Income from options, on autopilot.
Pinaca runs a disciplined, defined-risk options income strategy on your own brokerage account. The agent enters, manages, and exits trades for you — and learns from every outcome to get sharper over time.
30 days free on paper accounts · No credit card · Cancel anytime
What Pinaca does
A patient, rule-following trader who never gets emotional.
Most retail options traders lose money to two things: chasing trades after a fast move, and refusing to take small losses. Pinaca was built to do the opposite. It waits for the right setup, sizes the position by volatility, takes profits at a pre-set level, and cuts losers before they spiral.
Vertical credit spreads on QQQ and SPY with a put-side core, an iron condor overlay on rangebound days, and an optional weekly theta slot on sector ETFs. Max loss is capped before each trade is placed.
An online learner ranks every parameter combination by realized win rate and reward, then commits the best one for each market regime. No backtests in a vacuum — only what worked in your account.
Your Interactive Brokers credentials are encrypted in your browser before they leave it. We use AWS KMS envelope encryption and isolated per-user trading containers. Pinaca staff cannot read your password.
Pinaca trades for ~5 hours a day inside the market window. You get a clean daily P/L report and a weekly digest. If something needs your attention, we tell you — otherwise nothing.
Pinaca is not a broker. We do not custody your funds, hold securities on your behalf, or pool any capital. Your money stays in your Interactive Brokers account at all times.
A daily loss circuit breaker stops trading when you hit a configurable limit. A 3:45 PM hard close prevents overnight gamma risk. A paper-to-live switch requires typed confirmation.
How it works
Four steps from sign-up to a fully autonomous trading day.
- 1Connect Interactive Brokers
Add your IBKR username and password through our zero-knowledge form. Credentials are AES-256 encrypted in your browser using a one-time key issued by AWS KMS — Pinaca's servers only ever see the ciphertext.
- 2Choose your risk profile
Conservative ($50/day target), Balanced ($150), or Aggressive ($500). Your profile sets initial position sizing, profit targets, and daily loss limits. Defaults all assume paper trading — you must explicitly opt in to live trading.
- 3Pinaca runs the strategy daily
Each market day at 9:25 ET, a private trading container starts in your account, runs pre-market checks, enters the spread between 10:00-11:30, manages exits, and force-closes by 3:45 PM. You can pause or close everything from the dashboard.
- 4The agent learns overnight
After close, Pinaca's learner reviews every parameter it used across the past 30 days and promotes whichever variant performed best for each market regime. You wake up to a smarter strategy than the one that traded yesterday.
Pricing
Pay for results, not for the right to log in.
Paper trading is free, forever. On live accounts, we charge a flat monthly fee — never a percentage of your profits, never a per-trade markup.
- Unlimited paper trades
- Full strategy access
- Email + push alerts
- Weekly review reports
- 1 live IBKR account
- Autonomous learner
- Priority email support
- Cancel anytime
- Up to 5 live IBKR accounts
- Per-account strategy isolation
- Phone + email support
- Quarterly tax-lot export
All plans include identical strategy logic. IBKR commissions and exchange fees are billed by IBKR and are not included.
Common questions
Everything before you commit a dollar.
Is Pinaca a brokerage?+
No. Pinaca is a software platform that connects to your existing Interactive Brokers account. We do not custody funds, hold securities, or act as your broker. All trades execute on IBKR under your IBKR agreement.
Can Pinaca see my IBKR password?+
No. Your IBKR credentials are encrypted with AES-256-GCM in your browser using a one-time data key issued by AWS KMS. Only the encrypted blob — plus the KMS-wrapped key — is stored. Decryption happens exclusively inside an isolated per-user trading container with the narrowest possible IAM permissions.
What if Pinaca goes offline mid-day?+
Every open position has a stop loss and a hard 3:45 PM time stop set at IBKR directly. If our service fails, your existing IBKR orders continue to operate. Worst case: a position runs to expiry and is auto-closed by IBKR per the spread's terms.
What is the maximum I can lose in one day?+
Each trade has a defined maximum loss equal to (spread width × contracts × 100) − premium collected. A typical 1-contract setup risks about $270. A daily circuit breaker halts all trading if cumulative losses hit 2× your daily target.
Do I need options approval at IBKR?+
Yes. You need IBKR options trading approval level 3 (vertical spreads and iron condors). If you don't have it, IBKR provides a simple application form. Pinaca cannot apply on your behalf.
Will I receive a tax form?+
No. IBKR issues your 1099 directly. Pinaca provides a quarterly trade export (CSV) compatible with most tax software for reconciliation.
Can I run this on a small account?+
Yes. The strategy works at any account size; sizing scales down to 1 contract per day. We recommend starting on a paper account regardless of capital size, and only switching to live after 40+ paper trades with a stable win rate.
What happens if I cancel?+
Pinaca stops trading immediately and closes any open positions during the next market window. Your IBKR account, history, and tax-lot data remain with IBKR. We delete your encrypted credentials within 7 days and purge personal data within 30 days per the privacy policy.
Trade with a system you can sleep on.
Open a paper account in minutes. Run the strategy live for 30 days at no cost. If it isn't for you, cancel and walk away — your IBKR account is unaffected.