Automated Options Trading: A Complete Technical Guide
Automation is the most misunderstood word in retail trading. It is not a strategy, not an edge, and not a way to make money while you sleep — it is a transmission system that executes rules you define, faster and more consistently than you can by hand. This is the complete technical guide: the signal-to-fill pipeline, the architecture that carries it, the engineering failure modes that break real systems, and an honest accounting of what automation genuinely solves and what it leaves entirely untouched.