Scanner Pmcc

If you're running LEAPS diagonals or Poor Man's Covered Calls, this scanner scores tickers across eight dimensions: delta alignment, liquidity depth, bid-ask spread tightness, IV range, annualized yield, trend direction, and earnings proximity. It pulls real option chains, computes IV from bid-ask spreads using Black-Scholes, and ranks candidates on a 14-point scale with full breakdowns. The scoring is transparent and opinionated (downranks anything with earnings inside 45 days, rewards 25-50% IV). You feed it symbols or a JSON file from another scanner, it outputs structured data, and Claude writes the actual report from that JSON instead of using the mechanical markdown generator. Useful when you need to filter a watchlist down to structurally sound PMCC setups without manually digging through option chains.

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last updated: Jun 11, 2026

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Install

$ npx -y skills add staskh/trading_skills --skill scanner-pmcc --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

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PMCC Scanner

Finds optimal Poor Man's Covered Call setups by scoring symbols on option chain quality.

What is PMCC?

Buy deep ITM LEAPS call (delta ~0.80) + Sell short-term OTM call (delta ~0.20) against it. Cheaper alternative to covered calls.

Instructions

Note: If uv is not installed or pyproject.toml is not found, replace uv run python with python in all commands below.

uv run python scripts/scan.py SYMBOLS [options]

Arguments

SYMBOLS - Comma-separated tickers or path to JSON file from bullish scanner
--min-leaps-days - Minimum LEAPS expiration in days (default: 270 = 9 months)
--leaps-delta - Target LEAPS delta (default: 0.80)
--short-delta - Target short call delta (default: 0.20)
--output - Save results to JSON file (use this; Claude generates the report from the JSON)
--report - Save auto-generated markdown to file (programmatic fallback only — prefer Claude-generated reports)