Long call to buy today with highest profit

Important Context

No screener—or analyst—can reliably identify which single call option will deliver the “highest profit potential” today. Options are leveraged and highly risky; outcomes depend on future price moves, volatility shifts, and time decay, all of which are uncertain.

What the screener can do is tilt the odds by selecting underlying stocks that are statistically more likely to rise in the near term and have bullish sentiment—conditions that are generally favorable for long call strategies.

Screening Filters

1. moving_average_relationship: PriceAboveMA20

   • Purpose: Select stocks currently trading above their 20‑day moving average.
   • Rationale:
     • The 20‑day moving average is a short‑term trend indicator.
     • Price above the 20‑day MA typically suggests an uptrend or positive momentum.
     • For long calls, you usually want the underlying moving up, not fighting a downtrend.

2. one_week_rise_prob: min 60

   • Purpose: Include only stocks with at least a 60% modeled probability of rising over the next week.
   • Rationale:
     • Long calls are highly sensitive to short‑term price direction due to time decay.
     • A probabilistic filter helps focus on names where the odds of an upward move (within a week) are better than a coin flip.
     • This aligns directly with your goal of higher profit potential in the short-term.

3. one_week_predict_return: min 8

   • Purpose: Require a model‑predicted return of at least +8% over the next week.
   • Rationale:
     • Call options benefit not just from direction (up) but from the magnitude of the move.
     • An 8%+ expected move in the underlying can translate into a much larger percentage gain in the call because of leverage.
     • This filter aims to find stocks where the potential move is big enough to overcome option premiums and time decay.

4. is_optionable: True

   • Purpose: Limit results to stocks that actually have listed options.
   • Rationale:
     • You asked specifically about buying long call options.
     • Many stocks (especially smaller ones) don’t have options; this filter ensures every result is tradable via calls.

5. option_sentiments: Bullish

   • Purpose: Focus on stocks with bullish options market sentiment (e.g., call buying, skew, or other sentiment indicators).
   • Rationale:
     • Bullish options sentiment often reflects other traders positioning for upside.
     • This can reinforce the bullish thesis and may sometimes precede or accompany positive moves in the stock.
     • For a long call buyer, aligning with existing bullish flow can increase the chance that the call gains value.

Why the Results Match Your Intent

• The screen focuses on uptrending stocks (above 20‑day MA) rather than names in clear downtrends.
• It adds a quantitative tilt toward stocks with a higher short‑term probability of rising (≥60%) and meaningful expected upside (≥8% in a week), both critical for long calls.
• It ensures practical tradability by requiring optionable stocks.
• It overlays bullish options sentiment, which is consistent with your desire to profit from a bullish options position.

Together, these filters don’t guarantee the “highest profit” but they are all logically chosen to locate underlying stocks where long call options have relatively higher profit potential in the near term, given standard option dynamics.