What's New at tradeSteward

New features, product enhancements, and ongoing improvements to the leading one-stop service for automated options trading, tracking and backtesting with the industry's only 1-second tick backtester.

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October 2026

Beginning Tuesday, Oct 20: Trailing Stops Follow Only the Contracts Still Open

Published October 15, 2026
Announcement Bots
Beginning Tuesday, Oct 20: Trailing Stops Follow Only the Contracts Still Open
Starting at the opening bell on October 20, 2026, trailing stops will only follow the contracts that are open and not the trade as a whole.
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Your Shared Bots Page: One Link for Every Bot You Share

Published October 12, 2026
Feature Bots Backtick
Your Shared Bots Page: One Link for Every Bot You Share
Publish a page of your own at tradesteward.com/shared/YourName that lists the bots you choose to share. Visitors can read each bot's settings, copy it to their account, or run a Backtick on it, while your accounts, notes, and performance stay private.
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New Sloth Stop Speed and Longer Custom Stop Checks

Published October 8, 2026
Improvement Bots
New Sloth Stop Speed and Longer Custom Stop Checks
A new Sloth stop speed and Custom stop checks up to 6 minutes apart help your bots ride out brief price spikes.
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September 2026

Huge Expansion to Event Day Filtering

Published September 24, 2026
Feature Bots Backtick
Huge Expansion to Event Day Filtering
Choose whether your bots skip event days or trade only on them, now across 19 different events.
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Help When You Need It: In-App Support Chat, Feature Requests, and Guides

Published September 24, 2026
Feature Platform
Help When You Need It: In-App Support Chat, Feature Requests, and Guides
Chat with support from any page, track your feature requests, and learn tradeSteward with step-by-step interactive guides.
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Filter the Day: A Failed Entry Filter Blocks All Day

Published September 15, 2026
Feature Bots
Filter the Day: A Failed Entry Filter Blocks All Day
Turn on Filter the Day so a bot stops trying to enter for the rest of the day once an entry filter says no.
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Pick Which Accounts Your Dashboard Shows

Published September 11, 2026
Feature Tracking
Pick Which Accounts Your Dashboard Shows
Your trading dashboard can now show any combination of your active accounts, and it remembers the choice between sessions.
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Track & Compare Option Commissions Across Brokers and Symbols

Published September 3, 2026
Feature Tracking Brokers
Track & Compare Option Commissions Across Brokers and Symbols
Track and compare your actual option commissions, fees, and per-contract costs across brokers and symbols in one report.
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August 2026

New White Paper: First Tick vs 9:30:05

Published August 31, 2026
Announcement Bots Backtick
New White Paper: First Tick vs 9:30:05
Three years of second-level SPX data on why the first tick and the 9:30:05 quote disagree, and how to choose between them.
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Bot Comparisons Now Skip the Days Your Bot Was Off

Published August 31, 2026
Improvement Bots Backtick
Bot Comparisons Now Skip the Days Your Bot Was Off
Bot Trade vs Backtick comparisons now leave out the days a bot was disabled, so the backtest side is measured against the same days your bot could actually trade.
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