Every alert on your Copy Trade page can be turned into a ready-to-post picture, the same kind of profit card the Sharing a Trade feature makes — except this one is written from your side of the trade. It doesn't say I took this trade. It says I alerted this trade, with the price you called and the price you called the exit at.
It carries two QR codes: one that opens the StaxInvesting pricing page with two weeks free, and one that opens your strategy's public track record.
Where to find it
On the Copy Trade page, every alert has a small Share button:
- in card view, on the top line of the card, after the status badges
- in list view, in the Status column, as a small share icon
It works on open alerts and finished ones.
Note
The button is greyed out until the alert has a price to compare against. On a brand-new alert that means waiting a few seconds for the first live price to arrive.
What the picture says
| The claim | I ALERTED THIS TRADE across the top — or I JUST ALERTED THIS while it's still open |
| The contract | e.g. SPY 9/18 580C, or XSP 10/9 Iron Condor for a spread |
| STO / BTO | A badge before the contract saying which way you opened it — gold STO for sold, blue BTO for bought |
| The side | Long Call, Short Put, Credit Spread — whichever you called |
| The result | ALERT RESULT and the percentage, or OPEN ALERT while it's live |
| What happened | One line per event: Alerted 9:42 AM ET at $0.30, then We exited 2:00 PM ET at $0.15 (or Trading at $0.42 · open 4h 32m, while it's live) |
Example
You alert 2 Ford 10/16 $15 calls as a sell-to-open at $0.30 and buy them back at $0.15. The picture reads STO, F 10/16 15C, Short Call, ALERT RESULT, +50.00%, Alerted at $0.30, We exited at $0.15 — because for a sold option the premium falling is the win.
Note
The badge matters most on your best days: SPY 9/18 764P with an exit of $0.00 looks like a total loss until the gold STO tells a reader you sold it and kept the whole premium. Spreads don't get a badge — a credit spread is a net rather than one contract you opened, and its first line already says Alerted credit.
Choosing what's shown
The panel beside the preview lets you decide what goes on the picture:
- Show the result as: a percentage, a dollar amount, or both. Percentage is the default, and it's the better choice: the dollars are your size, and someone copying you at a different size gets a different number.
- Ticker — turn it off and the picture leads with your strategy name instead of the contract
- Strike & expiration — off shows just the symbol, like SPY instead of SPY 9/18 580C
- Alerted & exit prices
- Alert & exit times, shown in New York time and marked ET
- Your thesis — the note you wrote on the alert, set under your record
- Date — adds Wed, Oct 7 beside I ALERTED THIS TRADE across the top. With it on, the times below read as just the clock (9:42 AM ET); with it off, each time carries its own date instead, so the picture is never undated.
- Strategy name
- Number of contracts
- Best price it reached — a small Peak +142.40% badge beside the result
- This month's record and All-time record — your wins, losses and win rate, as two small panels
- Join QR — two weeks free
- Track-record QR — your strategy page
Your choices are remembered for next time, separately from your choices on the Sharing a Trade pictures.
Note
If you choose a dollar amount, the picture prints a line under it reading On my 2 contracts — yours depends on your own size. That line can't be turned off. A posted dollar figure is a claim about results, and it has to be clear whose results it is.
Note
If an alert didn't record how many contracts you took, the dollar choices are greyed out and the picture shows a percentage only. There's no honest dollar figure to print for a size that was never stated.
Which way you opened it
Every single-leg alert carries a small badge before the contract: gold STO when you sold to open, blue BTO when you bought. They match the colours of Short Put and Long Call on the line underneath.
Both sides are badged on purpose. If only the sold ones were marked, you'd have to know the rule to read the absence of a badge on everything else.
When it expires worthless
If you sold a contract and it went out at $0.00, the card doesn't say "we exited at $0.00" — it says Expired worthless, in the win colour.
That's not decoration. A $0.00 exit is the single most misread number this card can print: to anyone who doesn't already know you sold the contract, zero looks like a total loss, when it's actually the best result available to you. The gold STO badge up top says the same thing, and this says it again where the number is.
Example
You sell 75 SPY 764 puts for $0.31 and they expire out of the money. The card reads +100.00%, Alerted 9:42 AM ET at $0.31, Expired worthless 4:00 PM ET.
Note
A bought contract going to zero is the opposite — a 100% loss — so it reads as an ordinary exit at $0.00. Same number, opposite meaning, which is exactly why the card checks which side you were on.
Your thesis
If you wrote a thesis on the alert, ticking Your thesis sets it above your record panels, in quieter type so it doesn't fight the picture.
Long ones are shortened to about three lines, cut at a word so it never ends mid-word. If you turn it on, it's added to the suggested caption too — right under the result, which is the part of a post people actually reply to.
Note
The box is greyed out on an alert you didn't write a thesis for.
Your track record
Tick either record box and the picture gains a small panel reading something like 14W / 5L · 73.7% — your wins, your losses, and your win rate.
- This month's record is the calendar month the alert belongs to, named on the panel (OCT 2026) rather than labelled "this month". A picture gets re-shared, and "this month" stops being true the moment it does.
- All-time record is every alert the strategy has ever closed.
Both are counted exactly the way your marketplace listing counts them, so the number on the picture always matches the number a shopper sees on your listing. Break-even trades count as trades but not as wins, which nudges the rate down slightly — that is deliberate, and it is the same arithmetic in both places.
Note
Both are off until you turn them on, and a box is greyed out when there's nothing to count — a month in which nothing closed, for instance.
Tip
The all-time record is the stronger one for reaching people who have never heard of you. One good trade is a screenshot; a win rate across hundreds of alerts is a reason to subscribe.
The two QR codes
Copy my trades — two weeks free lands on the StaxInvesting pricing page, where the free-trial button is. It carries your referral code, so anyone who signs up from it shows Referred by you. If they skip the trial and pick a plan outright, the same link gets them 20% off their first month instead.
My full track record lands on your strategy's page on the public alert tracker — every alert you've ever published, with no login needed. It carries your referral code too, so somebody who scans it to check your receipts today and subscribes next week is still credited to you.
Tip
Leading with the track record converts better than leading with an offer. Both codes are on the picture, so a reader can start with whichever they want.
If your alerts go to a Shot Caller Challenge scoreboard rather than to subscribers, the track-record QR is turned off and can't be switched on. A Challenge scoreboard is private, so there's no public page for it to open.
The designs
There are nine designs for a winning alert and nine for a losing one, exactly the same set the Sharing a Trade pictures use — minus the two that draw a copy of a portal trade card, which don't fit an alert. When you press Share, three are ready straight away; press More designs to see the rest. Different alerts start with different designs, and the same alert always starts with the same ones.
Around holidays you may also see a Seasonal design at the front of the list.
If a design has been made around your own artwork, there may be one for a winner and a different one for a loser, so the picture always matches the result.
Designs made for you
If a design has been commissioned around your own strategy's artwork, it sits at the front of the row badged Yours only and is picked for you when the window opens. Nobody else can produce that card — it is offered on your alerts and nowhere else, not even on your own trades. Ask if you'd like one made.
Open alerts
An open alert keeps moving while you're choosing a design, so the picture is frozen at the moment you pressed Share. The panel shows the time it was taken. Press Refresh to bring it up to the latest price.
What it never shows
An alert isn't a position on anybody's account — it's a price you broadcast. So the picture never carries a broker name, never carries a "verified" seal, and is never marked as a paper trade. None of those would be true of an alert, whatever you were doing in your own account at the time.
Saving and posting
Under the preview:
- Save image downloads the picture. It always works.
- Copy image puts it on your clipboard so you can paste it straight into a post.
- Share… on a phone opens the normal share sheet for Instagram, X and so on.
Below those is a suggested caption written in your voice — I alerted SPY 9/18 580C on StaxInvesting today — with both links and the free-first-month code for your strategy. Edit it to sound like you, then press Copy caption. Reset puts the original back.
The caption only repeats what the picture shows. Turn the prices off and they disappear from the caption too.
Tip
Post the caption with the picture. A picture can't hold a clickable link, so the caption is what gets people to the site.
Every picture and caption carries a short line of fine print: Past performance is not indicative of future results. Not investment advice. Trading involves risk.
The picture is 1440 × 1000, a wide shape that looks good on X, Facebook, Discord and in text messages.
Tip
To promote your strategy's whole track record rather than one alert, see Sharing a Strategy. For your own trades rather than your alerts, see Sharing a Trade.