History delivered exactly one path. Whatever your covered-call or Wheel backtest returned is a single draw from a distribution you never got to see — and you have no way to tell, from that one number, whether the edge was real or the path was kind. This is the instrument that shows you the rest of the distribution.
What a backtest tells you
One realization of the past.
What happened, once, on the single path that history actually took
Results built on the one implied-volatility environment that occurred
One sequence of drawdowns, in the order they happened to arrive
An edge that may belong to the path rather than to the strategy
What the simulator adds
The distribution that result came from.
Thousands of alternate markets, block-resampled from real SPY and QQQ daily returns since 2001
Option richness as a dial you sweep, not a fact you inherit — the one variable history ran only once
A dynamic IV surface with skew and term structure, plus real decay, rolling, and assignment mechanics
Falsification and holdout workflows against exposure-matched benchmarks, so a result has to survive being attacked
This does not replace your backtester. A backtest estimates what the market did; this estimates how much of that was luck. Run both.
Monthly
Flexible research access, billed monthly.
$29 per month
14-day free trial for new accounts
Thousands of Monte Carlo paths per experiment, with matched buy-and-hold and exposure-matched benchmarks
Covered call, cash-secured put / Wheel, and LEAPS research on one pricing engine
Premium-sensitivity, threshold-robustness, regime-sweep, holdout, and falsification workflows
Describe a hypothesis in plain English and get a runnable experiment specification back
Reproducible server-run results, saved to your own account history
Cancel any time from your account
Two months free
Annual
For sustained research work.
$249 per year — $20.75 per month
14-day free trial for new accounts
Everything in Monthly
Roughly two months free against monthly billing
One renewal date to keep track of
Manage payment details in the billing portal
A payment method is collected when you start a trial. You will not be charged during the first 14 days. After the trial, your selected monthly or annual subscription begins unless you cancel first.
Before you subscribe
Options Research Lab Pro is a research and education instrument. It simulates markets. It has no brokerage connection, places no trades, and handles no real money.
Nothing produced by this tool is investment advice, a recommendation, or a solicitation to trade. Mark is not a registered investment adviser or broker-dealer. Options carry substantial risk of loss and are not suitable for every investor.
Simulated results are not predictions. They describe the behaviour of a model under stated assumptions, and every published finding on this site carries its assumptions with it. Read them. Across the research completed so far, results have more often been unfavourable to option sellers than favourable — that is the finding, not a disclaimer.
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