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Release Notes

At OptionStack, our engineers and traders are working feverishly to build the most powerful analytics platform for stock and options traders.   Each release brings some very exciting developments to the OptionStack platform. Basket Trading Basket Trading – backtest your strategies against a…
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Backtesting Of Vertical Spreads Strategies

In this lesson you will learn how to create and backtest trading strategies to buy and sell Vertical Spreads based on technical indicators, such as the Moving Average Crossovers. We will construct an options trading strategy that will enter into a…
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Option Spread Builder

In this lesson you will learn how to construct multi-legged option spreads using OptionStack’s Visual Spread Builder tool. Specifically, we will demonstrate how to construct bearish put vertical spreads (Bear Put Spreads) to take advantage of a decline in the…
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Scratch Resources

Using our Scratch-like user interface, you can create powerful financial trading algorithms with a few clicks of the mouse.  (no programming experience required) Scratch is a project of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab.    Scratch is designed…
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Scala Resources

Scala is used at the world’s  largest financial institutions and hedge funds to develop the next generation of trading platforms. We love Scala because it provides a type safe language with powerful  features that are required for developing options trading algorithms…