Options trading automation
You have an options strategy. We build the software that runs it, exactly to your rules, and we handle the hard parts that only show up when real orders meet a live market. You keep the strategy. We build the engine.
What we build for options
An options system is a lot more than "buy this contract." Options bring their own machinery, and we build all of it to your specification:
- Multi-leg orders. Spreads, straddles, strangles and custom combinations, placed and managed as a single position.
- Strike selection. Choosing the right contract from a live option chain by your rules, whether that is by delta, by premium, by distance from spot, or whatever your logic uses.
- Expiry handling. Weeklies, monthlies and same-day (0DTE) expiries, including rollover and behaviour near the close.
- Margin and sizing. Position sizing and margin checks enforced in code, before an order goes out.
- Genuinely live data. Option prices move fast, so the system works off a real live feed and knows when that feed has stalled.
Why options are harder to automate than they look
On paper, placing an order is simple. Options make the engineering around it unforgiving:
- Many contracts at once. A single underlying can carry hundreds of strikes across several expiries, and the code must never confuse one for another.
- Timing between legs. A spread has two or more legs that need to fill close together. Real markets do not fill them at the same instant, so the rules are about what happens in between.
- Partial fills. You ask for five contracts and get two. The system has to decide, and act, in seconds.
- Speed. Between a price arriving and an order going out, the system finds the strike, sizes the order and checks the rules, all in milliseconds.
Get these wrong and you do not get a slightly worse result. You get the wrong strike, or a position that is only half open. This is where most of the real work goes.
Brokers and platforms
We connect to the brokers that matter for options, including Interactive Brokers, through their native or REST APIs. Which broker suits you depends on the instruments you trade, the order types your strategy needs, and data quality and cost. We will give you a straight opinion, because no broker pays us to recommend them. There is more on our broker API integration page.
You bring the strategy. We build the system.
We are engineers, not advisers. We do not supply options strategies, we do not give trading calls, and we make no claim about what any strategy will earn. Options carry real risk, and leverage can work against you as easily as for you. What we do is turn the logic you already have into software that runs it correctly, and stops the moment you tell it to.
See it in depth
For a real example, read our case study on automating a same-day-expiry (0DTE) index-options strategy on Interactive Brokers. It walks through the live data, strike selection, two-leg execution, partial-fill recovery and order handling that a serious options system needs.
Earlier in the process, our guides on how to backtest an options strategy and automating an options strategy in Python are a good place to start.
Common questions
- Can you automate multi-leg spreads and combinations?
- Yes. Spreads, straddles, strangles and custom combinations are placed and managed as one position, with the timing rules between the legs handled in code.
- Can you handle same-day expiry (0DTE) options?
- Yes. Same-day expiry is the most demanding case, and we build for it: a genuine live data feed, fast strike selection, tight two-leg timing and careful order handling. Our case study walks through exactly this.
- Do you automate F&O (futures and options) trading in India?
- Yes. F&O is the futures and options segment on Indian exchanges like NSE, and we build automation across both sides of it. The options side is what this page covers. The futures side, including index, currency and commodity contracts with rollover and margin handled in code, is on our futures automation page. Whether your strategy trades one leg or both, we build the software that runs it on your broker.
- Do you supply the options strategy or signals?
- No. We are engineers, not advisers. You bring the logic, we build the software that runs it. We do not sell strategies, we do not give trading calls, and we make no claim about returns.