Single-leg calls & puts
Every algorithm buys one call or put through Alpaca, sized from its max spend and the contract's premium.
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Options intelligence platform
/ Orion
Options reward precision and punish hesitation.
Most traders hesitate when it counts.
Orion manages every options contract through Alpaca — entry, exit, and the risk limits you configure — with AI-assisted market context, so each decision follows your rules.
Signal
Market context
AI-assisted analysis
Across the options chain
Entry
Your rules
Automated contracts
No impulse trades
Exit
Discipline
Exit rules
Set before the trade
Risk
Control
Limits you configure
Paper or live via Alpaca
Supported Algorithms
- High Probability
- Credit Spread
- LiquidityVolume
- Momentum
- Redemption
- Hedging Options
- Gamma Scalping
- ZeroDTE
- Puts Options
- Fast Follow (Mirror)
- Fast Follow (Reverse)
- EOD MarketBuy
- Earnings Play
- Hyperion Portfolio
- Manual Jump-In
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From manual to automated
Options Trading with Precision & Intelligence.
Embark on your trading journey with Orion, the premier platform for new traders venturing into algorithmic options trading. Seamlessly transition from manual contract selection to automated execution and experience the power of advanced algorithms at your fingertips.
SYSTEM VITALS
Profitable / Losses
TODAY
66 / 25
closed trades last session
WEEK
97 / 61
week-to-date record
MONTH
800 / 308
month-to-date record
Simulated / paper results, gross of fees. Hypothetical results have inherent limitations and do not represent actual trading. Full disclosures.
EDGE
1.5%
P/L Rate
net vs gross P&L, last 30 days
SPEED
8.8h
Avg Trade Length
average hold, last 30 days
PRECISION
72.2%
Win Rate
closed trades green, last 30 days
EFFICIENCY
+696.4%
Monthly Equity Change
equity change, month to date
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Automated contracts
With Orion AI on your side.
Choose assisted or automated options trading. Set parameters or let Orion track prices, execute contracts, and keep you in control.
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Easy setups
Set symbols, parameters, and targets.
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Buy & Sell schedules
Automate buy and sell timing.
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Technicals snapshot
Add indicators for clearer analysis.
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P/L Management
Automate take-profit exits.
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TradingView
View real-time price and volume candles.
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Dynamic monitoring
Adjust contracts with live market data.
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Trading psychology
Reflect, learn, and improve with every contract.
Orion isn't just about executing contracts; it's about fostering a mindful options trading experience. Equip yourself with tools and resources to navigate the emotional challenges of trading, promoting resilience and clear-headed decision-making.
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Reflective journals
Capture your trading journey, learn from experiences, and refine your approach with Orion's integrated reflective journaling feature.
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Contract notes
Personalize your trading contracts with detailed notes, ensuring clarity and adaptability in your decision-making process.
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Trading reminders
Stay focused and organized with timely reminders, helping you stay on top of important market events and trading tasks.
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Message of the day
Start each trading day with a dose of inspiration and motivation from Orion's daily messages, fostering a positive mindset for success.
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Check-ins
Maintain accountability and track your progress through regular check-ins, facilitating reflection and continuous improvement in your trading journey.
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Max loss shutdown
Protect your investment and manage risk effectively by setting automated shutdown limits to prevent further losses beyond your predefined threshold.
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AI capabilities
Smarter Options Trading with AI-Powered Precision.
Orion combines LLMs, machine learning, and algorithmic analysis to surface deeper market insights, optimize execution, and improve options contract performance.
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Entry & exit signal analysis
Evaluates your entry and exit rules against technical indicators, credit spread, and real-time sentiment, so you can see how each signal reads.
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Overnight risk analysis
Summarizes macro events, volatility, and time decay that bear on holding a contract overnight; your rules decide whether it holds or closes.
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Institutional signals
Tracks SEC filings, government trades, and institutional flows to surface price-moving activity before the market reacts.
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Sentiment & news analysis
Scores news, earnings, and macro indicators by market impact in real-time.
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100+ features to trade like a pro
100+ features to enable you to trade like a pro.
Option chain harvesting
Orion pulls Alpaca option chains for in-play symbols several times a day and refreshes quotes and Greeks for every candidate.
Momentum & Liquidity Volume
The Momentum and Liquidity & Volume algorithms build their own call and put pools and run every 10 minutes through the session.
Gamma Scalping & Credit Spread
Two more selectors with their own candidate rules, each buying a single call or put when its conditions line up.
Zero DTE contracts
A dedicated algorithm for contracts expiring the same day, with its own selector and spend limit.
High Probability opens
Runs 9:34–10:10 ET and keeps contracts where the stock's typical 5-minute move is worth at least 7% of the premium.
Dedicated Puts algorithm
A put-only algorithm that inverts the usual entry rules to trade the bearish side.
Earnings Play & EOD Market Buy
Two end-of-day algorithms that run at 3:45 PM ET: one for upcoming earnings and one for late-session market entries.
Hedging contracts
Opens an opposite-side contract against losing positions or aged contracts, sized to the losing quantity.
Redemption add-ons
Monday to Friday, adds to positions down 20–30% once the stock is back on the position's side of VWAP and the open.
Fast Follow mirror & reverse
Follows a fast-moving contract with a second entry on the same contract, or takes a liquid contract on the opposite side.
Hyperion portfolio contracts
Imports Hyperion portfolios and buys a call for each long holding or a put for each short, using 3–6 month expiries.
AI entry verdicts
Algorithms set to LLM entries send each qualified candidate and its technicals to a model for a buy verdict and justification before ordering.
AI contract review
Ask the AI to review a contract's entry, conditions and current profit or loss.
Signal analysis
Get an AI summary of how an open or prospective contract's current data reads against your bull and bear signals. Analysis only, not a recommendation.
Hold-overnight analysis
An AI summary of the factors that bear on holding a contract overnight; your rules decide whether it holds or closes.
Contract comparison
Compare contracts side by side with an AI write-up of how they differ.
Insider & government trades
AI summaries of insider transactions, Senate trades and House disclosures for the symbols you follow.
Earnings insights
AI analysis of upcoming earnings data, alongside a combined view across all market sources.
Sentiment & volatility factors
AI prompts for overall market sentiment and the factors driving volatility.
AI chat
Streamed conversations with the AI for market analysis, saved so you can pick a thread back up later.
Editable prompts & Alexa
Tune the instructions behind each AI prompt, and ask questions by voice through an Alexa skill.
Profit targets
Each contract sells once its profit reaches the target percentage you set.
Take-profit amount
Set a dollar take-profit; Orion sells once profit is above it and starts to retrace.
Loss targets
Each contract sells when its loss reaches the configured loss percentage.
Orion Trail scale-out
Once a contract's profit arms the trail, Orion banks half at the peak and exits the rest if gains give back.
Expiration protection
Held contracts are sold within the last 120 minutes before they expire, avoiding expiry-day lapses.
Aged-loss stop
Contracts that are older than a set number of minutes and down 50% or more are sold.
Time-based exits
Drop a contract after a set number of minutes, whatever its profit or loss.
Stale & stalled sell-offs
Sells contracts stuck at 0% or sitting below their profit goal for too long.
Scheduled sells
Schedule a sell for a date and time, for the full quantity or a partial amount.
Bulk loss-target reset
Reset the loss target for all contracts on a position from the portfolio page in one action.
Discord alerts
Exits, scheduled buys and other contract events post to your own Discord webhook.
Market & symbol lean
Algorithms trade the direction of the market and of each stock's own lean: calls when bullish, puts when bearish.
Alignment gate
Entries need SPY/QQQ breadth and VWAP on the trade's side, and the stock on its side of VWAP and today's open.
Delayed confirmation
Before ordering, Orion waits and rechecks direction, technicals, quote freshness and price movement.
Technical entry conditions
Build entries from MACD, Bollinger Bands, Stochastic, golden crosses, volume surges, candlesticks and support/resistance.
Contract-level conditions
Filter by delta, theta, gamma, implied volatility, open interest, bid/ask spread, moneyness and days to expiry.
Insider & government filters
Require or exclude significant insider, Senate or House buying and selling this week.
Dynamic max spend
Each algorithm's spend is adjusted from its own recent performance and market conditions.
Daily loss circuit breaker
New entries stop for an algorithm and side once the day's booked losses cross a share of equity.
Exposure & concentration caps
Caps on daily order cost, call/put balance, active contracts, and spend per symbol and underlying.
Equity lock
After a strong session, Orion locks in gains once equity rolls over from its intraday high.
Exposure reduction
When total spend runs above 20% of equity, Orion takes winners and sets stops on losers.
Margin & data alerts
Margin-call alerts and a banner when real-time contract data goes stale, so you know when to step in.
Contract event timeline
Key events on each contract — entries, exits, scheduled buys and sells — are recorded with the reason behind them.
Order history
Alpaca orders are pulled every 30 seconds and kept as a daily and long-term order history.
Order error log
Failed orders are logged with their error so you can review them and mark them resolved.
P/L snapshots
Open contracts are re-priced every 15 seconds and their P/L snapshots are archived for later review.
Broker-reconciled P/L
Completed contracts are re-validated against filled orders so stored profit and loss matches the broker.
Cashflow & equity
Track equity, daily and net profits, cash balance and buying power, updated through the day.
Deposits & withdrawals
Log banking transfers so equity changes from deposits are kept apart from trading results.
Contract filters
Filter contracts by date range, algorithm, source, type and technical signal.
Orphan & ghosted positions
Flags and resolves broker positions with no contract and contracts with no matching position.
Performance vitals
A weekly snapshot of P/L rate, win rate, average trade length and monthly equity change.
Options trader feed
Share how a call or put played out, from the strike and expiry you picked to how Orion exited the contract.
Charts & screenshots
Attach chart or option-chain screenshots to a post to show the setup behind a contract.
Underlying hashtags & mentions
Tag posts with hashtags like #SPY, #0DTE or #earnings and @mention traders, so plays on the same underlying stay together.
Scheduled posts
Schedule your plan for the day's 0DTE or earnings plays to post before the open.
Likes, replies & shares
Like and reply to posts, share them with your followers, or send one straight into a private conversation.
Contract forums
Ask about expiries, strikes, Greeks-based entry conditions or the Orion Trail scale-out, and learn from traders running the same algorithms.
Unanswered & popular threads
Filter forums by unanswered questions, popular this week, your own questions, threads you have joined and favorites.
Direct & group messages
Message a trader one-to-one or start a group to compare strikes and expiries on the same underlying, with file attachments.
Follow traders
Follow options traders whose contracts you want to track, see their activity, and get suggestions for who to follow.
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Got a question? We have answers
Frequently Asked Questions
01 What is Orion, and how does it work?
Orion is an automated options trading platform that allows users to create and execute option contracts using AI, algorithms, and real-time data. It simplifies options trading by automating buy and sell decisions based on predefined criteria.
02 Can I use Orion if I'm new to options trading?
Absolutely! Orion is designed for traders of all experience levels. We offer user-friendly features and resources to help beginners get started while providing advanced tools for seasoned options traders.
03 What types of option contracts can I create on Orion?
Orion supports a wide range of option contracts, including manual and automated ones. You can set contracts based on technical indicators, price movements, Greeks, and more to suit your trading style.
04 How do I set up automated buy and sell schedules for options?
Setting automated buy and sell schedules is easy on Orion. Simply define your parameters, such as profit targets, stop-loss levels, and strike prices, and let the platform handle the rest.
05 Are there risk management tools available on Orion?
Yes, Orion offers robust risk management features. You can set stop-loss orders, define risk tolerances based on Greeks (delta, theta, vega), and protect your investments while trading.
06 What brokerage is used to execute the options trades on Orion?
Orion uses Alpaca's Markets APIs for executing options trades, ensuring seamless and reliable order execution in the market.
07 Can I receive real-time alerts and notifications?
Absolutely. Orion provides real-time alerts and notifications for contract events and important market developments, keeping you informed at all times.
08 How can I analyze the performance of my options contracts?
Orion offers detailed performance tracking, including statistics and insights. You can analyze profit and loss, Greeks exposure, contract efficiency, and historical data to evaluate your contracts.
09 Is my data and account information secure on Orion?
Yes, we prioritize data security. Orion employs industry-standard encryption and security measures to protect your data and account information.
10 How do I get started with Orion?
To get started, sign up for an account on Orion's platform, explore the features, and begin creating and executing your option contracts. We also offer resources and tutorials to help you on your trading journey.
Algorithmic apps
9 algorithmic apps, 5 markets
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Core markets
Stocks, options, and forex
Neptune Featured
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capital allocation built in.
Orion
Live
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premiums and price movement.
Triton
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momentum and shifts in volatility.
Hyperion
Live
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will prove or kill it.
Crypto markets
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Virgil
Live
Trades crypto through the Alpaca API, timing entries and
exits around momentum and liquidity.
Apollo
Live
Runs systematic strategies on high-liquidity digital assets
through the Coinbase API.
Ceres
Coming soon
Turns systematic market signals into precise crypto
execution through the Oanda API.
Prediction markets
24/7 trading on real-world event outcomes
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Simple, transparent pricing
Pricing aligned with your algorithmic options trading.
A $5.00/mo access subscription keeps your billing profile active, paired with a 0.5% monthly platform fee on account equity. Performance fees (12%) apply only when your monthly realized algorithmic options profit is positive.
Demo / Paper trading
$5.00/ mo
Access subscription + 0.5% platform / 12% performance
Refine your options contract. Access advanced algorithms.
- $5.00/mo access keeps card on file
- 0.5% monthly platform fee on account equity
- 12% performance fee on positive monthly realized profits only
- Cancel anytime in-app
Practice with virtual funds. Learn and master algorithmic options trading.
Trust & value
You're always in control.
Your funds remain safe within Alpaca — a regulated U.S. brokerage. We don't hold or reinvest your capital. You can deposit or withdraw at any time, with no restrictions or lockups.
- Funds held at Alpaca (regulated U.S. brokerage)
- We never hold or reinvest your capital
- Deposit or withdraw at any time, no lockups
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