Understanding the Different Block Types
You can create your trading strategies by dragging and dropping various blocks in the Visual Strategy Editor to compose your trading strategy.
WHEN Block – used to perform certain actions WHEN specific trading signals / market conditions occurs. Trading signals can…
Understanding the Strategy Block
The Strategy Block is used to define the stock and option strategies to trade. Using the Strategy Block, you can trade a variety of supported stock and option strategies, including but not limited to:
Long / Short stock
Call Option /…
Understanding the Backtest Results
The Backtest Results displays the Summary Statistics of your strategy.
Start Date: Start date of your backtest
End Date: End date of your backtest
Portfolio Return: Percentage return of portfolio
Max Drawdown: max loss from a peak to trough of…
How To Debug Your Strategy
Watch our tutorial video below to see how to debug / fix your trading strategy when it is not working as expected. Login to your account to follow along with the video!
There are usually 2 reasons why your strategy may not be working as expected:
Your trading…
Understanding the Backtest Settings
The Backtest Settings is used to configure the runtime settings of your backtests.
Start Date: Configure the start date of your backtests. The available start date range will depend on which plan you have purchased.
End Date: Configure the end date of…
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…
