Every successful options trading strategy starts with clear goals and proper tracking configuration. The MyATMM platform provides essential preference settings that align the tracking system with your personal financial objectives and position sizing strategies. Understanding how to configure these settings ensures the platform delivers relevant analysis and projections tailored to your specific approach.
Beyond configuration, knowing how to provide feedback and report issues keeps the platform improving and ensures your voice shapes future development. Whether you encounter a technical bug that disrupts your workflow or have suggestions for features that would enhance your trading, the feedback mechanism connects users directly with the development team.
This comprehensive guide walks through the two currently available preference settings on MyATMM: target annual salary and target position cost. You'll learn what each setting controls, where these values appear throughout the platform, and how to adjust them based on your evolving trading goals. The second section covers the bug reporting and feedback process, ensuring you know how to communicate issues or suggestions effectively.
The target annual salary setting represents your income goal from option premium collection over a full year. This preference establishes the benchmark against which the platform measures your actual performance and calculates projections for whether you're on track to meet your objectives.
When you set a target annual salary in preferences, this value becomes the default goal used throughout the platform's projection and performance analysis tools. The number you enter should reflect realistic expectations based on your available capital, risk tolerance, and time commitment to managing positions.
For example, if you set a target annual salary of $75,000, you're establishing the benchmark that your option selling strategies collectively should generate $75,000 in premium income over the course of a year. The platform uses this target to calculate whether your current pace of premium collection puts you ahead of, on track with, or behind your goal.
The primary location where target annual salary appears is the Projections tab on the dashboard. This analysis section takes your year-to-date premium collection and compares it against your annual target, showing:
This projection analysis provides accountability and helps adjust your strategy mid-year if you're tracking behind your target or gives confidence when you're exceeding expectations.
While the preference sets the default value, the Projections tab allows temporary changes to explore different scenarios. You can type in alternative target numbers to see how different goals would affect your progress status without permanently changing your preference setting.
For instance, if your original target was $75,000 but you're considering whether $100,000 is achievable, you can temporarily change the projection to $100,000 to see the impact on your pace metrics. When you navigate away from the page and return, the preference value of $75,000 will automatically reload.
This flexibility lets you model different scenarios and adjust your trading intensity based on whether you need to accelerate premium collection to stay on pace.
The target position cost setting defines your standard position sizing for new trades. This preference establishes how much capital you're willing to allocate to a single ticker when selling cash-secured puts or evaluating potential covered call positions.
Target position cost represents the maximum dollar amount you want to deploy in a single underlying security. This position sizing discipline prevents overconcentration in any one ticker and ensures consistent capital allocation across your portfolio.
For example, setting a target position cost of $27,500 means you're comfortable allocating up to $27,500 of buying power to any individual stock position. This might represent 10-15% of a $200,000 portfolio, providing adequate diversification across multiple positions.
The target position cost preference populates on the covered calls and cash-secured puts analysis page. When you're researching potential trades on a new ticker, this setting automatically appears and drives calculations about how many contracts you can afford based on the current stock price.
The platform uses your target position cost to calculate:
For instance, if a stock trades at $45 per share and your target position cost is $27,500, the platform calculates that you can afford 6 contracts (600 shares × $45 = $27,000), staying within your target while maximizing position size.
Like target annual salary, the position cost setting allows temporary overrides on analysis pages. You might want to adjust position sizing based on:
Any temporary change on the analysis page doesn't affect your saved preference. When you leave the page and return, your default target position cost reloads automatically.
Conservative position sizing protects against catastrophic losses from any single position. Most professional options sellers limit individual positions to 5-15% of total portfolio value, with higher concentration only for the most liquid, stable underlying securities.
Your target position cost should consider both your total portfolio size and the number of different tickers you plan to trade simultaneously. If you have $150,000 allocated to options trading and want to maintain 6-8 active positions, setting a target position cost between $15,000-$25,000 provides reasonable diversification.
Portfolio Capital: $200,000
Target Number of Positions: 8
Calculated Position Cost: $200,000 ÷ 8 = $25,000
Setting Recommendation: Set target position cost at $25,000
This allows you to maintain 8 diversified positions of equal size, with each representing 12.5% of your total capital.
Understanding the mechanics of how preferences populate throughout the platform ensures you use them effectively to streamline your workflow.
When you save a preference setting, that value becomes the default that automatically loads whenever you access a page where that preference is relevant. This eliminates repetitive data entry and ensures consistency across your analysis sessions.
For target annual salary, this means every time you check your projections dashboard, your goal appears automatically without needing to re-enter it. For target position cost, this means every analysis page starts with your standard position sizing already configured.
Both preference settings allow in-page overrides for scenario analysis without permanently changing your defaults. When you type a different number on a projection or analysis page, that change applies only to your current session on that specific page.
The moment you navigate away from the page or refresh it, the saved preference value reloads. This behavior is intentional—it lets you experiment with different numbers for what-if analysis while preserving your actual targets.
You should return to the Preferences page and update your saved settings when:
Reviewing and adjusting preferences quarterly ensures they remain aligned with your current portfolio size, risk tolerance, and income objectives.
The Preferences page is accessible from the main navigation menu. Look for the Preferences link in the top navigation bar, which takes you directly to the configuration page where both current settings are displayed and editable.
Changes take effect immediately after saving. There's no need to log out and back in or refresh other pages—your new preference values will populate automatically the next time you visit a page where they're used.
Every software platform benefits from active user feedback. MyATMM includes a structured process for reporting bugs, suggesting enhancements, and asking questions that directly influence platform development priorities.
A bug represents unexpected behavior that prevents you from using the platform as intended. Common examples include:
If something prevents you from completing your normal workflow or produces results that don't make sense, that's worth reporting even if you're not certain it's a bug. The development team can investigate and determine whether it's a bug, a misunderstanding about how a feature works, or an area where documentation needs improvement.
The more detail you provide when reporting a bug, the faster the development team can reproduce, diagnose, and fix the issue. Effective bug reports include:
Issue: Premium total not updating after adding new transaction
Expected: After adding a $125 covered call transaction, total premium should increase by $125
Actual: Total premium remained unchanged at previous amount
Steps: 1) Navigated to BITO cost basis page, 2) Clicked "Add New Transaction", 3) Entered covered call details with $125 premium, 4) Clicked Save, 5) Total premium at bottom didn't update
Browser: Chrome on Windows 11
This level of detail gives developers everything they need to reproduce and fix the issue quickly.
Beyond bug reports, the development team welcomes suggestions for new features, improvements to existing functionality, and ideas for making the platform more useful for your specific trading approach.
Enhancement requests might include:
While not every suggestion can be implemented immediately, user feedback directly shapes the development roadmap. Features that multiple users request often receive priority in development planning.
The primary channel for bug reports, questions, and feedback is email. You can reach the MyATMM support team at support@myatmm.com.
When you email support, you can expect:
The support team treats every user interaction as valuable feedback that improves the platform for the entire community. Don't hesitate to reach out even for minor issues or simple questions—your input helps shape a better tool for all option sellers.
The Preferences page currently offers two core settings, but the platform roadmap includes additional customization options based on user feedback and common requests.
While timing isn't guaranteed, users can anticipate possible preference additions including:
As the platform evolves, the Preferences page will expand to include configuration options that streamline workflows and reduce repetitive data entry across various platform features.
If you find yourself repeatedly entering the same information across different pages or wishing certain values would remember your previous choices, that's a strong candidate for a new preference setting. Emailing suggestions about what should be configurable helps prioritize which preferences get developed first.
The Preferences page may be simple now with just two settings, but these two configurations have significant impact on your daily platform use. Target annual salary ensures your projection analysis reflects your actual income goals, providing meaningful accountability and pace tracking throughout the year. Target position cost establishes consistent position sizing discipline, helping you analyze new opportunities within your capital allocation framework.
Both preferences follow the same pattern: set once, use everywhere, override temporarily when needed. This design philosophy eliminates repetitive data entry while maintaining flexibility for scenario analysis and what-if exploration.
The bug reporting and feedback system ensures the platform continues improving based on real user needs. Whether you encounter a technical issue that disrupts your workflow or have ideas for features that would enhance your trading process, the development team wants to hear from you. Every bug report helps deliver a more stable platform, and every enhancement suggestion informs the development roadmap.
Understanding these platform fundamentals—how to configure your preferences and how to communicate with the development team—ensures you get maximum value from MyATMM while contributing to continuous improvement that benefits the entire user community.
Take five minutes to visit the Preferences page and verify your settings align with your current trading approach. Then bookmark the support email or save it in your contacts so you can quickly report issues or share ideas when they arise. These small actions ensure the platform works optimally for your specific needs while helping shape its evolution over time.
This article describes software features and configuration options. While the examples reference options trading strategies, this content focuses on platform functionality rather than trading advice.
Setting target income goals and position sizes should align with your individual financial situation, risk tolerance, and investment objectives. The platform provides tracking and analysis tools but does not make trading recommendations or guarantee investment outcomes.
This content is for educational purposes only and should not be considered financial advice.
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