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Matt Joins Lex of Tradier's TV Show Optionsbrew

Join Matt Amberson of Option Research & Technology Services (ORATS) and Lex as they discuss...

Technical Indicators And Volatility For Triggers In Backtesting And Scanning

Technical indicators like MACD and RSI can be used in backtesting and in scanning the current...

Backtest Basics: Trading Around Earnings

In our backtester, you can test a strategy that trades around earnings as well as strategies...

Stock Splits Treatment In ORATS Options Data And Backtesting

Companies and ETFs may decide to have a stock split or to declare a large dividend (>10% of the...

Backtest Basics: Trading On A Specific Day Of The Week

You can set up the backtester to trade only on a certain day of the week. Say you only wanted to...

Covered Call Backtest: Finding The Best Maturity, Strike, IV, And Earnings Methods

We ran a large backtest to identify the best maturity, delta, call value as a percent of stock...

Backtest Basics: Seeing The Relative Performance Of The Option Strategy To The Underlying

Backtesting Basics: Trading SPY Options Based On Contango, Skew and VIX Levels

We received a question from a backtester user and here is the answer.

New Backtester Introduction

We have released a new version of our backtester that is more user-friendly and offers...