  • Urgent-only alerts
  • Data export anytime
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Pro: free in beta
$0/ mo during beta

then $49/mo or $490/yr (two months free)

The full monitor across every account you trade.

  • Unlimited brokers & accounts, combined
  • Everything in Starter
  • Wheel ledger with true cost basis through assignment
  • Wash-sale radar across accounts & IRAs
  • Live tax ledger with Section 1256 60/40
  • Liquidation horizon & margin-cushion tracking
  • Morning queue, guardrails & IV fit board
  • What-if & roll simulator
  • P&L attribution by greek & exit-cost menu
  • Push alerts, weekly PDF & full data export
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Desk: free in beta
$0/ mo during beta

then $149/mo or $1,490/yr (two months free)

For a book large enough that the failure mode is a margin call, not a bad strike.

  • Everything in Pro
  • Fund look-through: what you actually own inside your ETFs
  • Portfolio-margin modeling, hedges valued against the risk they offset
  • Independent verification of every broker mark
  • Tail risk: where bad days start and the average loss beyond it
  • Household view across people and accounts, with consent
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Custom

For trading groups and prop desks with shared oversight.

  • Multiple traders & shared views
  • Aggregated desk-level risk
  • Custom thresholds & routing
  • Priority support
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Beta pricing is free with no card required. We'll give existing users notice and preferential terms before any paid plan begins.

Three standing guarantees on every tier: tax exports are free forever, your closed trade history is never metered or paywalled, and cancelling leaves you a permanent free read-only view of your own ledger. A record of your trading should never be held for ransom.

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