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Scan stocks for Poor Man's Covered Call (PMCC) suitability. Analyzes LEAPS and short call options for delta, liquidity, spread, IV, and yield. Use when user asks about PMCC candidates, diagonal spreads, or LEAPS strategies.

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Added on2026-03-04

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PMCC Scanner

Finds optimal Poor Man's Covered Call setups by scoring symbols on option chain quality.

What is PMCC?

Buy deep ITM LEAPS call (delta ~0.80) + Sell short-term OTM call (delta ~0.20) against it. Cheaper alternative to covered calls.

Instructions

Note: If
uv
is not installed or
pyproject.toml
is not found, replace
uv run python
with
python
in all commands below.

bash

uv run python scripts/scan.py SYMBOLS [options]

Arguments

```
SYMBOLS
```
- Comma-separated tickers or path to JSON file from bullish scanner
```
--min-leaps-days
```
- Minimum LEAPS expiration in days (default: 270 = 9 months)
```
--leaps-delta
```
- Target LEAPS delta (default: 0.80)
```
--short-delta
```
- Target short call delta (default: 0.20)
```
--output
```
- Save results to JSON file

Scoring System (max ~11 points)

Category	Condition	Points
Delta Accuracy	LEAPS within ±0.05	+2
	LEAPS within ±0.10	+1
	Short within ±0.05	+1
	Short within ±0.10	+0.5
Liquidity	LEAPS vol+OI > 100	+1
	LEAPS vol+OI > 20	+0.5
	Short vol+OI > 500	+1
	Short vol+OI > 100	+0.5
Spread	LEAPS spread < 5%	+1
	LEAPS spread < 10%	+0.5
	Short spread < 10%	+1
	Short spread < 20%	+0.5
IV Level	25-50% (ideal)	+2
	20-60%	+1
Yield	Annual > 50%	+2
	Annual > 30%	+1

Output

Returns JSON with:

```
criteria
```
- Scan parameters used
```
results
```
- Array sorted by score:
- ```
symbol
```
  ,
```
price
```
  ,
```
iv_pct
```
  ,
```
pmcc_score
```
- ```
leaps
```
  - expiry, strike, delta, bid/ask, spread%, volume, OI
- ```
short
```
  - expiry, strike, delta, bid/ask, spread%, volume, OI
- ```
metrics
```
  - net_debit, short_yield%, annual_yield%, capital_required
```
errors
```
- Symbols that failed (no options, insufficient data)

Examples