Accounts

OptionBug trades through your own brokerage account. Pick your broker:

1. Create a free practice (paper) login at developer.tradier.com — practice trading uses pretend money, so nothing real is ever bought or sold.
2. Your Tradier dashboard shows an Access Token (a long string of letters and numbers) and an Account Number (starts with VA). Copy both into the boxes below.

1. Sign in at app.alpaca.markets and switch the dashboard to Paper Trading — paper trading uses pretend money, so nothing real is ever bought or sold.
2. On the Home page, find the API Keys panel and generate a key. Copy the API Key ID and the Secret Key into the boxes below (the secret is shown only once — if you lose it, just generate a new key).

This is a practice (paper) account  — real-money trading opens after the beta.

We check your details with Tradier, then lock them in an encrypted vault. They're never shown again — not even to you.