# TOOLS

- [Bots](/tools/bots.md): New to bots and autotrading? This is the best place to get started.
- [Safeguards](/tools/bots/safeguards.md): Bots have safeguards to protect traders. You are always in control of your bot's allocation and position limits. Here is everything you need to know when setting your safeguards and limits.
- [Automations](/tools/bots/automations.md): Automations contain step-by-step actions performed by your bot on a schedule. Learn how to create and schedule automations for options trading.
- [Loops](/tools/bots/loops.md): With loops, you can scan a custom watchlist of tickers or manage multiple positions in a single automation.
- [Decision actions](/tools/bots/decision-actions.md): Decision actions allow bots to conditionally follow yes/no paths inside an automation. Learn how decision recipes reference different market, positions, and opportunity criteria.
- [Inputs](/tools/bots/inputs.md): Inputs are dynamic tools that give you added flexibility with variables. Discover the many ways you can leverage the power of inputs in your bots and automations.
- [Tags](/tools/bots/tags.md): Tags are a powerful way to label your positions for easy identification and organize your bots' statefulness. Explore all the ways you can tag (and untag) your bots.
- [Automation logs](/tools/bots/automation-logs.md): Bot logs display your bot's detailed automation history and provide insight into its actions. Learn how to use bot logs to view your bot's activity and identify any errors or warnings.
- [SmartPricing](/tools/bots/smartpricing.md): Learn more about our incredible SmartPricing feature and how you can customize settings in any automation when sending orders to your broker.
- [Webhooks](/tools/bots/webhooks.md): Webhooks allow traders to link to external platforms and trigger automations using custom trading signals, technical indicators, email alerts, and more.
- [Finding Trades](/tools/finding-trades.md): Explore the different tools we can use to find potential trading opportunities, both manually and with automation.
- [Scanners](/tools/finding-trades/scanners.md): Use automation to scan the market, evaluate opportunities, check technical indicators, open positions, and much more.
- [Trade Ideas](/tools/finding-trades/trade-ideas.md)
- [0DTE Oracle](/tools/finding-trades/0dte-oracle.md): 0DTE Oracle is a tool that helps us find and analyze 0DTE and next day trading opportunities.
- [Earnings Edge](/tools/finding-trades/earnings-edge.md): Earnings Edges gives traders a math-based approach to find backtested opportunities based on historical price action post-earning.
- [Backtesting](/tools/backtesting.md): Backtest your ideas and automate your strategy to trade with the confidence of historical data.
- [Creating a backtest](/tools/backtesting/creating-a-backtest.md): Create your own custom backtest with specific settings and detailed entry/exit filters.
- [Comparing and combining backtests](/tools/backtesting/comparing-and-combining-backtests.md): Compare multiple backtests to optimize variations, assess the strategy's validity, and combine multiple tests into a single strategy.
- [Automate your strategy](/tools/backtesting/automate-your-strategy.md): Instantly create an automated strategy from any backtest to generate a bot complete with all the backtest's settings and filters.
- [Best practices](/tools/backtesting/best-practices.md): Understanding settlement for physically-settled securities and how it impacts backtest results.
- [Backtesting Metrics](/tools/backtesting/backtesting-metrics.md): Overview of how the autotrading backtest engine operates and what each of the different performance metrics mean.
- [Managing Positions](/tools/managing-positions.md): Let bots monitor your trades with instant exit options.
- [Exit Options](/tools/managing-positions/exit-options.md): Exit Options automatically manage your positions every minute of the day so you don't have to worry about tracking your trades' profit, loss, days to expiration, or earnings.
- [Monitor Automations](/tools/managing-positions/monitor-automations.md): Use a monitor automation to your bot that checks for more specific exit conditions:
- [Clone Bot Templates](/tools/clone-bot-templates.md): With bot templates and bot cloning, you can easily find ideas, share trading strategies, and add bots to your portfolio with a single click. Finding new trading strategies has never been easier.