Market Chameleon Alternative for Options Income Traders

Market Chameleon Alternative: Screeners vs Portfolio Truth

If you are searching for a Market Chameleon alternative, start here: Market Chameleon is a browser research site. Premium / Total Access is $99/month (USD) with a 7-day free trial, deep covered-call and naked-put screeners, and CSV downloads. It is not a broker and not a live portfolio ledger. Days to Expiry is the alternative when you already have positions and need roll-adjusted cost basis, per-leg P&L, and a weekly plan from the book you actually hold.

Overview

Market Chameleon is a web research product (marketchameleon.com). There is no extra software to install. Market data on the public Premium pages is delayed 15 minutes (as of 2026-08-13).

The product is built for options and event research: covered-call and naked-put screeners, historical implied volatility, earnings and dividend calendars, and CSV downloads of chains, trades, and calendars. It is not a broker. It is not a portfolio-truth product that syncs a live book and shows roll-adjusted basis.

That split is the whole “alternative” question. If you want more screener filters and downloads, stay on Market Chameleon or compare it to other research desks. If you want true cost basis after rolls and per-leg P&L on the positions you already sold, you need a different tool.

Days to Expiry sits on that second job. Start Your Free Trial if the gap is portfolio truth, not another research tab.

Key specs

Facts below are from the competitor matrix row market-chameleon, sourced 2026-08-13. Empty or unverified keys are omitted.

Spec	Value	Source / as_of
Pricing	Premium / Total Access $99/month (USD). Yearly discount is not listed as a public dollar amount — Compare says contact [email protected]. Options Trader SKU is marked SOLD OUT and redirects to Total Access; the $999/$499/$239 figures on that page are feature “value” marketing, not the subscription price.	Subscription/Compare · 2026-08-13
Free tier / trial	7-day free trial. Card is not charged during trial; if you do not cancel before the trial ends, the first month is billed. Trial allows 2 downloads / rolling 24h; paid Premium allows 25 downloads / rolling 24h. Basic (logged-out) site remains usable with fewer screener/date windows.	Premium · 2026-08-13
Platform	Web research site (marketchameleon.com) — no extra software to install; browser only. Market data delayed 15 minutes.	Premium · 2026-08-13
Strategy coverage	Premium unlocks covered-call and naked-put screeners (15+ filters), option/stock/ETF screeners, large option-trade screener, peer volatility/dividend/straddle analysis, order-flow sentiment, historical IV, and CSV downloads (chains, trades, calendars).	Premium · 2026-08-13
Broker sync	Not a portfolio aggregator. IBKR customers can subscribe to Premium through Interactive Brokers (vendor how-to). No Flex/SnapTrade-style live book sync on public pages.	IBKR subscribe how-to · 2026-08-13
Cost basis	Not offered / not stated on public Premium pages — research/screener product, not a roll-adjusted portfolio ledger.	Premium · 2026-08-13
Per-leg P&L	Not offered for a live broker book. Screeners and downloads cover multi-leg/spread research; no per-leg P&L ledger for imported positions.	Premium · 2026-08-13
Weekly plan	Not offered / not stated on public Premium pages — no weekly execution plan from live holdings.	Premium · 2026-08-13
Best for	Options/event researchers who want screeners, historical IV, earnings/dividend calendars, and CSV downloads — not a broker and not a portfolio-truth product.	Premium · 2026-08-13

How it works

Market Chameleon is a research site you use in the browser. You run screeners, inspect calendars and historical IV, and (on Premium) download CSVs. The public pages describe covered-call and naked-put screeners with 15+ filters, a large-trade screener, peer volatility / dividend / straddle views, and order-flow sentiment. That is a scan-and-download workflow.

It is not an import-and-reconcile workflow. Public pages do not describe Flex Query or SnapTrade-style live book sync. Interactive Brokers customers can subscribe to Premium through IBKR as a vendor add-on; that is a billing path, not a portfolio aggregator.

Because there is no imported book, there is also no roll-adjusted cost basis and no weekly execution plan generated from current holdings. You still decide what to sell this week from the screener output, then place the trade in a broker.

If you already sell covered calls or cash-secured puts and the pain is “what is my basis after three rolls?”, a covered call calculator or cash-secured put calculator can price one ticket. They still do not replace a ledger. See the cash-secured puts playbook for the assignment side of that decision.

Who should use this

Matrix who_for: options research users who want screeners, event calendars, and data downloads rather than broker-synced portfolio P&L.

Stay with Market Chameleon if your weekly work is:

• Scanning for covered-call or naked-put candidates with many filters
• Pulling historical IV, earnings, and dividend calendars
• Downloading chains, trades, or calendars to a spreadsheet (Premium: 25 downloads / rolling 24 hours)

Look elsewhere if your weekly work is:

• Reconciling a live multi-leg book after rolls and assignments
• Seeing which leg of a spread or condor is carrying P&L
• Getting a bounded “what to sell this week” list from current holdings, not from a universe screener

Those second jobs are why people search for a Market Chameleon alternative even when they like the screeners.

Pros and cons

Pros (matrix):

• Public $99/mo Premium with 7-day trial
• Deep covered-call / naked-put / large-trade screeners
• CSV downloads and saved screener presets

Cons (matrix):

• Research/screener, not roll-adjusted cost basis or weekly plan from live positions
• Public annual price not listed (email-only discount)
• Options Trader SKU sold out

The sold-out Options Trader SKU is a product-line note, not a pricing cut. Compare redirects that SKU to Total Access. Do not treat the $999 / $499 / $239 “value” figures on that page as the subscription price — the matrix records them as marketing, not the bill.

vs our product

Use the matrix verdict criteria only. Days to Expiry pricing is not invented here; start at Start Your Free Trial.

Criterion	Market Chameleon (matrix, 2026-08-13)	Days to Expiry (this product’s job)
Pricing	Premium / Total Access $99/month. Yearly dollar amount is not public (email support).	See trial / pricing from the CTA — do not infer a number from this page.
Free tier	7-day trial; card billed if you do not cancel; 2 downloads / 24h on trial vs 25 on paid. Logged-out basic site still works with fewer windows.	Trial is the path on Start Your Free Trial.
Strategy coverage	Covered-call and naked-put screeners, large-trade screener, peer IV/dividend/straddle, order-flow sentiment, historical IV, CSV downloads.	Portfolio tracking and weekly planning for income structures you already hold — options portfolio tracker, multi-leg options tracking.
Broker sync	Not a portfolio aggregator. IBKR vendor subscribe path exists. No Flex/SnapTrade-style live book on public pages.	Built to read a live or imported book (Flex / broker / CSV), then explain rolls. Complementary to a screener, not a replacement research terminal.

If you also compared visualization/flow tools, the OptionStrat review and Option Omega review cover those jobs. Market Chameleon is closer to a data/screener desk than to a builder or a backtester.

An options screener article is useful when you are still choosing which names to write. Once the positions exist, the gap is ledger truth, not another filter column.

Verdict

Scored only against matrix verdict_criteria:

• Pricing. Public, sourced number is $99/month for Premium / Total Access. There is no public yearly dollar figure. That is honest and expensive if you only needed a weekly income plan from positions you already own.
• Free tier. A real 7-day trial with a clear charge-if-you-do-not-cancel rule and a hard download cap (2 vs 25 per 24 hours). Good for evaluating screeners. Not enough to test a portfolio ledger, because the product is not one.
• Strategy coverage. Strong for research: covered-call / naked-put / large-trade screeners, calendars, historical IV, CSV. Weak for post-trade management: no roll-adjusted basis, no live per-leg P&L, no weekly plan from holdings.
• Broker sync. Explicitly not a portfolio aggregator. The IBKR path is how some customers pay for Premium, not how they sync a book.

Choose Market Chameleon when you want a research terminal and will accept $99/mo plus a 7-day trial to get screeners and downloads.

Choose a Market Chameleon alternative like Days to Expiry when the unsolved problem is portfolio truth after rolls. Start Your Free Trial and keep Market Chameleon only if you still need the research CSVs.

Sources

Row as_of: 2026-08-13.

• Product home — https://marketchameleon.com/
• Premium — https://marketchameleon.com/Premium
• Compare — https://marketchameleon.com/Subscription/Compare
• Total Access — https://marketchameleon.com/Subscription/TotalAccess
• Options Trader (sold out) — https://marketchameleon.com/Subscription/Options
• How to subscribe from Interactive Brokers — https://marketchameleon.com/Learn/How-to-Subscribe-to-Market-Chameleon-from-Interactive-Brokers

FAQ

Is Market Chameleon a broker? No. Matrix best_for and broker_sync say it is not a broker and not a portfolio aggregator. You still execute in a brokerage.

How much does Market Chameleon cost? Public Premium / Total Access is $99/month (USD) as of 2026-08-13 on Subscription/Compare. A yearly dollar discount is not listed publicly — Compare tells you to email support. Do not use the $999 / $499 / $239 “value” figures as the price.

Does Market Chameleon have a free trial? Yes. A 7-day free trial. The card is not charged during the trial; if you do not cancel, the first month is billed. Trial downloads are capped at 2 per rolling 24 hours (25 on paid Premium).

Will Market Chameleon show true cost basis after I roll a covered call? Not on the public Premium pages. The matrix records cost basis and weekly plan as not offered / not stated. That is the usual reason to look at a Market Chameleon alternative.

Can I sync Interactive Brokers into Market Chameleon? IBKR customers can subscribe to Premium through Interactive Brokers. Public pages do not describe Flex- or SnapTrade-style live book sync.