Start your day with a custom news brief, explore ideas in the Community, and backtest options strategies.
Build your own custom options and equity strategies or choose a bot template to customize.
Bots automate repetitive trading tasks so you can focus on higher-level strategy optimization to scale your portfolio.
Option Alpha was built so you never have to learn how to code anything to use it.
Our tech stack lives in the cloud so we're always up, always on, ready to scale.
We conform to the most stringent industry standards to protect you.
You have complete control and can see everything your bot does at all times.
Control exactly how much risk you give to a bot or each position you enter.
Limit bots on the number of positions it can enter each day and/or in total.
Our crowdsourced strategy performance rankings help you find new ideas.
React faster to market movements and avoid missed opportunities that cost money.
Start with pre-built bot templates so you don't have to build strategies from scratch.
Let bots process millions of data points and prices faster than you ever could.
Use simple, natural language decision recipes to tell your bot what to do.
Our powerful automation editor gives you infinite flexibility with bot actions.
Clone bots or automations quickly and easily with just one-click.
Go ahead, have fun with your bots and give them names and custom icons.
Bots can filter market data and pricing to find the perfect trading opportunities.
Test your automation and bot actions to validate it's working the way you want.
Add notes, images, or links to your bot templates to keep tabs on your strategy.
Keep all your automations neatly organized with folders inside your personal Library.
One-click sharing of your bot template, privately or publicly, to the community.
Run any automation in your bot instantly if needed for a one-off scenario.
Run automations on any recurring schedule you can think of.
Schedule an automation to run on a specific date and time in the future.
Trigger automations to run only when bots open or close a position.
Save any automation to your Library and reuse them in other bots.
Create custom watchlists or use curated ones to keep tabs on your favorite tickers.
Scan for and trigger trades based on popular technical indicators.
And/or decisions are a breeze and can even be grouped together.
Pull earnings dates and decide to avoid or trade around earnings announcements.
Every decision, every trade, every automation, all the data, is in the logs.
You're not alone here with more than 250k traders around the world in our family.
Get updates and bot templates from traders you choose to follow.
Send private messages to your trading friends in the community.
Start a private group message with friends and share trading ideas or bot templates.
Save your favorite discussions or bot templates so they never get lost.
We fixed the way you consume news so it's actionable and curated just for you.
We support multiple account types (IRA, Cash/Margin, Roth, etc.) from one login.
Use our in-house paper trading engine to test any strategy before you go live.
Really? You still want to trade manually? Okay we've got that too if you need it.
Avoid over allocating or trading too much with position and bot limits.
Create custom inputs that become dynamic variable fields for automations.
Notifications for all the activity in your account so you know what's going on.
Quickly update, tweak, or change anything inside your bots in seconds.
Use our backtesting engine to test your ideas before live trading them.
Want to see exactly what data was used by the bot to make each decision? You got it.
Test different combinations of position and portfolio allocations to optimize strategies.
Always see the hottest discussions and bot templates shared inside the community.
Award-winning education and training is the foundation of our platform.
We never cut corners with support and real humans are here to help you anytime.