Is there an Automated Options Trading package available ?? I have a very good short-term SPY (or aapl) Options Model I want to automate. This can be a joint venture. pls email replies to: tradethetrend@acanac.net Thank You
Looking for the same here. At the very simplest level, I would like a sell a 10 pt wide 70% prob Spx Iron Condor everytime the Vix goes above its 10 day MA. Entry rules seem simple enough to code.
The closest thing I have found is TradeStation. I wouldn't say they went out of their way to design a system for just such a use, but they have enough workable infrastructure for options that you can probably do what you are trying to accomplish. Options are a bit of niche area and most support for them is a bit hit and miss. For instance TradeStation supports options chains and various options specific reserve words but from there a chart is a chart and an options chart is treated pretty much like a chart for any other instrument on the platform. MultiCharts offers some of the same above aspects, but doesn't provide an options chain for you to work with...you have to know and manually enter in the exact strike symbol you are looking for. On the other hand their Portfolio Backtesting software is pretty useful for backtesting against multiple strikes simultaneously where you need them to be aware of each other and even reference the underlying symbol on Data2 . TradeStation's Porfolio Backtesting is far more crude and expensive at$59 a month vs inclusive with MultiCharts.