Beta Trading Beta
A paper-only options bot on every Good or Bad call. No measured edge; the paper P/L is the test.
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Trading disclaimer
Action requiredBroker connections and position-management actions can place real orders and carry significant risk. You are solely responsible for every order. Real-money entries remain structurally off. The options bot submits orders only to your Alpaca paper account, and no measured edge has been proven: treat every result as a test.
Options bot
Paper onlyOptions bot
Paper onlyEvery Good or Bad call with a liquid option contract buys one call (Good) or put (Bad) on the paper account. No measured edge yet: the paper P/L below is the test. Real-money entries are structurally off.
directional_options_paper_v2 · rules load with the status
Bot performance (paper)
Too earlyBreakdown (measurement only, never a trading rule)
The verdict rule was fixed on 2026-09-25, before any trade: under 30 closed trades it reads Too early. At 30 or more, Working needs a profit factor of at least 1.2, a net profit and a better result than the S&P 500 on the same dollars; Not working means a profit factor under 0.8 or a drawdown over 20%. Anything else is Unclear and keeps running to 100 trades for a formal review.
Call quality is loading. It refreshes at most every 30 minutes.
Are the calls predictive?
No evidenceWe compare how often stocks we called Good beat the S&P 500 over the next 5 days with how often stocks we called Bad did. If the calls carry information, the Good-called stocks win more often. A share of calls that went the right way cannot show this, because it rises and falls with the market.
Weekly gap in points, provisional: one week holds too few calls to mean much.
Earlier calls (exploratory)
The rule was fixed on 2026-09-28 and counts only calls made from 2026-09-29: Predictive needs a gap of at least +3 points with both likely ranges (by story and by trading day) above zero, on at least 1,000 checked calls. Backwards needs the same in reverse. Anything else is No evidence, and no measured edge is claimed. Stocks are checked for splits and must be ordinary shares. This says whether the calls sort direction, not whether the bot makes money.
Alpaca connection
Not connectedPaste your Alpaca API keys — we detect automatically whether they're a paper or live account. Connecting a different Alpaca account archives the previous account's history so your stats start fresh.
Alpaca account
Live from your brokerBot controls
Danger zone
Bot performance
Last sync —Closed lots on this account. An option lot counts each contract as 100 shares, so the dollars are real dollars; the percentages are on premium.
Open lots
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Recent closed
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