Options Sniper has two launch dates a month apart, and they are not the same event. Here is what happens on each.
The app becomes downloadable — Windows and macOS. Free. This is the month-long testing period.
The source goes public, and the N‑T PRO Logic Pack goes on sale here for the first time.
Because a trading program that has only ever run on the machine of the person who wrote it is not tested, it is demonstrated. A month of other people running it on other hardware, other Windows builds, other brokerage accounts and other network conditions will find things I cannot find on my own desk. That is what the gap is for.
Please paper-trade during the testing period. Live mode works and is, in principle, fine — but "in principle" is doing real work in that sentence, and the whole point of these four weeks is to find out where it is wrong. There is nothing you can learn in live that you cannot learn in paper, and one of those two options cannot cost you anything.
Two things, both from your broker, and neither ships with the app:
That is deliberate, and it surprises people. A default strategy inside an open-source program is a published strategy — anyone can read it, and it stops being worth anything the moment enough people trade it.
So the program and the strategy are separate. The app is the terminal: the research step, the entry hunt, the bracket, the simulator. What to trade and when lives in a Logic Pack, and the app ships without one.
You can build your own in the Loadout tab — research prompt and timing, targets, stop, sizing, entry delays — and save it to a file you own. Or from 30 October you can load the N‑T PRO Logic Pack, which is the one I trade. Six or twelve month terms.
In LIVE mode this places real orders with real money, on its own, without asking first. Short-dated options can lose their entire value in minutes, and you are responsible for every order it places. Read what the sizing is set to before you arm it. Educational software — not financial advice.