The "daily Call" From Option Alpha: Options Trading | Stock Options | Stock Trading | Trading Online

Hey everyone. This is Kirk here again and welcome back to the daily call. Today, we are going to be talking about how you can test option strategies with automated paper trading. As we get closer to rolling out our new automated trading platform, one of the very cool features that we’ll have as part of this is the ability to paper trade with anybody who signs up for an account. And so, this is good because it allows you to not only test the framework of our automated trading and our bots, but also to test and forward walk some option strategies in the future. Now, inherently, there are some regular flaws that are present in any back-testing framework and although we strongly believe in back-testing strategies and as do many other professional traders, it's a very cool feature to have the ability to forward walk some of these testing option strategies with an automated paper account. What I will be doing just to give you a frame of reference is I’m going to be putting together a lot of automated strategies and