What’s new in Options Wheelhouse.

The app checks for updates when it returns to the foreground and requests fresh release information. The update manifest is no longer cached for two days.

Paper trading only. Download Options Wheelhouse 1.5.6 (APK).

The Scanners tab now shows each scanner's last-run time in the device's timezone, with the timezone abbreviation.

Paper trading only. Download Options Wheelhouse 1.5.5 (APK).

Strategies, scanners, and account monitoring now follow the weekday 9:30 a.m.–4:00 p.m. Eastern market window. Delayed jobs skip execution outside that window.

Paper trading only. Download Options Wheelhouse 1.5.4 (APK).

Run, event, monitor, trade, and sync times now display in the device's local timezone, making history easier to read at a glance.

Paper trading only. Download Options Wheelhouse 1.5.3 (APK).

The Lists tab shows each generated list’s associated account name instead of its internal ID.

Paper trading only. Download Options Wheelhouse 1.5.2 (APK).

Trade Results sync reads broker activity since the last successful sync and merges new fills and fees with the saved history. The Runs screen calculates Trade Results when that tab is opened.

Paper trading only. Download Options Wheelhouse 1.5.1 (APK).

Synchronizes Android’s monitoring and exit behavior with the strengthened Windows rules.

Monitoring and exits

• Risk-driven closes now impose at most a 12-hour same-strategy and symbol cooldown.
• Every profit-taking strategy can use a total-position dollar target, percentage target, or first-hit priority.
• Follow The Money arms its option-value trail only after the configured profit, while the opening-range reversal handles only an early failed breakout.
• Background work checks Alpaca’s regular-session clock before monitoring or submitting and leaves positions untouched while the market is closed.
• Exit timing now uses the broker’s exact next-close timestamp.

Who should update: All Android beta users running automated paper-strategy monitoring. Download Options Wheelhouse 1.5.0 (APK).

Brings Android’s products, execution rules, scanners, explanations, and safeguards in line with Windows 1.2.0.

Strategy and scanner parity

• Added XSP Follow The Money using SPY for opening-range and reversal signals while selecting and trading XSP options.
• Added Any Delta modeled-profit selection for long calls, long puts, Follow The Money, and the XSP proxy strategy.
• Added bullish and bearish EMA 9/21 plus VWAP scanners with fresh crossover, relative-volume, extension, and option-liquidity checks.
• Added shared reset-aware Alpaca request-budget protection across native workers.

Understand every decision

• Run History now explains decisions in plain language while retaining its technical audit.
• Opening-range stories state the exact low, high, configured buffer, calculated threshold, and observed proxy price when recorded.

Who should update: All Android beta users. This release remains limited to Alpaca Paper trading. Download Options Wheelhouse 1.4.0 (APK).

Tightens the Run History card header while preserving the detailed account, symbol, timing, event, and broker API information.

Run History presentation

• Status labels now remain on one line instead of stretching the title row vertically.
• Long strategy titles use the available width and are capped at two lines, keeping run details close to the heading.

Who should update: Android beta users who review strategy and scanner run details. This release remains limited to Alpaca Paper trading. Download Options Wheelhouse 1.3.2 (APK).

Reduces rapid loss exits and immediate re-entry churn while preserving urgent expiration and end-of-day controls.

Position-management safeguards

• Stop-loss and trailing-stop exits now require consecutive scheduled observations instead of reacting to one transient reading.
• Option exits wait when quotes are missing or bid/ask spreads exceed the strategy’s liquidity guardrail.
• A submitted risk-driven exit starts a 24-hour same-strategy and symbol cooldown before another entry is allowed.
• Profit targets, expiration exits, and mandatory end-of-day exits remain immediate.

Who should update: Android beta users evaluating automated paper-strategy exits. This release remains limited to Alpaca Paper trading. Download Options Wheelhouse 1.3.1 (APK).

Aligns Android strategy setup and execution with the current Windows strategies and makes unsuccessful runs substantially easier to diagnose.

Strategy parity and execution

• Updated Android strategy setup panels, fields, defaults, and behavior to match the current Options Wheelhouse Windows implementation.
• Corrected Wheel covered-call routing, multi-leg option-chain selection, calendar and poor man’s covered call expiration handling, and Trend Stock execution.
• Added pending-order checks and retained paper-only execution guardrails before an order can be submitted.

Run diagnostics

• Run history now records effective parameters, evaluated candidates, selection outcomes, order details, broker statuses, and useful API request and response context.
• Failure and no-selection results now retain actionable explanations instead of the older generic “no detailed events” message.
• Added a safe database migration so existing accounts, schedules, and run history remain intact during the update.

Who should update: All Android users, especially anyone diagnosing scheduled strategy runs. This release remains limited to Alpaca Paper trading. Download Options Wheelhouse 1.3.0 (APK).

Adds a complete phone-friendly learning and support experience synchronized with the Windows knowledge library.

Help, learning, and platform guidance

• Added a native offline Help Center with Learn, FAQ, and Support tabs.
• Included 61 searchable FAQ answers across eight topics and 16 lessons covering strategies, Greeks, and option pricing.
• Added expandable lessons with risk profiles, human judgment, automation behavior, and parameter-by-parameter trade-offs.
• Clarified shared capabilities and operational differences between the Android phone app and Windows computer app.
• Added Android background-work, battery, secure-storage, and troubleshooting guidance plus direct support actions.

Who should update: All Android users who want complete in-app education and support. This release remains limited to Alpaca Paper trading. Download Options Wheelhouse 1.2.0 (APK).

Fixes schedule-editing crashes and restores smoother keyboard navigation and accurate version information.

Fixed

• Fixed crashes that could occur while editing schedule time fields.
• Restored Next-key navigation between schedule form fields.
• Corrected the installed application version shown in Settings.

Who should update: All Android users, especially anyone creating or editing schedules. This release remains limited to Alpaca Paper trading. Download Options Wheelhouse 1.1.1 (APK).

Brings Android strategy behavior in line with the Windows release and improves market-aware scheduling, scanners, generated lists, privacy controls, and everyday navigation.

Strategy and execution reliability

• Aligned supported option-strategy defaults and entry rules with the Windows application.
• Added consistent liquidity, natural-price, share-coverage, buying-power, capital, 0DTE, and opening-range safeguards before paper orders are created or submitted.
• Improved multi-leg selection, position exits, and order reconciliation, including safer handling of fills and existing orders.

Scheduling, scanners, and lists

• Strategy and scanner schedules now use daylight-saving-aware Eastern market time and stay within the regular 9:30 a.m.–4:00 p.m. market window.
• Recurring work reliably schedules its next occurrence, including intervals shorter than WorkManager’s 15-minute periodic minimum.
• Scanners use Alpaca’s live most-active market feed instead of a fixed candidate list.
• Generated scanner results keep a stable Latest list while automatically archiving the prior result for later review.

Security, privacy, and experience

• Added safe database migrations that preserve existing accounts, schedules, lists, runs, and license data during upgrades.
• Added optional, privacy-minimized community metrics with an explicit opt-in control.
• Improved activation refresh, form keyboard navigation, account and schedule workflows, and light/dark branding.

Who should update: All Android users. This release remains limited to Alpaca Paper trading. Download Options Wheelhouse 1.1 (APK).

Automated options trading for Android, with scheduled strategy execution across multiple brokerage accounts, position management, market scanners, and premium tracking.

Trading strategies

• The Wheel: Automated put selling to acquire shares, followed by covered calls.
• Long calls and long puts: Directional buying with automated profit targets and stop losses.
• Neutral and spread strategies: Iron condors, strangles, put credit spreads, and calendar spreads.
• Intraday and stock strategies: 0DTE Guardrail Spreads, momentum-based Trend Stock, and Follow The Money opening-range momentum.
• Advanced management: Broken-wing butterflies, protective collars, and poor man's covered calls.

Scheduling and position management

• Schedule trading runs at specific times or recurring intervals.
• Strategy Exit Manager monitors positions using delta, days to expiration (DTE), and profit or loss targets.
• Momentum Monitor tracks underlying price action in real time to trigger entries or apply entry guardrails.
• Background Order Reconciler workers track fills and synchronize order status with the broker.

Accounts, security, and analysis

• Manage multiple brokerage accounts from a single interface.
• Secure Vault encrypts API keys and sensitive credentials using Android Keystore and Tink, with optional biometric locking for app access.
• Custom scanners filter options by delta, DTE, and price; symbol lists organize watchlists and strategy targets.
• Premium Ledger tracks premium income, cost basis adjustments, and realized gains.
• Integrated license activation controls strategy access, and in-app update checks use a dedicated metadata API.

Technical details

• Written entirely in Kotlin with a Jetpack Compose interface and factory-based ViewModel management.
• Room (SQLite) persistence with encrypted storage; Retrofit, OkHttp, and Kotlinx Serialization for networking.
• WorkManager handles background strategy execution and scanning.
• Package ID: com.slasthtlllc.optionswheelhouse. Website and direct APK distribution are supported through app-update.json configuration.

Platform: Android. Download Options Wheelhouse 1.0 (APK).

Repairs the Windows installer package and includes the owner research Notice receiver.

• Restored runtime modules required by strategies, server startup, and the Notice research trial.
• The owner research Notice receiver can connect to a separately operated signed service in shadow mode. Scanner qualification and customer subscriber automation remain in development.
• Kept customer trading limited to Alpaca Paper.

Who should update: Windows users. The exact package passed 393 automated tests, a clean install, and an update over a running installation that preserved accounts, licensing, schedules, run history, and private data. Download Windows 1.3.1 ZIP.

Promotes the accumulated strategy, monitoring, scanner, diagnostics, and update-safety work into a verified release.

Monitoring and exit rules

• Follow The Money now arms its option-value trail only after configured profit and treats the opening-range reversal as an early failed-breakout exit.
• Profit-taking schedules support total-position dollar, percentage, or first-hit targets, and risk-driven re-entry cooldowns are capped at 12 hours.
• Monitoring obeys Alpaca’s regular-session clock, confirms risk breaches on consecutive passes, and rejects abnormally wide exit quotes.

Signals, diagnostics, and operations

• Expanded the 4-hour/30-minute fade scanner with a ranked 500-symbol cached universe and bounded 150-symbol signal evaluation.
• Improved Trade Stories, rate-limit evidence, closed-trade accounting, feed selection, list provenance, and scheduled buying-power safeguards.
• Hardened Windows updates so a populated running installation preserves private state even when another program keeps the application directory open.

Who should update: All Windows users. The exact package passed 256 automated tests (255 passed, one environment-only DPAPI test skipped), an isolated clean install, and a populated running reinstall with accounts, licensing, schedules, run history, pending approvals, and all private-data files preserved. This release remains limited to paper trading.

Fourteen enhancement families improve explainability, signal quality, strategy choice, scheduling, operational safety, and day-to-day review.

Explainability and review

• Added deterministic Trade Stories to Overview, Run History, Trade Results, and Open Positions, with exact observed values, configured percentages, and calculated thresholds.
• Improved Run History with decision-focused summaries, duration, per-symbol outcomes, and broker request-budget evidence.
• Added persisted monitor-pass history and a broker-synchronized closed-trade ledger.

Strategies, signals, and lists

• Added XSP Follow The Money using SPY as its opening-range and reversal proxy.
• Added Any Delta modeled-profit selection and completed-candle pre-trade analysis for directional options.
• Added bullish and bearish EMA 9/21 plus VWAP scanners.
• Added saved-list freshness and refresh controls, frozen run provenance, and retention of ten historical outputs plus scheduled dependencies.
• Added the Wheel 7–14 DTE short-cycle preset with stricter liquidity defaults.

Operational safeguards

• Added shared reset-aware Alpaca request-budget protection and account-level buying-power entry suppression while monitoring continues.
• Dashboard data refreshes automatically, and Overview renders cached results sooner after unlock.
• Closed-market monitoring remains unable to evaluate or submit and no longer records an identical closed-market row every minute.
• Expanded capacity products, diagnostics, installer coverage, maintenance guidance, and parameter help.

Who should update: All Windows users. The final package passed automated tests, an isolated clean install, and a populated reinstall with zero private-data file or hash changes. This release remains limited to paper trading.

Reduces rapid loss exits and same-symbol re-entry churn during automated paper-strategy monitoring.

Position-management safeguards

• Stop-loss and trailing-stop exits now require consecutive monitor observations.
• Option exits wait when the bid/ask spread exceeds the strategy’s liquidity guardrail.
• Risk-driven closes start a 24-hour same-strategy and symbol re-entry cooldown.
• Profit targets, expiration exits, and mandatory end-of-day exits remain immediate.

Who should update: Windows V1 users evaluating automated paper-strategy exits. This release remains limited to paper trading.

Improves paper-order approvals, position monitoring, and performance reporting.

What’s new and fixed

• Single-option approvals use the reviewed option contract rather than the underlying stock symbol.
• Approved paper-order proposals show the actual broker order and status; review events retain the originating strategy.
• Performance reports distinguish closed-position realized profit, open-position unrealized gains and losses, and broker cash activity.
• Position monitoring applies saved entry thresholds, profit targets, stops, and time exits with checks for overlapping orders, partial fills, and strategy ownership.
• Improved multi-leg closing calculations and recovery of uncertain order submissions using persisted client order IDs.
• Updated the distribution to include all required strategy, monitoring, activity-import, and run-reporting modules.

Who should update: All Windows V1 users. This release remains paper-only; review broker positions and orders after updating.

Adds guided application updates, user-controlled rollback, and a unified FAQ / Knowledge Base.

Added

• In-app update notifications with release notes, verified download, installation, restart, and status reporting.
• A Settings control for restoring the most recently preserved application version.
• A hosted FAQ / Knowledge Base with an offline application cache, search, categories, and up to 50 featured articles.
• Helpful and view feedback used to rank articles while preserving administrator priority for essential safety guidance.

Who should update: All Windows V1 users who want managed updates and the unified help center.

A focused reliability update for monitoring and closing paper option positions.

Fixed

• Corrected option-position matching so similarly prefixed symbols are not mistaken for the selected underlying.
• Added complete closing-order construction for multi-leg strategies, preserving leg ratios and handling partially filled positions safely.
• Prevented duplicate closing orders when an active exit order already exists.
• Corrected debit and credit limit-price handling for multi-leg exits.
• Improved long call and long put exits by using available quantity and the current Alpaca option-snapshot response.
• Included the new exit-management helper in the verified Windows distribution package.

Who should update: Everyone using Windows V1, especially anyone paper-testing directional or multi-leg option strategies.

The first public Windows release of Options Wheelhouse for local, disciplined paper trading.

Included

• Local-first dashboard and encrypted broker credential vault.
• Alpaca Paper account connection, strategy proposals, scheduling, monitoring, and performance reporting.
• Options strategy library, target scans, configurable guardrails, and approval controls.
• Windows ZIP installer with package-integrity verification, startup management, rollback, backup, and uninstall support.
• Device-bound licensing, optional privacy-preserving community analytics, diagnostics, and support tools.

Scope: Windows V1 supports paper trading only. It does not enable live-money order execution.