Why I Built SOTOM?

I'm George Tang, founder of SOTOM, State of the Options Market.

I started building SOTOM in December 2025 after purchasing historical options data in 2023 and spending 2 years digging through it. I wanted to understand what the options market could tell me that I wasn't seeing in stock prices alone: where investors were taking risk, where they were paying for protection, and how those patterns were changing over time.

The charts and tools on SOTOM grew out of that research. They're tools I built because I wanted to use them myself. They've given me new ways to look at companies, evaluate opportunities, and generate investment ideas.

SOTOM isn't a stock-picking service, and I make no promises of what you will earn in the future. I'm giving subscribers access to the same data, visualizations, and ways of looking at the options market that I personally use.

A Small Subscriber Base, By Design

SOTOM currently has only a handful of subscribers, and I'm not trying to acquire as many subscribers as possible.

I'd rather have a smaller group of serious investors who genuinely use the product. That also means I can talk directly with subscribers, hear what they're looking for, and continue building SOTOM around problems that actual investors care about.

As SOTOM becomes more useful and the amount of data and analysis available grows, I will raise the subscription price. At the start of 2026, the price of a subscription was $50 per month.

If you pay attention to what the data means in the context of other analyses, you'll find that the subscription can save thousands of dollars to millions of dollars.

I want the people who supported SOTOM early to benefit from having taken that chance on me. As long as you maintain your subscription, your original subscription price will be grandfathered in. If I raise prices for new subscribers in the future, your price stays the same.

That's one of the ways I want to reward the people who helped make SOTOM possible early on.

I'm building SOTOM for the long term, and I want the relationship with subscribers to reflect that.

As of September 1, 2026, I have 9 subscribers in total, mostly friends and friends of friends.

I hope you too can join us on our investment journey. Click here to signup.

Best,
George