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24 alternatives to Options Trading Toolbox

Hi HN! I’m a solo founder who trades options, and I got tired of paying $100–$300/month for a bunch of different tools: one for GEX, one for backtesting, one for scanning, another for trade ideas, another for volatility… it felt like death by a thousand subscriptions. So I built a single website that replaces all of them and made it completely free. For anyone who trades options, it’s basically all your favorite money making tools in one place, with a super generous free tier so that you never need to pay unless you’re a crazy power user. What it currently includes: - Options backtester…

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    Hello HN crowd. I worked on this project on weekends and evenings. I'm excited I made it into a presentable MVP, and it is so satisfying. I would like to get some honest feedback from this great community. I made https://freeoptionscreener.com/, to scratch a personal itch. I myself trade options as a hobby, and I didn't find a screener that satisfies my need to be able to explore raw options data freely and without preset constraints. So I made this app that allows playing with options market data and extract interesting opportunities. The techs used: - Laravel + Jquery +…

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    A community of stock traders.

    2018 · usethinkscript.com · its alternatives →

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    Tradewave▲103

    The easiest way to build your own BTC trading algorithms.

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    All-in-one trading app. Invest in top stocks and brands

    2018 · iqoption.com · its alternatives →

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    Upside▲98

    100% free tool to check the value of your shares and options

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Gainium▲78

    Empower your crypto trading: research, deploy, analyze

    2024 · gainium.io · its alternatives →

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    A commission-free and intuitive options trading experience.

    2017 · robinhood.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, A while ago I had a mildly depressing realization. Back in 2010, I had around $60k. Like a "responsible" person, I used it as a down payment on an apartment. Recently, out of curiosity, I calculated what would have happened if I had instead put that money into NVIDIA stock. I should probably add some context. For over 10 years I've worked as a developer on trading platforms and financial infrastructure. I made a rule for myself - never trade on the market. In 2015, when Bitcoin traded about 300 usd, my brother and I were talking about whether it was a bubble. He made a bold claim that…

    Feb 2026 · shouldhavebought.com · its alternatives →

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    Track trades, spot patterns, and trade smarter every day.

    2025 · mindtrajour.com · its alternatives →

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    I built this tool to help understand and quickly find coins on the Binance platform specifically for use with day trading. https://creative-look.com/clients/ransomcarroll.com/binance/... The problem is there's 100+ coins and i'm not going to constantly scan through each one. So the app has categories like 'big movers with volume' and other filters to help you see what's going on RIGHT NOW. You would obviously use this information to identify potential buy in opportunities. Looking for thoughts and recommendations.

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    Trade smarter. Track better. Grow faster.

    2025 · gaspntrader.com · its alternatives →

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    I kept losing track of all the random tools i use for investing research; from screeners to niche data sites. so i started collecting them in one place: findmymoat.com. it’s just a simple directory right now, but the idea is to make it easier to discover and compare tools (fundamental, quant, options, whatever). curious if others find this useful, and if you have favorite tools i should add.

    2025 · findmymoat.com · its alternatives →

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    97% of traders lose. Get in 3%.

    2024 · backfutures.com · its alternatives →

  19. 19IB

    Hi HN, I'm a solo dev and for the last few months I've been building Hikaro, a tool to find statistically significant trading signals for [e.g., US equities, crypto, forex]. I built this to solve my own problem: I was tired of backtests that looked great on paper but failed in practice. Simple metrics like "win rate" can be misleading, so I wanted a way to quickly tell if a signal's performance was genuine or just noise. Hikaro ingests daily market data and runs statistical analysis on various trading signals. The goal is to surface signals with strong properties, like: Low p-value: Evidence…

    2025 · hikaro.app · its alternatives →

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    A free powerful risk management tool for all traders

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    forex trading journal

    Nov 2025 · its alternatives →

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    The Wheel Screener scans and screens thousands of options daily so you can compare and contrast options with a data-driven approach at a market-wide scale.

    2021 · wheelscreener.com · its alternatives →

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    monitoring unusual option trades

    2024 · intro.optionwave.app · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, My co‑founder and I just opened the public MVP of Epoch, a web app tool that lets you build, back-test, and deploy systematic trading strategies, without writing code. What works today Visual strategy designer – connect blocks or upload code for signals, sizing, risk, etc. Natural‐language input – e.g. “long when 20‑day momentum > 5 % and RSI < 30.” Native C++ backtesting engine – ~ crunch years of pre-cleaned Data lake out of the box – equities, futures, FX, crypto, all pre-cleaned Why we built it At Banks, HF, and prop shops we watched researchers spend days writing scripts just to…

    2025 · epoch.trade · its alternatives →

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