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Webhooks allow us to connect our Option Alpha bots to external platforms and trigger automations using custom trading signals, technical indicators, email alerts, and more.

Use webhooks to connect your Option Alpha account to your email service to automatically trigger automations using email-based trading alerts.

Webhooks allow us to connect our Option Alpha account with TradingView alerts to automatically trigger an automation using custom indicators.

Learn how to write a Python script to run a custom Linear Regression Slope indicator and trigger automations in Option Alpha.

We're excited to shine a spotlight on Keith, an experienced and generous trader committed to helping and supporting others in the Option Alpha community.

May's release features a major update to the tickers screen, including future price projections, key data for option expirations, a new interactive payoff diagram, enhanced earnings stats, and more.

AAPL reports earnings Thursday, May 2nd. Analysts estimate AAPL will beat expectations with earnings growth of $1.40 EPS on $84.12b revenue.

AMZN reports earnings Tuesday, April 30th, after the market closes. Analysts estimate earnings growth with $0.83 EPS on $142.48b revenue.

TSLA reports earnings Tuesday, April 23rd, after the market closes. Analysts estimate earnings growth with $0.51 EPS on $21.27b revenue.

April's release includes Scanner updates, new Trade Idea filters, an upgraded event calendar, improved bot watchlist filters, bot groups, new decisions, and more.

Analyst projections for 8 major bank stocks reporting Q1 earnings this week, plus key stats and historical performance from the last five years announcements.

DAL reports earnings Wednesday, April 10th, before market open. Analysts estimate earnings growth with $0.35 EPS on $12.94b revenue.

The Final Four kicks off this weekend, so we took a data-driven look at the NCAA March Madness bracket and options trading to uncover what has higher EV.

The new 'Tagged Symbols' input enables us to loop through our tagged symbols inside an automation and link the input to a Find Trade Idea action.

Create and share multiple custom watchlists that can be used throughout the platform, including in Bot Symbols. With Bot Symbols, bots sort and filter the selected watchlist automatically before every scan to produce a list of symbols.

Evaluate your bot position's aggregate beta weight, beta exposure, and total delta in real-time with new decisions that improve automated portfolio management.

The newest platform release makes it much easier to update our cloned bots to the newest template version inside the bot's settings.

A new setting enables traders to schedule scanner automations on specific days and times for increased control when running bots.

We've released a brand new decision to compare a position's breakeven price to the underlying symbol's current price.

The newest platform release features OA Labs with earnings stats and price forecasting, plus new decision recipes, bot updates and more.

The new platform release includes personalized and shareable watchlists, custom bot symbols, bot decision stats, conditional automation actions, new scanner scheduling options, updated UI, and more.

We use Super Bowl LVIII betting odds and historical results to highlight the similarities between sports betting and options trading.

Three new decision actions give you the power to check your position's moneyness -- and by how much it's in or out of the money -- inside any automation.

It's now incredibly easy and efficient to quickly reset your bot's symbols and tags directly in the bot dashboard.

You can now toggle your automation switches directly from the bot inputs window in your bot's settings. Quickly and easily turn your switches on and off with one click.

Supercharge your bots to scan a 25 ticker custom watchlist, manage 25 positions automatically, and run continuous automations so you never miss an opportunity.

Option Alpha's January platform release includes all-new supercharging, options moneyness decision recipes, and more user-friendly updates traders will love.

Our newest research analyzes the accuracy of probabilities across varying sample sizes to help options traders better understand how probability theory impacts success.

A new setting lets you control how many Exit Option order attempts can be sent to your broker in a day, to help avoid being labeled as a professional trader.

The new bot archive function lets you keep bots in your autotrading portfolio and restore them, including all their position history and automations.

Two new decision recipes enable traders to check bot and position beta weight for dynamic portfolio management.

Option Alpha's Trade Ideas now includes debit spreads to give options traders thousands of more trading opportunities when looking for positions.

Trade Ideas action now includes debit spreads to automate long call spreads and long put spreads inside your bots.

Trade Ideas now includes sortable columns for a position's beta and delta, as well as a beta weight metric that shows how the position will impact your portfolio.

Option Alpha's December platform release includes bot and position beta weighting, debit spreads added to Trade Ideas, bot archiving, symbol tags, and more.

Use beta weighting for your bots and positions to give you a powerful new way to manage your options portfolio inside Option Alpha.

We analyze the stock market's historical December returns, examine the factors that influence prices at the end of the year, and look ahead at the 2024 stock market outlook.

We analyzed more than 1.7mil Trade Ideas across various days to expiration in November 2023's volatile market to uncover key insights about the performance of Expected Value and Alpha.

XSP, the Mini-SPX Index Options, are now available for autotrading with Option Alpha.

Join the options trading community in advocating for a change in the minimum SPX options bid increments from $0.05 to $0.01.

tastytrade is now available for live trading access! Connect your tastytrade account to Option Alpha today and start trading.

We explore if options probabilities remain predictive throughout a trade's duration to determine if probabilities are always valid, no matter the moment in time they're calculated.

A new decision recipe allows traders to compare key position stats such as EV, Alpha, and more to give you more control of position management.

The open and closed position pages have been updated to display more of the essential details traders want to see. Plus, the stock's last price is now colorized to quickly show a position's moneyness.

You can now customize your Trade Ideas, Bots, Positions and Screener columns to display the key information you want to see.

Manual position closing now includes the ability to exit only the short legs of spreads and partially close multi-contract positions for increased trade management.

We’re pleased to announce that together we have crossed a huge milestone in live options trades.

Option Alpha's October platform release includes enhanced position management controls, customizable columns, and all-new updates to display key trade details.

Option Alpha is thrilled to finally spotlight one of the most unique and passionate trader who embodies the spirit of camaraderie and enthusiasm, Lee.

Our newest research blog explores Alpha, which measures return on risk using Expected Value. We analyzed 960k trades on 155 tickers to determine Alpha’s accuracy.

This study examines the Black-Scholes-Merton model's flexibility in calculating expected value. We explore how this formula allows us to calculate probabilities and expected values in multiple ways, and we’ll compare the different methods to show why Option Alpha uses historical volatility.

Option Alpha traders are eligible for a free Pro+ account when you connect a qualified TradeStation account.

We share the three EV calculations you can use with the information available in any brokerage platform and compare the methods to determine their accuracy.

We analyzed 130k Trade Ideas positions to visually compare each trade's realized P/L to its Expected Value at trade entry.

Trade Ideas now includes a filter option leg open interest. Plus, you can also filter to see the most popular Trade Ideas in the community.

Trade Ideas ‘Presets’ lets you save one or more filters to quickly view all potential trading opportunities with your favorite settings.

We analyzed 230k 0DTE options trades to determine what successful Option Alpha traders are doing and the key metrics that influenced profitable strategy setups.

Analyze your trading performance and filter live or paper results by strategy type, ticker symbol, account, bot, and tags for in-depth portfolio analysis.

Export your bot data to easily analyze and compare closed position performance history.

A new calendar displays key dates and market events to give you all the essential information you need before entering a trade.

We are very excited to spotlight one of the most inquisitive and fearlessly engaging members in the Option Alpha Community, Pen.

Top Strategies makes it easier than ever to find the best-performing option trading setups using historical data from the Option Alpha community.

Option Alpha's newest platform release introduces Trade Ideas 2.0, including autotrading, EV and Alpha calculations, top strategies, a bot leaderboard, and more!

Use Trade Ideas to analyze the entire database of potential trades and sort, rank, and autotrade the best available position based on your defined criteria.

You can now add notes to any bot to include ideas, updated versions, data, research, links, images, and more. Stay organized and track your strategy insights.

Let you bots scan a list of ticker symbols and find the best trade idea across up to 10 different symbols.

With the addition of EV and Alpha, we've expanded Exit Option so you now have more ways to manage your positions.

Trade Ideas 2.0 revolutionizes the way you find potential trading opportunities using math and probabilities. Plus, you can now autotrade using Trade Ideas.

You can now move positions between any two bots that are connected to the same Option Alpha account so you can manage your portfolio with more control and flexibility.

There's a new leaderboard that tracks the top performing bots shared in the Option Alpha community to help you discover new ideas and strategies.

We've enhanced the Open Position screen to include Expected Value (EV), Alpha, and more probabilities.

We are very excited to spotlight one of the kindest, selfless, and most helpful autotraders in the Option Alpha Community, Bob Gould.

We are thrilled to spotlight Charles, an engineer who embraces education, strategy development, and selflessly sharing ideas with the Option Alpha Community.

Using pre-trade opportunity filters is always a best practice. This update gives you an easier format to add entry and position criteria for more efficiency and reduced friction in your automations.

Exit options now include trailing stops for the most advanced automated position management available.

Say hello to a more intuitive, easier to use automation editor with color coded actions and collapsible decision blocks.

Two new decision recipes give you added control when targeting specific dates, including FOMC meetings and CPI releases.

2023's second major platform release includes 1-minute trailing stops, a reimagined automation editor, SmartPricing upgrades, Trade Ideas improvements, and more.

New SmartPricing settings empower you to combat wide bid/ask spreads and abnormal price fluctuations.

Trade Ideas now include additional probability and symbol filters to help you customize your search criteria to find exactly what you're looking for.

We are so grateful and thrilled to be able to spotlight one of the most prolific bot builders and tireless people we know, Reuben Helmuth.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.