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Strategy Guide

Track Your Calendar Spread with OptionsEdge

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The tracking problem

Why tracking your calendar spread is harder than it looks

Understanding the complexities of calendar spreads

Managing early assignment risk for American-style options

Dealing with limited profit potential

Navigating market price movements that impact strategy effectiveness

Complexity in understanding premium decay

Difficulty predicting stock price movements

What matters

Key metrics to journal for your calendar spread

These are the numbers that actually tell you if your strategy has edge

1

Net debit paid to open the calendar spread

2

Time decay differential — how fast the short leg decays vs. the long leg

3

Implied volatility at entry for both expirations and how it changes

4

P&L at various price points relative to the strike price

5

Roll decisions — when and why you rolled the short leg to a new expiration

6

Maximum profit zone and how close the underlying stayed to your strike

Built for this strategy

How OptionsEdge tracks your calendar spread

Groups your short-dated and long-dated options at the same strike into a single calendar spread position

Tracks net debit, theta differential, and true P&L as the short leg expires or is rolled

Roll tracking preserves cost basis across multiple expiration cycles

Strategy-level P&L shows calendar spread performance separately from other strategies

Import diagonal and calendar spreads from ThinkorSwim or Tastytrade CSV — legs matched automatically

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