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VXX and UVXY are now available for autotrading. These volatility ETFs provide exposure to the VIX short-term futures index.

The latest update includes two new decision recipes for targeting past earnings dates.

The January 2023 platform release includes new stats and charts to give you upgraded visual tools when monitoring your bots’ activity and key metrics.

In-app help docs and the new 'Get Started' checklist will guide you around Option Alpha to find everything you need to know as an autotrader.

The latest upgrade to Exit Options now supports custom SmartPricing settings for each scenario, plus we added the ability to send Market Orders if you choose.

Create Presets for your Exit Options to quickly reuse custom settings for long and short option positions.

Trade Ideas calculate probabilities for millions of potential options positions using live market data so you can make smarter trades.

The first major platform release of the year is here! Check out all the updates, including the all-new Trade Ideas.

Learn how you can get a free Option Alpha Pro+ account when connecting your qualified Tradier Brokerage account.

How has market volatility impacted intraday mean reversion and trend following strategies? We analyzed the first trading hour in SPY to understand intraday mean reversion vs. trend following signals.

Introducing faster position management! Pre-set your exit options when opening a position and let automation manage your position every minute.

Manual trading is getting a huge upgrade. We reimagined the user experience of manual trading to solve problems and simplify your life.

New, interconnected bot logs show you exactly what's happening in your bots and automations. Right where you need them.

The backtester now includes expanded settings so you have even more precision when testing your options strategies.

Every position now includes an interactive real-time option payoff diagram that uses live pricing to update key metrics and probabilities, so there's no guesswork on your position's current status.

You now have expanded criteria for researching option strategies so you can customize your ideas with more detail.

Announcing $0 commission-free trading for Option Alpha members using TradeStation in the autotrading platform.

Option Alpha announces $0 commission-free trading through our exclusive agreement with Tradier Brokerage.

A step-by-step guide to help you manage position assignments with bots.

We analyzed over 25,000 0DTE option positions traded in the autotrading platform to assess what worked and how traders set up short-term trading strategies.

The wheel strategy is a popular options strategy investors can use to generate income selling options and potentially owning stock. Learn how to trade the options wheel strategy.

Learn how to automate a strategy that sells credit spreads when the MACD indicator signals an overbought or oversold condition.

Unlock new autotrading opportunities with these two decision recipes that evaluate a symbol's open, high, low, or closing price using a specific look-back period.

Option Alpha’s new ‘Backtest to Bot’ feature lets you instantly create an automated trading strategy from any backtest in our database.

Creating a bot has never been easier! The new bot wizard helps you go from idea to automated strategy in a few simple steps.

Learn how to build an automated Bollinger Band bot using debit and credit spreads to trade breakouts.

We studied over 20,000 trades to measure the average time between return extremes over the life of a trade. From all that data and research, see what stands out.

Crowdsource options backtests like never before. Share strategies, upvote performance results, and comment on backtests in the Community.

We’ve improved the bot dashboard significantly in the latest platform update. The equity P/L graph is enhanced so you can now view more detailed bot performance stats. Plus, you can edit your closed positions and order history.

Easily discover and explore targeted Community conversations on specific topics in four main categories.

Two new updates improve sequencing so you have more control. Bots now have more intelligent decision timing when looping symbols and running automations.

We’ve upgraded standard deviation properties so you can use decimal precision for pinpoint accuracy.

We’ve expanded the way you can select strike prices. There are now four options for choosing a strike price, so you always have pinpoint accuracy and control of your positions.

Edit automation paths with negated decisions to save time and increase flexibility.

Intelligently manage your positions with this new decision recipe that evaluates return on risk to exit positions at defined targets.

With this platform update, you have even more control of your bots' event automations. You can now automatically check in on your automations and positions at the beginning and end of every trading day.

You can now compare multiple backtests side-by-side to see exactly how they stack up to each other for unparalleled strategy development.

Now you can split automation decisions using a recipe to evaluate if the underlying ticker symbol is a stock or an ETF.

Investors expect interest rates to rise this year. We studied four similar environments to deliver the context you need for today’s market.

20 years of data suggests this bull market may not be over yet, and the positive momentum could continue into the new year.

We are sending invites to traders on the Waitlist! Share the news, get to the front of the line, and start autotrading!

Four new decision recipes help you reference a bot’s trade history and active orders. Find out what this means for you and your bots!

Now you can create, add, and remove bot and position tags to take your automations to a whole new level.

Discover how to automate a popular swing trading strategy that opens bullish and bearish credit spreads based on RSI value.

Bot errors are divided into two categories to help you identify soft and fatal errors and troubleshoot their impact on your portfolio.

Check out these new updates that are all about improving your experience.

Bot switches make your automations more flexible by allowing you to turn parts of an automation on or off.

You can now import positions from your brokerage account into Option Alpha for your bots to manage!

SmartStops are not your traditional trailing stop. SmartStops are a proprietary feature that can change the way you exit positions. Learn how SmartStops can be a game-changer for your portfolio.

Tradier is now available for live trading access! Plus, when you connect your account, you'll enjoy exclusive pricing on all trades.

The automations library now gives you more organization and customization in your portfolio.

Create and customize in-app notifications to alert you of specific market and bot activity in real-time.

We’ve made it incredibly easy for you to group all your automations inside your library. Discover how folders will help you organize your portfolio.

Using our Backtester, we explored the historical performance of SPY put credit spreads to help determine the entry and exit criteria that best fit your trading objectives.

Reusable automations are a powerful tool that enables you to use a single automation across multiple bots simultaneously.

TradeStation is now available for live trading access! Plus, when you connect your account, you'll enjoy exclusive pricing on all trades.

Automate your trend following strategy with these two decision recipes that reference multiple moving averages when filtering opportunities.

Leverage the power of bots to automate your strategies, scan for trading opportunities based on multiple market conditions, and open new positions when your criteria are met.

VIX and SPX tail risk pricing is astronomically high compared to before the pandemic. What has happened to the price of downside protection? Find out here.

Collaborating on your trading strategy has never been easier. You can now share automations in the Community, save an automation to your library, modify its decisions, and instantly add it to a bot of your choice.

Do you want to avoid trading when certain stocks are in a downtrend? Use a simple moving average decision recipe to filter for new position opportunities.

Test your bot’s automations directly inside the automation editor to see how your logic performs in live market conditions.

The Automation Editor just got a lot better. Now you can customize your automations with improved “choose your path” flexibility.

Learn how the strike price selection process is enhanced with our new platform update. It’s never been easier to choose the right contract!

New bot-level decisions give you more capital and position flexibility when building bots.

New scanner and monitor automation ordering gives you even more customization options for your bots. Check it out!

See how this VIX hedging strategy performed during the Pandemic Crash and learn how portfolio hedging can protect against black swan events.

We answer five key research questions about bid-ask spread volatility and explain how these answers can threaten or inform your trading decisions.

Order controls got a major upgrade in our latest platform update. Keep reading to learn about all the new improvements!

SmartPricing is Option Alpha’s proprietary technology that uses timed intervals to dynamically adjust pricing to optimize your entries and exits.

The new bot template versioning update keeps your freshest ideas in the spotlight.

What is the "personality" of your favorite ticker? Do you know what the bid-ask spread of the specific underlyings you trade should resemble? Learn about bid-ask spread expectations here.

Are you getting better at investing? Find out how to challenge your status quo and improve your investment process.

Learn how bid-ask spread anomalies bring unique risks and opportunities in options trading with this SPY case study.

This case study examines the intraday price volatility of a TLT iron condor to illustrate the forces at play beyond the options Greeks affecting a position's bid-ask spread.

Do you manually check a stock's price movement before placing an order? Use this simple but powerful decision recipe to reference a symbol’s price change when making automated trading decisions inside a bot.

Do you use multiple multiple indicators when evaluating new trading opportunities? Learn how to use And/Or decision criteria to group recipes in an automation.

Do you evaluate more than one set of market conditions before entering a new trade? This video shows how grouping and nesting decisions create flexible bots with dynamic automations.

Does your portfolio have multiple strategy types? Learn how to use monitor automations to manage different positions inside a bot.

Learn when you should use and/or functionality to group multiple decisions together, and when you should separate and analyze individual criteria before moving through an automation.

You don’t need to continuously enter the same information over and over across multiple automations. Learn how to use custom inputs to add flexibility and efficiency to any bot.

Misconceptions surround automated trading, and automation does not bring with it a guaranteed edge. What are the real benefits of automation, and what does automation mean for you?

If you want to avoid expiration, automations can use a decision recipe to automatically exit an options position a defined number of days before expiration if no exit criteria have been met.

Use bots to identify trending stocks and automate the trade entry process using multiple moving averages.

Stop using manual trade orders. Start automating your profit targets and stop-loss exits with this simple decision recipe.

Let your bot scan the market for high volatility before entering new positions. Add a global VIX filter to any automation to quickly check if market volatility is above a defined level.

Finding new trading ideas is hard work. Here is a list of five simple and helpful tips to help you identify options trading opportunities.

Many traders are concerned about their short options contracts near expiration. Here is a guide to better understand the probability of your short option being assigned.

Check out this deep-in-the-money ETF options trading strategy.

Option liquidity is one of the most important factors to weigh when looking for new trading opportunities. Here is a detailed list of why option liquidity is vital to your trading.

There is still a lot that can be learned from historical investors and traders. Here is a list of 19 great quotes from famous investors.

When should you hold a position and when should you cut losses? Learn to control your emotions and exit trades before they become big losers that blow up your account.

It's fairly easy to blow up your trading account. Too often, traders (both advanced and beginner) allocate way too much to a single trade. Here is a simple formula to determine how many options contracts you should trade.

Every year I contact my broker to negotiate lower commission rates for my options trading. I’ve done this consistently every year, and each time I have successfully secured a savings.

We need to remember that we are trading in a random marketplace. Just because charts are easy to read and look visually appealing, doesn’t make them future predictors of stock movement. You may never need to look at a stock chart again.

If you want to trade options, you're going to have to pay commissions. Like any other business, trading has costs. But there are ways to reduce the cost of commissions and boost your overall returns.

In addition to the variety of monthly contracts available, many underlying stocks now offer weekly options. These weekly options can be employed in various trading strategies to manage both the theta and delta risk associated with options expiration. Here are four ways to trade weekly options in your portfolio.

Position sizing is subjective -- what may be right for one trader might be too much for another. But you should have some risk management in place, so I put together this very quick guide on proper position sizing.

Covered calls can help generate income and mitigate losses when the market declines Protective puts can help protect against adverse market moves. Here are four rules to help you in a bear market.