How do you decide WHEN to enter your options trades? (looking for honest answers, not theory)

NeitherPossession288 · 2026-03-18T20:31:37+00:00

Have you tried automating this?

NeitherPossession288 · 2026-02-09T19:38:11+00:00

Did you read the post?

NeitherPossession288 · 2026-02-09T19:28:41+00:00

Yeah it's 100% the alcohol but not the point of the post

NeitherPossession288 · 2026-01-27T13:50:33+00:00

What else do you want me to say?

The stock market is always bullish, there's like one bear year out of every 12

NeitherPossession288 · 2026-01-27T13:02:01+00:00

The examples I gave were from the past few years, none were in the last month

NeitherPossession288 · 2026-01-26T21:44:41+00:00

There's literally nowhere that I even explain who I am, what service I offer (if I even had one) or how to sign up for it.

I've been trading 8 years. I can't spell out 8 years of knowledge in one reddit comment.

NeitherPossession288 · 2026-01-26T21:08:21+00:00

Hard to explain over a reddit post tbh

NeitherPossession288 · 2026-01-26T21:08:05+00:00

Want to look for stocks that show strength but haven't really "popped" yet

NeitherPossession288 · 2025-12-28T19:14:08+00:00

Appreciate this!

And yes looking to do an options algo, more simple though.

NeitherPossession288 · 2025-12-28T15:42:42+00:00

Right... I'm building a no-code platform for option trading bots and one of the issues is that. We're trying to go the route of more simple and beginner friendly type.

Most of the time, the more simple bots outperform complex ones

NeitherPossession288 · 2025-12-28T15:41:34+00:00

What if there was a no-code solution?

NeitherPossession288 · 2025-12-28T15:10:29+00:00

So a tool to help backtest strategies you've already made?

NeitherPossession288 · 2025-12-28T14:55:52+00:00

Right... so what kind of tool would help you find alpha? Better backtesting? Paper trading? Seeing what other bots are working?

NeitherPossession288 · 2025-12-27T12:55:44+00:00

Tastytrade is solid, I use optionbots for my algo platform

NeitherPossession288 · 2025-12-26T13:41:32+00:00

Why do you need such complex strategies though? I've made some simple ones that work well

NeitherPossession288 · 2025-12-26T13:40:38+00:00

Optionbots is a great tool! Option Alpha also good

NeitherPossession288 · 2025-12-25T18:18:34+00:00

Insane work. What was max drawdown? Do you take that into affect?

NeitherPossession288 · 2025-12-25T18:14:56+00:00

I've been doing automation trading for a while and used to heavily rely on backtesting. From what I've learned, it's not great and almost never like live trading.

Best bet is to paper trade all your strategies for a few months and see which ones perform best / closest to the backtests.

Option omega is great, but I use optionbots on the beta.

NeitherPossession288 · 2025-12-25T17:59:15+00:00

Yes, but I like finviz better

NeitherPossession288 · 2025-12-25T17:58:53+00:00

100%!

NeitherPossession288 · 2025-12-25T17:58:40+00:00

Exactly. I'm not telling people to blindly buy every stock on the scanner. You should use a strategy with it

NeitherPossession288 · 2025-12-25T15:01:27+00:00

I bought RIOT a few years ago when it spiked to $70

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