Maintaining an active integration between your brokerage account and Option Alpha is always required. In addition, Tradier requires you to fund your account with at least $5,000 and maintain a minimum account balance of $3,000 in cash or positions, and TradeStation requires you to maintain a minimum account balance of $10,000 in cash or positions. If your balance falls below the required minimums, a notice will be sent asking to raise the account back to the minimum qualification or risk termination. There is no need to pay in advance or submit anything for reimbursement; it’s all handled for you automatically (as any true automated trading platform should).

Yes, 100%. You can paper trade as much as you want right inside Option Alpha without having to connect to a brokerage. Paper trading allows you to test your bot’s strategy risk-free

We generate revenue through recurring subscriptions to our platform and software. We don't get paid commissions for order flow or based on how much you trade.

Option Alpha is not a broker. We are a software service provider. We do not charge you commissions of any kind.

Yes, you can cancel at any time and there are never any contract commitments.

We offer a clear refund policy for our traders. This is on top of our full-featured 30-day free trial. Your subscription remains active for the remainder of your paid billing period. Annual plans are refundable within 7 calendar days of an automatic renewal billing.

We understand that things change. Rest easy knowing there are never any contracts or commitments, and you can cancel at any time. In fact, we make it easy to cancel your subscription with one-click inside your billing profile.

Purchasing a Pro plan enables you to trade with any of our supported brokers.

If your plan is paid for through a broker promo plan, all your live trading must be through the broker connected to your qualifying account.

No, if your membership is paid for on behalf of your brokerage, you'll be required to do all your Option Alpha trading through that broker partner. To connect additional brokers, you can upgrade to a Pro plan here.

Yes! Commission-free* trading through Tradier and TradeStation is available for traders in the United States and internationally. All traders sending their orders to Tradier and TradeStation through Option Alpha are eligible for $0 commissions*.

Not at this time. Currently, the platform is only intended for use by Retail, non-professional investors as defined by the NYSE.

No. Unfortunately at this time there are no active broker integrations that support Canadian traders. However, you can still use Option Alpha for backtesting, finding new trade ideas, and paper trading options strategies while using email notifications to help alert you to trades you can place manually.

Call/email/tweet/message your broker and request an integration! If there is a broker you want supported, the best thing you can do is help us push them to integrate. Most brokers we'd love to connect with either do not offer a public API yet and/or have legacy API technology that cannot handle autotrading. Our goal is to support as many brokers as possible. Anything you can do to help push them along from you end helps us move faster. Please request an integration using the links on the Broker Integrations page. We will continue to announce new agreements with additional brokerage partners as they are signed and confirmed.

Nope. Option Alpha does not have access to any of your credit card information. Payments and billing is always managed through secure merchant gateways with our payment providers.

You can easily edit your payment method inside your account profile. You can change or update credit cards at any time. If you want to switch to PayPal from a credit card please contact us to help as PayPal requires a slightly different process.

Once the cancelation is effective at the end of your next subscription period, all bots will automatically be turned off. You will then have 30 days to reactivate and restore your account if you want to save your bot templates and automations. During this time, all active positions will need to be managed in your broker application.

We'll work together to get it updated so there's no interruption in your service. You will receive a series of emails to notify you of the expired card and can easily update the card information securely inside your billing profile. You will not lose your account but during this time, you will not have the ability to create new bots or modify existing bots. After 30 days if you have not updated your card, your account will be canceled and deactivated.

Yes, your subscription will automatically with the same payment method you used to upgrade to ensure there is no unnecessary interruption in your bots or account. Monthly subscriptions are renewed on the same day every month as they began. If you have an active annual subscription, you will be billed automatically on the anniversary date of the initial subscription.

We have several forms of payments available, including PayPal, ApplePay, VISA, Mastercard, American Express, Discover, JCB, and Diners Club.

Of course. Our plans can scale with you as you get more comfortable with Option Alpha and your trading needs grow. At any time, you can upgrade to the next level and we'll just prorate the difference automatically for you upon upgrading.