Getting started

Access & accounts

0DTESPX.com has exactly two access levels — visitors and registered users. Registering is free and unlocks every available feature: no paid tier, no trial clock, nothing to upgrade to later.

What each level can do

Both levels see the same platform — the difference is what you can save, trade, and customize. Highlight a level to focus its column.

Visitor
No account — watch and explore
Free
  • Live SPX chart & overlays 1-second, live day
  • Historical sessions Most recent completed only
  • Historical resolution 30-second samples
  • Place trades (practice & live) Sign in to trade
  • Live accounts (continuous balance) Sign in to open one
  • Strategy builder & results View public strategies you're linked to
  • Portfolios View public portfolios you're linked to
  • Custom fee schedule & slippage Sign in to customize
  • API + WebSocket Public market data only

Visitor

Without signing in you can watch the live chart, browse the most recent completed session, read a public strategy or portfolio someone shared with you, and read these docs. Historical market data is shown at a coarser 30-second resolution, and you can't place trades or save anything — sign in when you're ready to trade.

Registered (free account)

Sign up with your email — we send a 6-digit verification code to confirm it's you (no credit card, and a password is optional: you can keep logging in with fresh email codes instead). Registration is one account per inbox: address aliases that deliver to the same mailbox (for Gmail, dots and +suffix variants of the local part) count as the same inbox, and there's a small daily allowance of new sign-ups per network. One account is all you need — it unlocks the full platform:

  • Every historical date at 1-second resolution — reconstruct the option chain at any moment of any session.
  • The account-less practice sandbox: replay any past trading day with $100,000 and full control of the clock.
  • Live accounts with a continuous cash balance that carries day to day, for real-time paper trading.
  • Build a strategy and read its backtest over the full history, updated as new sessions arrive — plus portfolios that aggregate several.
  • A custom fee schedule and slippage setting applied everywhere you look: order tickets, fills, settlement, and every backtest result.

Fair use

To keep the platform fast for everyone, heavy market-data reads are metered by a daily usage allowance that refills continuously — see Rate limits. Normal interactive use — trading, charting, clicking through strategy results — stays comfortably inside it.

One account, everywhere

The same login works in the web app and against the API: the token returned by POST /auth/sessions is the same kind of session the browser holds. Anything you do over the API — sessions you open, orders you place, strategies you save — shows up in the app instantly, and vice versa.

# one login for the app and the API
$ curl -s "https://api.0dtespx.com/auth/sessions" \
    -d '{ "email": "[email protected]", "verification_code": "402913" }'

{ "token": "8a4f3e21d6c9…" }

The browser holds the same kind of token — open a session in either place and it appears in the other.