PMCC Scanner

⚠️ **Trading warning / Avertissement trading** : informational only, not investment advice. A PMCC is a leveraged diagonal spread, not a cheap stock substitute: the LEAPS can lose most of its value, the short call caps your upside and can be assigned, and a high scanner score says the options are tradable, not that the trade will profit. Trading it carries a real risk of loss. No output here is a promise of return. Curated by Skill Harbor: a scanner that scores symbols for Poor Man's Covered Call suitability, the strategy that pairs a deep in-the-money LEAPS call (delta about 0.80, at least 270 days out by default) with a short out-of-the-money call (delta about 0.20) sold against it. Every candidate is scored on a published scale (maximum 14, theoretical range from minus 8 to 14): closeness of both legs to their target deltas, volume and open interest on both legs, bid-ask spread percentages, an implied volatility band that pays best between 25 and 50 percent, the period and annualized yield, trend checks (price against the 50-day average, RSI, MACD), and the distance to the next earnings date, with penalty-only deductions for missing weekly options, thin strike density and tiny short premiums. The output gives the chosen LEAPS and short legs with strike, delta, bid, ask and volume, the net debit and capital required, and a full score breakdown where every component shows its points and its explanation, so a low score can be traced to the exact failing test. A notable craft detail: implied volatility is always computed from market prices by Black-Scholes inversion (mid price in market hours, last price off hours), never read from Yahoo's implied volatility column. It runs as a Python script (scripts/scan.py) from the staskh/trading_skills repo, on a ticker list or on the JSON output of the repo's bullish scanner, and the agent writes the narrative report from the JSON rather than using the script's mechanical report flag. From the staskh/trading_skills repository (MIT). Honest caveats: the data comes from Yahoo Finance and can be delayed or thin on smaller names, which the liquidity and spread scores only partly protect against; the yield figures are annualized from one short window and assume you can repeat the trade, which earnings, assignment and price moves regularly interrupt; and the score grades option-chain quality, not the underlying business. Skill Harbor never reviews the code, review it yourself before use.