What's New in Option Alpha

New trade controls, Price Target exit option, assignment detection, position sizing options and more

New controls added to the position screen while a trade is active

  • Pause at the current price for 15 minutes
  • Move forward to the next price  
  • Quickly cancel and retry with existing trade settings
  • Bid/ask and mid price are displayed while the trade is executing so you can see if you need to adjust trade pricing
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New Price Target exit option

Automatically close positions when the price reaches your target price. Like the Profit Taking exit option, your bot will not trade for a price worse than your target price.

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Auto detect missing and/or assigned positions and receive a notification

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Added Option Alpha Pulse

An experimental new screen in OA Labs to stay up to date with the trading activity within the OA platform. Visualize current sentiment and find new trade ideas by reviewing the trending trades made over the past 3 days.

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Progressive position sizing in bots and the backtester

Use negative and positive progression strategies to maximize profitability.

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Set a maximum size for positions based on a % of capital in bots and the backtester

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Additional updates worth mentioning...

  • Check a bot's winning or losing streak in a decision
  • Added NVRP to the opportunity decision recipe
  • New decision recipe to check a symbol's liquidity in an automation
  • New decision recipe to check if a position has been open more than / less than x minutes
  • New decision recipe to check if bot already has a position with a matching expiration
  • Filter by symbol on "Open Positions" screen
  • Added underlying price at open/close to the position screen
  • Added a new bot safeguard to block PDT within a bot
  • New columns added to the main bots list

New trade controls, Price Target exit option, assignment detection, position sizing options and more

May 5, 2025
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