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Live — markets open. ATM premium ticks captured every 5 min for 3%+ F&O movers — signals fire when premium breaks today's high/low.

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Signals appear when an ATM CE or PE premium breaks today's tracked high (or low) after 9:45 AM IST. Premium must be ≥₹10.

Informational and educational only — not investment advice. Premium breakouts are one signal among many and frequently fail intraday. Always validate with the live option chain, volume, IV regime, and your own risk plan. MarketsEasy is not a SEBI-registered investment adviser; consult a registered professional before trading.

Options scanner — how premium breakouts are detected

The scanner watches at-the-money call and put premiums on NSE F&O stocks that have already moved 3% or more today, sampling every five minutes and firing a signal when a premium breaks the day's tracked high or low — currently tracking 6 stocks with 0 active signals.

A premium carries information a price chart does not. It moves on direction and on implied volatility together, so a premium making a new high while the stock merely holds its level tells you the market is paying up for what happens next.

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Scanner state as of 3 Sept 2026, 2:04 pm IST. Premiums sampled every 5 minutes during market hours.

Why the 3% filter comes before the options logic

Options on a stock that is not moving generate constant small premium fluctuations that mean nothing. Requiring a 3% move in the underlying first restricts the scan to names where something identifiable has happened, so a premium breakout in that set reflects genuine repricing rather than noise. It is a deliberately blunt filter, and it is the reason the signal list stays short enough to read.

Premium breakouts and stock breakouts are different events

A stock breaking its day high needs only price. An ATM premium breaking its day high can happen on price, on rising implied volatility, or on both — and it can also fail to happen during a price breakout if volatility is collapsing at the same time. That divergence is the useful part: a stock at a new high whose call premium is not confirming often marks a move the options market does not believe in.

Decay works against every long option position

Time value erodes every day and erodes fastest near expiry, so a breakout that stalls loses money even when the underlying holds perfectly still. This matters more for intraday premium signals than almost any other kind, because the thesis has hours rather than weeks to work. Any signal here needs an exit rule on time as well as on price.

Frequently asked questions

What is an options premium breakout?

It is the moment an at-the-money call or put premium trades above the highest price it has reached so far that day. Because a premium reflects both the direction of the underlying and its implied volatility, a premium making a new high says demand for that option is expanding rather than merely that the stock ticked up. This scanner tracks ATM premiums every five minutes and flags the break when it happens.

Why does the scanner only watch stocks that have already moved 3%?

Because options on a stock going nowhere produce noise. A 3% move is the filter that says something is actually happening in the underlying — results, an order win, a sector move, a block deal — and options on those names are where premium expansion is meaningful rather than random. Scanning all 180-plus F&O names indiscriminately would bury every real signal.

Why do signals only start after 9:45 AM?

A breakout above the day's high is meaningless in the first few minutes, when the day's high is whatever printed thirty seconds ago. The scanner needs a baseline of ticks before "today's high" describes anything, so it withholds signals until the opening auction volatility has settled and a real intraday range exists.

Is a premium breakout a buy signal?

No. It marks expanding demand for an option, which can precede continuation or mark the exhaustion point where late buyers pay the most for the least remaining move. Options also decay: a breakout that stalls loses value to theta even if the underlying does not fall. Treat a signal as a prompt to look at the chart and the option chain, never as an instruction. This is not investment advice.

What does ATM mean in options trading?

At-the-money — the strike closest to the current price of the underlying. ATM options are watched because they carry the most time value and are the most sensitive to changes in implied volatility, which makes their premiums the clearest read on how urgently the market is repricing that stock. Deep in- or out-of-the-money premiums are dominated by intrinsic value or by noise respectively.

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Scanner signals identify options whose premium crossed a mechanical threshold. They are not trade recommendations. Options trading carries a risk of losing the entire premium paid.