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Options Trading Automation & Tooling

Rules-based strategies only stay rules-based when a machine executes them. These articles cover the tooling and infrastructure for automated options execution — and the operational failure modes we run into operating it live.

Automated options trading architecture — a rules-based execution pipeline from market data through rule evaluation, order construction, and reconciliation, with a kill switch.
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How Automated Options Trading Actually Works

Automated options trading executes a pre-written rule set through your broker — no discretion in the loop. How rules-based systems, bots, and robos differ.

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