Risk Engine Playground - Analyze Option Positions Live | FlashAlpha
Lab API Risk Engine Playground

Risk Engine Playground OPEN BETA

Pick a symbol, pick contracts from the live chain, hit Analyze. You supply only what you hold - the engine resolves spot and implied vol from live FlashAlpha data and returns flags, greeks, hedges and risk metrics.

1Connect

Stays in this browser tab only. Sign in and it fills in automatically. Free plans work during the beta.

2Build a position
3Analyze

What just happened

The request the playground sends contains only your positions - the symbol, the contracts and the quantities. It carries no spot and no impliedVol. The engine resolves the live spot for each symbol and the live implied vol for each strike, then runs the analysis. If you would rather pin those values yourself, for a what-if or a back-test, supply them explicitly and the engine uses yours untouched.

Everything the playground shows comes back in one response: coverage and structure flags, dollar greeks per symbol and for the book, sized hedges, and the optional metrics block with max loss, breakevens, VaR and CVaR.

Beta notes

  • Any authenticated key works during the open beta, every plan included. At GA the Risk Engine becomes part of the Growth plan and above.
  • Rate limited to 60 requests per minute per key. The chain lookup that fills these dropdowns counts against your normal API quota.
  • Analyzed requests are recorded during the beta (key hash, positions posted, results) so we can see which risk checks matter most.
  • Resolving spot and implied vol needs your plan to have access to the underlying quote endpoints. If a lookup is unavailable you get a spot_unavailable or iv_unavailable error naming exactly which input to supply.

Ready to build?

Get your free API key and start pulling live options data in 30 seconds.