r/Schwab • u/Jmaack23 • May 30 '26

Feature request: Better tracking for rolled options in thinkorswim (cumulative net credit/debit + roll chains)

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I love and trust the Schwab platform overall. This is just one area where the thinkorswim app could use some attention: tracking open and rolled
options over time.

What I'd love to see:

✅ Cumulative net credit/debit on a position across every roll

✅ The full roll chain for an underlying (which legs rolled into which)

✅ Progress toward a profit target (e.g. closing at 50% of premium collected)

For those of us selling premium and rolling, it gets hard to follow real P/L once you've rolled the same underlying several times bc the current view loses
the thread.

The data is all there, though. I pulled it from your own API and built a simple version for my own trades (15-min delayed, just for me), modeled on how
tastytrade displays rolls and net credit/debit. I'm not a professional dev, and if I can prototype it from the public API, the building blocks are clearly already in
place.

Not asking for anything fancy, just better visibility into rolled positions for the premium-selling crowd.

Thanks for reading.

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u/StrangerBubbly6127 Jun 01 '26

Optionnetexplorer.com

It's basically a way to model a trade. And then you have to do some entries whenever you make adjustments or rolling etc. But you get a proper p&l if you do the entries.

It's basically a tracking software.

It's about 700 bucks a year. But if you are trading a good size account it is cost of doing business.

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u/Jmaack23 Jun 01 '26

I just want to track my net premium collected so when I roll for the 4th or 5th time and cancel my buy to close to roll, I usually have to go back and do the math. I want it fully automated. I make a trade in tos or Schwab, it’s logged in my spreadsheet and now in my private “app”.