Tools for screening high implied-volatility setups

High-IV screening software filters stocks or ETFs by implied-volatility level, IV rank, or IV percentile so you can see where options are priced richly relative to their recent range. Some products add realized-versus-implied comparisons or a “high volatility” preset.

This is a scanner job. A high IV rank is a number from a vendor model, not advice to sell premium, and not a forecast that volatility will fall. We do not claim that screening for high IV produces profits.

Use this job when you want a list of names whose options currently show elevated implied volatility, then do further work in a payoff, flow, or backtest tool. Do not treat the screen as a sell-premium service from this directory.

How to use this list

Pick by fit: free or trial on-ramp, IV-rank / percentile screen versus broader analytics, monthly dollars you can confirm on the vendor page. A listing is a job match, not a ranking. Prices below come from each tool’s verified offers on the FTT review. Confirm on the vendor site before you pay.

The grid at the bottom of this page is the catalog membership for this job. The numbered section is the live reviews whose product story honestly supports an IV / high-vol screen (plus one research scanner seat framed carefully).

Tools for this job

1. Market Chameleon

Browser options analytics with Implied Vol. Rankings, IV movers, unusual volume, earnings screens, and multi-leg lookup on Premium. Free Starter is $0 (nav label; feature matrix beyond the label is unverified without login). Verified paid offer: Premium / Total Access $99/mo with a 7-day trial. Fits people who want a browser IV-rank / analytics seat before they build a structure elsewhere. Skip if you need a live unusual-options tape as the primary job, a broker, a verified Canadian-listed chain, or a published annual dollar (unverified on the pages we captured).

2. Option Samurai

US options strategy scanner with IV rank / IV vs realized volatility, IV percentile rank, unusual-volume views, and P/L charts on the same site. Verified Yearly-view offers: Beginner $35/mo and Advanced $50/mo when paid annually; 14-day free trial, no credit card. Fits traders who want strategy scans with IV context on one seat. Skip if you need a dedicated live flow firehose, Option Samurai to be the broker, verified Canadian-listed coverage, or confirmed monthly-billing dollars without opening the pricing toggle.

3. Barchart

Market-data / charting / screening site; Premier unlocks Unusual Options Activity, Options Flow, Advanced Options Screeners, IV tools, and historical options downloads. Verified offers: Free (My Barchart) $0; Plus Monthly $9.99, Plus Annual $99, Plus Biennial $179; Premier Monthly $29.95, Premier Annual $239.95, Premier Biennial $419.95. Paid tiers advertise first 30 days free. Fits people who want charting / screening with Premier IV and options statistics — not a pure IV-rank SaaS. Skip if you need Barchart to be the broker, a dedicated Supercharts or payoff-builder seat, or verified CAD billing / named Canadian-broker integrations.

4. ORATS

Options research / backtesting / scanning software (Option Scanner, Stock Scanner, Trade Builder) with an Intraday Backtester on the same Trading Tools seat. The live review does not name a dedicated “IV rank / IV percentile” high-IV screen the way Market Chameleon does — treat this as a research scanner seat that is tagged here, not as a pure IV-rank product. Verified offers: Trading Tools Individual $99/mo; Professional $199/user/mo. Fits people who already want ORATS for research / backtest and also use its scanners. Skip if you need a free full-seat week, a flow-tape-first product, or verified Canadian-listed coverage.

Compare pages (not rankings)

Payoff vs flow (not a ranking): OptionStrat vs Unusual Whales: strategy-builder diagram vs unusual-options flow tape. An IV screen is a third job; people searching that pair are often mixing diagram and tape, not an IV-rank filter.

Four-way flow split (not a ranking): Unusual Whales vs Cheddar Flow vs Tradytics vs Quant Data — tape packaging. Useful when you confused a high-IV name list with a live unusual-options feed.

Also in this job (newer / not fully reviewed yet)

FTT has not published stub-only directory entries tagged for this job. Official links only appear here when we have an unreviewed product story to point at — none for this wave. Tagged live tools that do not center a dedicated IV-rank / high-IV name screen stay under Related below. No invented prices.

Barchart neighbors (not a ranking): Barchart alternatives for IV screening: job-fit map when Premier IV / options stats is close but not quite the seat.

Related jobs / adjacent (not the same job)

These help next to a high-IV screen. They are not substitutes for a dedicated IV-rank / high-vol screener unless the review says they also run that screen.

• MenthorQ — Gamma levels, Q-Score, Swing Model, Trading Dashboard. Tagged for this job in the catalog; product story is levels / models first, not an IV-rank name screener. Verified Premium $129/mo; Pro $349/mo (annual cards $1,164 / $3,108).
• SpotGamma: Dealer-positioning / GEX-levels research; Alpha adds a Volatility Dashboard. Not a high-IV equity screener peer. Support lists Essential at $99 a month and Alpha at $299 a month. Pro at $129 is unconfirmed. Full plan table: SpotGamma pricing.
• Unusual Whales — Unusual-options flow tape with Greeks / volatility dashboards and stock/options screeners as extras. Primary collection: scan unusual options flow. Free $0 (options flow 2 trading days late); Retail Basic $50, Pro $75, Max $120 (USD/mo).
• Option Alpha — Education / automation (bots, backtesting, paper trading). Tagged here; the live review does not describe an IV-rank / high-IV name screen. Verified Pro $99/mo annual billing or $149/mo monthly.
• Study IV surfaces: IV rank / skew / term structure as a study job next to a screen.
• Visualize an options payoff — Draw the structure after you have a name list.
• Backtest options strategies — Replay rules on past data; a past IV regime is not a forecast.
• Scan unusual options flow — Live unusual-options tape. Different job from an IV-rank list.

Canadian readers: IV rank and percentile series are typically built on US-listed / OPRA options. Canadian-listed coverage is unverified for each tool unless a review says otherwise (Barchart Premier copy notes historical equity-option price history can include Canadian contracts — that is not the same as verifying a live high-IV screen for Montréal-listed names).

Also covered: Study IV rank and volatility surfaces

IV-rank and volatility-surface software shows where implied volatility sits versus its history, how it changes across expirations (term structure), and how it changes across strikes (a surface). Some products add constant-maturity IVs or a smoothed surface.

Those charts are context, not a forecast and not a recommendation to buy or sell volatility. A steep surface or a high IV rank is a vendor calculation. We do not claim that reading a surface finds an edge.

Also covered: Screen options around earnings

Earnings-options screening software lists names with upcoming or recent reports and shows options context such as implied move, historical move, or earnings-adjusted volatility. Some products add a strategy screen around the event.

This is research input. An implied move is a price derived from options, not a prediction from this directory, and not a recommendation to buy or sell a straddle. We do not run an earnings-play service and we do not claim that screening around earnings improves results.

Also covered: Screen covered-call and wheel structures

Covered-call and cash-secured-put screening software lists stock-plus-short-call or cash-plus-short-put structures. Some products also describe the two-step “wheel” sequence (short put, then covered call if assigned). A payoff tool that includes those templates is here as a way to study the shape, not to sell a system.

This is structure screening and study. Yield columns, probability labels, and “income” rankings are vendor scores. They are not a wheel system from this directory, not a promise of monthly income, and not advice to write calls or puts.