New · intraday mode in the Custom Backtester
Backtest any symbol. By the minute.
Test 0DTE and multiday options strategies across the U.S. equity options market. Choose from ready-to-use strategy templates, select strikes using more dependable deltas powered by ORATS smoothed implied volatilities (SMV), upload your own CSV entry and exit signals, visualize each trade from open to close, and download every result.
- 1-min
- data granularity
- Oct 2020
- history starts
- ~140
- intraday symbols
- 16
- intraday strategies
- 0DTE
- native support
01 · Configure
The whole trade on one screen.
This is the actual tool. Follow the numbered markers: every field you need for a 0DTE strategy is a few keystrokes away, or one plain-English sentence.
1Start in plain English
Type "SPY 0DTE iron condor, 16 delta shorts and 5 delta wings, exit at 50% profit or 200% loss" and the AI fills every field below.
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Start in plain English. Type "SPY 0DTE iron condor, 16 delta shorts and 5 delta wings, exit at 50% profit or 200% loss" and the AI fills every field below.
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16 strategies, ~140 symbols. Condors, flies, spreads, straddles, strangles, and calendars on the most-traded names, SPX to single stocks.
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Enter at 9:45, to the minute. Entry and exit are exact clock times. Hold to expiration or step out at 15:55. AM and PM SPX expirations both supported.
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0DTE is DTE 1. Days to expiration counts from 1, so same-day options are first-class citizens, out to 30 days.
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Per-leg strike control. Target every leg by delta with min and max bands, or set strike widths in points from a reference leg.
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Stops that fire intraday. Percent stop losses and profit targets are checked on every minute bar, with slippage and commissions modeled in.
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Bring your own signals. Upload a CSV of entry and exit timestamps and the engine trades your signal on real minute-level options prices.
02 · Read the results
Five-plus years of QQQ iron condors, tested minute by minute.
A real backtest: 0DTE iron condors, 20-delta shorts with 5-delta wings, entered at 9:45 every morning since October 2020. 1,156 trades, 81% winners, a 0.64 Sharpe, and every stop-out in the trade log below.
1The verdict, up top
Annual return, Sharpe ratio, max drawdown, and total P&L for one lot, before you read a single chart.
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The verdict, up top. Annual return, Sharpe ratio, max drawdown, and total P&L for one lot, before you read a single chart.
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Honest accounting. Strategy vs buy-and-hold with commissions and dividends included. What you see is exactly what the trades made.
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Five-plus years of minute bars. Every point on this curve was marked from real 1-minute options prices, stop-outs and all.
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From backtest to trade. Like what you see? Scan live options for this exact setup, or download the full trade log as CSV.
monthly returns · oct 2020 to today
trade log · every fill · csv download
03 · Why intraday precision matters
Catch the 2:49 PM stop-out when it happens.
Intraday mode tracks your position minute by minute, so stops and profit targets trigger when their levels are reached, not just at the end of the day. Strike selection is powered by ORATS smoothed implied volatilities and Greeks, providing more stable, dependable deltas than calculations based on noisy individual option quotes.
See the full story of every trade from entry to exit, whether it lasts a few minutes or multiple days. Both engines live in the same Custom Backtester, so you can choose the right one for each strategy.
Anatomy of a stop-out · one fill from the run above · Jul 24, 2024
stopped out 2:49 PM
A real fill from the QQQ run above, opened in the Trade History view: the condor’s price minute by minute through the July 24, 2024 session. Theta grinds all morning, the market slides after lunch, and the stop fires at 2:49 PM, the minute the loss crosses 200% of the credit received. By the close the same position had lost nearly twice as much: the mark daily bars would have recorded. Every fill from 2022 onward opens like this straight from the trade log.
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| Intraday · new | End of Day | |
|---|---|---|
| History | Back to October 2020 | Back to 2007 |
| Granularity | Every minute, 9:34am ET to the close | One mark per day |
| Stops & profit targets | Fire on the minute they hit | Evaluated at end of day |
| 0DTE strategies | Native | Built for multi-day holds |
| Strategies | 16 | 45 |
| Symbols | ~140 most-traded, SPX to single names | Any US-listed optionable name |
| Indicator triggers | Time-based entries by design | 794 indicators, earnings, dates |
Under the hood
Built like an execution engine.
- Honest execution modeling
- Slippage as a percentage of the bid-ask width per side, commissions defaulting to $0.65 a contract, and an adjustable wide-price filter that keeps untradeably wide quotes out of your fills.
- 16 strategies
- Iron condors, iron butterflies, credit and debit spreads, straddles, short strangles, naked long and short options, and three flavors of calendars.
- ~140 symbols, 9:34 to the close
- Every name with weekly options in the backtest-finder universe, snapshotted every minute of every session since October 2020.
- A 300-million-run pedigree
- Built on the same reporting stack as our EOD engine: performance metrics, monthly returns, and a trade log for every simulated fill.
Rather just say it? Ask Otto, the AI agent built into the dashboard, to run the whole backtest for you. “SPX 0DTE put credit spread, 30 delta, 30 wide, exit at 50% profit, last 6 months” is a complete instruction.
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FAQ
Intraday backtesting, answered.
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