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I Got Tired of Tracking Options Trades in Spreadsheets — So I Built My Own Tool

Like a lot of retail traders, I started with spreadsheets.

At first, they felt fine: simple rows, some formulas, a conditional format or two. Then options happened.

Multi-leg trades. Rolling positions. Partial closes. Assignments. My “simple spreadsheet” has transformed into something fragile, slow, and prone to errors.

One broken formula, and my P&L was lying to me.

That frustration motivated me to build Optioneer—not as a startup idea, but as a tool I needed for myself.

This post isn't about a launch. It's what I learned while building a small SaaS as a solo developer. In this field, bad data leads to bad decisions.

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