What's New in Option Alpha

October 2024

Backtest your ideas with the all new 0DTE Backtester!

Backtest, compare and combine 0DTE and next day trading opportunities with 1 minute historical data.

  • Generate a bot to trade your strategy automatically directly from a backtest
  • Compare and combine backtests results
  • Share backtests publicly outside of Option Alpha
  • Full transparency including position filtering and exit reasons
  • Flexible entry and exit criteria including indicators, price range, profit taking, touch and more
  • Monthly P/L and stats breakdown

The old backtester is still available here but will be removed at some time in the future.

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Updated Smart Pricing options to improve trade fill prices

  • Combine multiple Final Price options to automatically choose the best option available in that moment
  • Allow slippage based on typically live trading slippage for the selected symbol
  • Automatically defend against wide bid/ask spreads by combining % of bid/ask with slippage from the mid price
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New Exit Option to test for position "touch"

Automatically close challenged positions before or after they go in-the-money

  • Use a fixed $ amount or % of underlying price
  • Use a negative value to close the position when it is ITM a specific amount
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Additional updates worth mentioning...

  • Clone older template versions in the community
  • Use a custom time for repeating and date scheduled automations
  • Automatic check for conflicting legs in the same brokerage account
  • Positions stuck in an error state automatically time out in 15 minutes
  • Decision option to check for Nonfarm Payroll dates
  • Added "Symbol" filter to position loop action
  • Easy to read display of position and opportunity legs
  • Added scheduled time to bot automations list

What's New - October 2024

October's platform release features an all new backtester to compare and combine 0DTE and next day trading opportunities with 1 minute historical data, and automatically create a bot from any backtest.
Trade with Conviction
Find an edge backtesting 0DTE and next day strategies using 1 minute data then leverage automation to execute your strategy better than humanly possible.
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