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Tutorials, walkthroughs, and guides for building automated options trading bots — straight from our YouTube channel, written up so you can follow along.
GuideNavy and gold options order ticket branching from a broker acknowledgement into working, partially filled, filled, and rejected state icons
September 24, 2026 • 13 min read

How Options Bot Orders Get Filled: Limit Prices, Multi-Leg Orders, Partial Fills, and Rejections

A trading signal is not a filled trade. Follow an options order through submission, acknowledgement, working and partial fills, cancellation or rejection, and final broker reconciliation.

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GuideDark navy and gold options contract approaching an expiration clock with neutral paths for exercise, assignment, and expiration
September 23, 2026 • 14 min read

Options Assignment and Expiration Risk for Trading Bots: Early Assignment, Pin Risk, and Exercise-by-Exception

An options bot can follow its rules and still encounter exercise, assignment, broker deadlines, or unexpected stock exposure. Learn what changes as expiration approaches.

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GuideDark navy and gold risk-control dashboard with balanced capital allocations, contract limits, portfolio exposure indicators, and pause controls
September 21, 2026 • 15 min read

How to Size an Options Trading Bot: Position Sizing, Risk Limits, and Buying Power

Contract count is not a complete measure of risk. Learn how to translate maximum loss, assignment capital, buying power, correlated exposure, and operational limits into a practical sizing framework.

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GuideNavy and gold analytical dashboard with charts, trade distributions, drawdowns, and a magnifying glass representing evaluation of options backtest results
September 13, 2026 • 13 min read

How to Read Options Backtest Results: Win Rate, Drawdown, P/L, Slippage, and Sample Size

A profitable-looking equity curve is only the beginning. Learn how to evaluate win rate, expected value, drawdown, trade count, costs, fill assumptions, and outlier dependence before trusting an options backtest.

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GuideAutomated options trading dashboard connected to a TradeStation brokerage account — navy and gold fintech interface showing options strategy panels, bot automation icons, and live market data
July 18, 2026 • 13 min read

Best Options Trading Bots for TradeStation in 2026

OptionBots, Option Alpha, Tradetron, TradersPost, Level2, MultiCharts, and TradeStation's own EasyLanguage tools each automate options differently on a TradeStation account. This guide compares all seven by broker connection method, options support depth, and price.

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GuideAutomated iron condor trading bot dashboard — navy and gold fintech chart showing an iron condor profit zone with bounded losses on both wings and automated rule indicators
July 18, 2026 • 14 min read

Best Options Trading Bots for Iron Condors in 2026

OptionBots and Option Alpha lead for full entry-to-exit iron condor automation — but the right tool depends on your broker, whether you already have a signal source, and how much of the strategy you want the software to define. Seven tools compared.

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GuideAutomated credit spread trading bot dashboard — navy and gold fintech chart showing a defined-risk credit spread profit zone with bounded losses on both sides
July 15, 2026 • 13 min read

Best Options Trading Bots for Credit Spreads in 2026

OptionBots, Option Alpha, and TradeSteward lead for credit spread automation — but the right pick depends on your broker, whether you have a signal source, and how much of the management cycle you want automated. Seven tools compared.

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GuideCovered call passive income automation dashboard — navy and gold fintech chart showing a stock price with a call strike ceiling and premium income flowing as a passive income stream
July 14, 2026 • 13 min read

Best Automated Covered Call Software for Passive Income in 2026

OptionBots, Option Alpha, and TradersPost lead for full automation — but the right pick depends on your broker, budget, and how hands-off you actually want to be. Seven approaches compared.

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GuideIllustration of the Wheel options strategy automation cycle — sell cash-secured put, assignment, sell covered call — shown as a rotating gold and navy fintech dashboard diagram
July 12, 2026 • 14 min read

Best Options Trading Bots for the Wheel Strategy in 2026

OptionBots, Option Alpha, and ThetaGang lead for full automation — but the right pick depends on your broker, whether you code, and how much of the CSP-to-covered-call handoff you want automated. Seven tools compared.

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GuideIllustration comparing automated Wheel strategy trading bots — a rotating wheel of cash-secured puts, assignment, and covered calls on a navy and gold fintech dashboard
July 11, 2026 • 13 min read

Best Options Trading Bots for the Wheel Strategy in 2026

OptionBots, QuantWheel, Option Alpha, PeakBot, and TradersPost each automate a different piece of the sell-puts-get-assigned-sell-calls cycle. Seven real tools and approaches compared.

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GuideFintech illustration of a trader comparing automated options trading bot platforms connected to a Tastytrade account, with navy blue and gold dashboard panels
July 10, 2026 • 11 min read

Best Options Trading Bots for Tastytrade in 2026

OptionBots, Option Alpha, Trade Steward, TradersPost, and SignalStack all connect to Tastytrade's Open API. Which one fits your strategy, budget, and how hands-off you actually want to be?

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GuideIllustration of a beginner trader comparing options trading automation platforms on a dashboard, with navy and gold fintech styling
July 9, 2026 • 12 min read

Best Options Trading Bots for Beginners in 2026

OptionBots, Option Alpha, and Options Auto Trader lead the list — but the right pick depends on risk control, readiness to automate, and your broker. Seven real approaches compared.

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GuideIllustration of options trading tax documents, including a tax form, calculator, and stock price chart with a gold accent
July 5, 2026 • 8 min read

How Are Options Trades Taxed? What Automated Options Traders Need to Know

Most options trades are taxed as short-term capital gains, but the wash sale rule and Section 1256 contracts change the math. Here's how each rule works, which forms you'll file, and what to track — especially once a bot is trading faster than you can log by hand.

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GuideIllustration of automated cash-secured put trading showing a stock price chart with a put strike level, gold cash reserves, and an automation gear motif
July 3, 2026 • 9 min read

How to Automate Cash-Secured Puts: A Step-by-Step Guide for Options Income

Automating cash-secured puts means setting rules for strikes, expirations, and exits, then letting software execute them without you watching the market all day. This guide covers the full setup — delta targets, DTE windows, profit targets, stop losses, and IV filters.

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GuideCovered call automation illustration showing a stock price chart with a call option written above it and gold premium income flowing from the position
July 2, 2026 • 10 min read

How to Automate Covered Calls: Generate Consistent Monthly Income on Autopilot

A covered call bot handles strike selection, entries, profit-taking, and rolling automatically. This guide covers the full setup — delta rules, expiration targeting, IV filters, broker connections, and how to backtest before going live.

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GuideCash-secured put strategy illustration showing a stock price chart above a put strike level with premium income flowing upward
July 1, 2026 • 8 min read

What Is a Cash-Secured Put? How to Sell CSPs and Automate the Income

A cash-secured put pays you premium for committing to buy shares at your target price. This guide covers strike selection, expiration rules, risk management, and how to automate the full CSP workflow — entries, profit targets, rolls, and assignment handoff — without writing any code.

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How to Automate the Wheel Strategy: Sell Puts, Get Assigned, Sell Calls — on Autopilot
June 29, 2026 • 8 min read

How to Automate the Wheel Strategy: Sell Puts, Get Assigned, Sell Calls — on Autopilot

The Wheel strategy is one of the most popular income-generating options strategies — but running it manually is tedious. This guide explains exactly how it works, what makes it automatable, and how to run it on autopilot.

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Guide0DTE opening range breakout options strategy chart showing morning breakout on SPY
June 29, 2026 • 8 min read

What Is the 0DTE Opening Range Breakout Strategy? (And How to Automate It)

The 0DTE ORB strategy buys calls or puts when price breaks out of the first 15–30 minute trading range. Learn how it works and how to automate every entry, filter, and exit without watching charts.

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VideoThe PDT Rule Is Dead: Day Trade 0DTE With Any Account Size
June 4, 2026 • 5 min read

The PDT Rule Is Dead: Day Trade 0DTE With Any Account Size

The $25,000 pattern day trader rule is officially dead. Here's what the SEC's change means for traders and how to take advantage by running 0DTE options bots — even with a small account.

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VideoHow to Build a 0DTE SPX Iron Condor Bot on OptionBots
June 3, 2026 • 7 min read

How to Build a 0DTE SPX Iron Condor Bot on OptionBots

A step-by-step walkthrough of building a live, fully automated 0DTE SPX iron condor bot — choosing symmetric 0.10 deltas, a 5-point spread width, a VIX filter, and disciplined stop-loss rules.

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VideoHow to Set Up a Paper Trading Bot on OptionBots
June 3, 2026 • 5 min read

How to Set Up a Paper Trading Bot on OptionBots

Every OptionBots account starts with ~$500,000 in free paper-trading capital and no broker required. Here's how to build, configure, and launch a 0DTE iron butterfly paper bot from scratch.

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