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Days to Expiry
Options Portfolio Clarity

The Market Chameleon Alternative Built for Portfolio Truth, Not Just Research

Market Chameleon is a serious research desk: covered-call and naked-put screeners, historical IV, and CSV downloads at $99/mo (verified 2026-09-23). But screeners end at the trade. Days to Expiry adds the missing half — live broker-synced roll-adjusted cost basis, per-leg P&L, and a weekly execution plan for $50/mo.

Market Chameleon is a browser-based options research subscription: covered-call and naked-put screeners with 15+ filters, historical implied volatility, earnings and dividend calendars, order-flow sentiment, and CSV downloads — Premium is $99/month with a 7-day trial (marketchameleon.com, re-verified 2026-09-23). If your question is 'what trades look interesting?', it answers well. If your question is 'what did my book actually do after I sold the put, rolled the call, and got assigned?' — screeners end where the portfolio begins. Days to Expiry is the market chameleon alternative for the second question: connect Interactive Brokers via Flex Query or 32+ brokers via SnapTrade, and every position syncs into roll-adjusted true cost basis, per-leg P&L, coverage views, and an auto-generated weekly execution plan. You keep income-focused scanning — including a free covered call screener with model assignment probability — and add the portfolio-truth layer a research desk doesn't provide.

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Problem

Market Chameleon Finds Trades. It Doesn't Track What Happens Next.

Screeners End at the Trade — Covered-call and naked-put screeners surface candidates; your live book after entry is out of scope

Download Allowances — Paid Premium allows 25 downloads per rolling 24 hours (2 during the trial) — research quotas, not portfolio sync (marketchameleon.com, 2026-09-23)

No Roll-Adjusted Cost Basis — A research/download product, not a portfolio ledger; basis after rolls and assignments is manual work (2026-08-13 catalog)

Delayed Data on Public Pages — The Premium pages state market data is delayed 15 minutes (2026-08-13 catalog)

Solution

Days to Expiry: Research-Informed Screening Plus Live Portfolio Truth

Free Income Screener

Covered calls, CSPs, and long-call scanning with model assignment probability — free to start

True Cost Basis After Rolls

Roll-adjusted basis and break-evens on live positions, not hypothetical trades

Per-Leg P&L

Multi-leg structures broken down by leg against your actual broker fills

Multi-Broker Portfolio Sync

IBKR Flex first-class; SnapTrade for 32+ brokers; CSV when needed

Weekly Execution Plan

What to sell, roll, or close this week — generated from the book you hold

AI / MCP Portfolio Queries

Ask Claude, Cursor, or Windsurf about your live portfolio via scoped API keys

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How it works

Get started in 3 simple steps

1

Screen With Context

Use the free screener to find CC and CSP candidates with model assignment probability, DTE ranges, and annualized ROI. Add dedicated wheel and options backtests on Pro when you want historical assignment rates behind a setup.

2

Connect Your Broker

Sync Interactive Brokers via Flex Query or connect 32+ brokers through SnapTrade. Your positions, fills, rolls, and assignments import automatically — no CSV quotas, no download-and-reconcile loop.

3

Run the Weekly Review

See roll-adjusted true cost basis, per-leg P&L, coverage, and income by week and month. The weekly execution plan turns it into a bounded action list: rolls, closes, and new candidates that fit your actual cash and holdings.

Key Metrics

Trial card

Not required

Brokers via SnapTrade

32+

Weekly Plan

Auto

Free Trial

14 days

Key Specs

SpecValueSource
PricingPremium / Total Access $99/month (USD), re-verified live on the public Compare page. Annual discount is not listed as a public dollar amount — the 2026-08-13 catalog check found it is email-only; the Options Trader SKU is marked sold out.Verified 2026-09-23
Free tier / trial7-day free trial; card is not charged during the trial and the first month bills if you don't cancel. Download limits: 2 per rolling 24h on trial, 25 per rolling 24h on paid Premium.Verified 2026-09-23
Strategy coveragePremium 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.Verified 2026-08-13
PlatformWeb research site — nothing to install, browser only. Public Premium pages state market data is delayed 15 minutes.Verified 2026-08-13
Broker syncNot a portfolio aggregator — no Flex/SnapTrade-style live book sync on public pages. IBKR customers can subscribe to Premium through Interactive Brokers as an add-on.Verified 2026-08-13
Cost basisNot offered / not stated on public Premium pages — research/screener product, not a roll-adjusted portfolio ledger.Verified 2026-08-13
Per-leg P&LNot offered for a live broker book — screeners and downloads cover multi-leg research; no per-leg P&L ledger for imported positions.Verified 2026-08-13
Weekly planNot offered / not stated on public Premium pages — no weekly execution plan from live holdings.Verified 2026-08-13
Best forOptions/event researchers who want screeners, historical IV, earnings/dividend calendars, and CSV downloads — not a broker and not a portfolio-truth product.Verified 2026-08-13
Days to Expiry Pro pricePro $50/mo ($500/yr). Amounts from live Stripe prices API backing /pricing.Verified 2026-08-13
Days to Expiry free tier / trialDemo portfolio free; live portfolio via SnapTrade on Starter; backtests on Pro. No credit card to start, cancel anytime.Verified 2026-09-23
Days to Expiry syncSnapTrade for 32+ brokers, first-class IBKR Flex Query auto-sync, or CSV upload — with commissions, splits, and corporate actions normalized.Verified 2026-09-23

Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know about getting started

Is Days to Expiry a complete Market Chameleon alternative?

It depends which half of the workflow you mean. Market Chameleon is a research desk: screeners with 15+ filters, historical IV, event calendars, and CSV downloads at $99/mo (re-verified 2026-09-23). Days to Expiry deliberately does not replicate the deep research catalog. What it adds is the half Market Chameleon doesn't cover: live broker-synced tracking with roll-adjusted cost basis, per-leg P&L, a weekly execution plan, and AI portfolio queries. If research output is your main need, keep Market Chameleon; if portfolio truth after the trade is the gap, that's Days to Expiry.

How does pricing compare to Market Chameleon Premium?

As of 2026-09-23, marketchameleon.com advertises Premium at $99/month with a 7-day trial (card not charged during trial; download limits 2 per rolling 24h on trial and 25 on paid). Days to Expiry Pro is $50/mo ($500/yr) from the live Stripe prices backing /pricing, with a 14-day free trial. Check both vendor pages for current rates.

Can Days to Expiry replace the covered-call and naked-put screeners?

For income-focused screening decisions, largely yes: the free screener filters covered calls and cash-secured puts by assignment probability, DTE, and strike range, ranked by annualized ROI, with live pricing. What it doesn't replicate is Market Chameleon's broad research catalog — peer volatility, straddle analysis, order-flow sentiment, and CSV data downloads. If you use those weekly, they aren't here.

I trade at Interactive Brokers — do I need this or the IBKR Premium add-on?

The IBKR add-on routes Market Chameleon's research subscription through your broker login — it is still the same research product, not a live book sync (2026-08-13 catalog). Days to Expiry connects with a first-class IBKR Flex Query sync instead: positions and fills import automatically, and the roll-adjusted cost basis and weekly plan run against your real data.

What happens to my portfolio data when the trial ends?

When paid access ends, SnapTrade connections are disconnected and their synced portfolio data is kept for 90 days before it is purged; IBKR Flex auto-refresh pauses but your Flex settings are kept. The demo portfolio, the daily free screener allowance, and manual CSV upload remain. Cancel anytime; there's no contract.

Why does Days to Expiry emphasize cost basis so much?

Because after a few rolls and an assignment, most traders can't state their true break-even — broker screens show trade-by-trade P&L, and research tools never see the book at all. Roll-adjusted cost basis chains every premium, roll credit, and assignment cost into one number per position. That's the number that tells you whether the income strategy is actually winning.

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