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OptionsApp export

What the OptionsApp export produces — split credit-spread templates with entry schedules and stops — and the validation acknowledgment that gates it.

Export to OptionsApp produces a .json file in OptionsApp's own trade-config format, so a portfolio you designed in the Workbench can be set up for automated execution through your own OptionsApp and broker connection. OptionsApp is a supported execution partner (the app discloses the affiliate relationship at the point of export).

What's in the file

  • Iron condors are split into two vertical credit spreads — one call-side and one put-side template per MEIC, never a single four-leg combo. That's the shape OptionsApp manages natively, and it matches how the stops work.
  • Each template carries the leg structure: short leg to sell at your target premium with the stop loss enabled, long wing offset by the spread width, on SPX (SPXW).
  • Your entry times travel as scheduled trades with the per-strategy contract quantities.
  • METF variants include their EMA trend conditions as entry conditions; MEIC entries are unconditional. There are no close conditions beyond the short-leg stop — the "enter, stop, or settle" behavior you backtested.
  • The broker account field is deliberately blank; you assign your own account in OptionsApp on import.

One-way, by design

OptionsApp files are an execution hand-off, not a portfolio container — the Workbench cannot re-import them. Keep a Native Engine Portfolio export alongside if you want the round-trippable record of the same portfolio.

The validation acknowledgment

The first export (and again when the underlying data vintage changes) shows a confirmation: the Workbench surfaces strategies that match your filters — it does not provide trading advice — and asks you to confirm that you have independently validated the strategy before exporting it for live execution. That's not a legal fig leaf; it's the actual workflow. The exported settings are a starting point — review every parameter in OptionsApp against your own account, risk limits and judgment before anything goes live.

Sensible hand-off checklist

  1. Stress-test the final portfolio — with stress events on.
  2. Export to OptionsApp, import there, and verify each template: strikes logic, premium target, stop level, entry times, quantities.
  3. Start smaller than the backtest sizing. Live fills and backtest fills are related, not identical.

Disclaimer

Cashflow Engine is analytics and educational software — not financial advice, and not an investment adviser, broker, or signal service. It issues no buy or sell recommendations and never holds or manages your money. Trading options carries substantial risk, including the loss of your entire investment. All backtests, simulations, and performance figures are hypothetical, are shown for research purposes, and do not indicate future results. Do your own research, understand the risks, and consult a licensed professional where appropriate. Your account, your decisions, your responsibility.

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