The one rival that already gets the option lifecycle right, and gives it away.
TickerScribe is the closest thing this category has to a correct free journal. It chains rolls with their cumulative premium, handles assignment, exercise and expiration in one click each, lands assigned shares in a stock ledger at the right basis, and it is the only product in our whole audit that explicitly recognises cash settled index roots and suppresses the phantom share position every other importer invents. If lifecycle correctness is what you came for, it is already solved, for nothing.
Their FAQ commits that the current feature set stays free even if premium features arrive later. We charge $24 a month for the stored ledger.
Interactive Brokers, thinkorswim, Schwab, Fidelity, Robinhood, TradeStation, tastytrade, Webull, Alpaca, Wealthsimple, Trade Republic, E*TRADE and M1, with a universal mapper behind them. We read five.
Delta, gamma, theta, vega and IV on both ends of a position, for every underlying. Ours are computed at the fill and only for index options, because only there can we get the index level at that minute.
Premiums, commissions and assignments each get their own entry and P&L falls out of balancing entries, which is a more auditable model than ours.
Section 1256 against Form 8949, split by underlying, with the year end marks named where an export cannot supply them. A keyword scan of TickerScribe's homepage and options feature page for 1256, 8949, wash sale, TurboTax and tax returns zero hits.
Clustered by trading session, and refused below five sessions. They report win rate as a number, like everyone else.
For SPX, SPXW and XSP, from a public archive going back to April 2022. Nobody else has this because nobody else publishes one.
Six read only tools over your own ledger, so an assistant can read it. They have no API of any kind.
| TickerScribe | FillStub | |
|---|---|---|
| Rolls chained to their parent | yes | yes |
| Assignment, exercise, expiration | yes | yes |
| Index options recognised as cash settled | yes | yes |
| Share lots at the right basis from an assigned put | yes | yes |
| Greeks | at open and close, every underlying | at the fill, index options |
| Section 1256 and Form 8949 | no | yes |
| Wash sales matched | no | matched, not carried forward |
| An interval on every statistic | no | yes |
| Dealer positioning at your fill | no | SPX, SPXW, XSP |
| MCP for an assistant | no | yes |
| Brokers read | 13 plus a column mapper | 5 |
| Accounts | 3 | unlimited on paid |
| Price | free | $24 a month, free tier in the browser |
Read from TickerScribe's own site and documentation on 2026-09-06. "unclear" means we could not confirm it either way, which is not the same as no.
If you want a correct free journal and do not file US taxes on this trading, take TickerScribe. It is better than us at the thing it does and it costs nothing. Come here when the tax return is the problem, when you want to know whether a win rate is real, or when you trade SPX and want to see the book you traded into.
Our own prices: the free tool needs no account and no card, Solo is $24 a month, and Desk is $49. What is in each tier.