Backtesting Short Butterflies
Jeff Augen, author of The Volatility Edge in Options Trading, recently published a strategy on trading weekly short butterflies. He discusses the following strategies for trading weekly short butterflies:
Sell an At-The-Money Butterfly on the Friday prior to expiration
Close the trade at…
Backtesting Iron Condors
Tasty Trade recently published a video episode on trading iron condors. In their episode, they recommended the following strategies for trading an Iron Condor:
Sell the 16 delta call option & put option
Buy the 5 delta call option &…
Backtesting Of Call Options Strategies
In this lesson you will learn how to create and backtest trading strategies to buy call options when a stock hits oversold conditions.
We will construct an options trading strategy that will purchase call options when the underlying stock is…
Backtesting Of Put Options Strategies
In this lesson you will learn how to create and backtest trading strategies to sell put options when a stock hits oversold conditions.
We will construct an options trading strategy that will sell put options when the underlying stock is…
API Documentation
The following is a list of available API documentation:
Backtest Strategy Runner
List Of Studies (Technical, Statistical, Volatility)
List of Options Strategies
List Of Strategy Order Filters
If you are searching for a particular method or study, please use our…
Technical FAQ
This FAQ answers many of the commonly asked questions regarding how to use the OptionStack platform. Topics such as how to create / adjust your positions and how to analyze / tune your trading systems are discussed below. If you…
Release Notes
At OptionStack, our engineers and traders are working feverishly to build the most powerful analytics platform for stock and options traders. Each release brings some very exciting developments to the OptionStack platform.
Basket Trading
Basket Trading – backtest your strategies against a…
Option Spread Builder
In this lesson you will learn how to construct multi-legged option spreads using OptionStack’s Visual Spread Builder tool.
Specifically, we will demonstrate how to construct bearish put vertical spreads (Bear Put Spreads) to take advantage of a decline in the…
Scratch Resources
Using our Scratch-like user interface, you can create powerful financial trading algorithms with a few clicks of the mouse. (no programming experience required)
Scratch is a project of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. Scratch is designed…
Scala Resources
Scala is used at the world’s largest financial institutions and hedge funds to develop the next generation of trading platforms.
We love Scala because it provides a type safe language with powerful features that are required for developing options trading algorithms…
