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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September 2026

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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Know When Your Dashboard Data Goes Stale

Published August 31, 2026
Feature Platform Tracking
Know When Your Dashboard Data Goes Stale
The trading dashboard now warns you when live account data stops arriving, so you never act on a Net Liquidating Value that quietly froze.
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Export Any Size, and Queue Far More Backticks

Published August 31, 2026
Improvement Bots Backtick
Export Any Size, and Queue Far More Backticks
Hardware upgrades have raised our rate limits to more than five times what they were, and large Backtick and bot activity log exports now prepare in the background and stay downloadable for a week.
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Trade Recap: Where Every Dollar of Premium Came From & Went

Published August 31, 2026
Feature Tracking
Trade Recap: Where Every Dollar of Premium Came From & Went
A new trade-level report for premium sellers: pick your strategies and a date range, and Trade Recap lays out everything from today's activity down to the individual position that moved a number.
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Trader 100 Is Now Trader Unlimited, Featuring 250 Bots

Published August 31, 2026
Announcement Platform Bots
Trader 100 Is Now Trader Unlimited, Featuring 250 Bots
Our top plan is now called Trader Unlimited, and it runs up to 250 enabled bots, not the 100 its old name implied.
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Set a Single Trade's Profit Target in Dollars

Published August 25, 2026
Feature Bots Tracking
Set a Single Trade's Profit Target in Dollars
Ad-hoc profit targets on a single trade can now be entered as a closing value or a profit amount in dollars, not just as a percentage.
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Enhanced Wide Spread Protection and Webhook Limit Enhancements

Published August 13, 2026
Improvement Bots
Enhanced Wide Spread Protection and Webhook Limit Enhancements
A rebuilt wide spread gate and an update to account-wide webhook trade allocations coming Monday, August 17.
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Your Notification Settings Now Control Emails Too

Published August 13, 2026
Feature Platform
Your Notification Settings Now Control Emails Too
Turn off the emails behind your notifications, or pick Email Only to keep the email without the in-app alert.
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