INTERACTIVE · CAPITAL · EXPOSURE
Trade 0DTE options directly on the chart — and read your whole position as one line.
I.C.E. Capital is a mobile-first app for trading 0DTE calls and puts on any ticker that offers same-day options — SPY, QQQ, and a growing list of index and single-name symbols — without ever leaving the price chart. You tap once, the engine picks the nearest in-the-money strike contract and fills it with a market order, and from that moment your entire options position — profit, loss, risk, time decay — is drawn as a few simple lines you manage with your thumb. No option chain. No juggling greeks. No switching between your charting app and your broker.
The core idea: it doesn't predict the market — it measures your position. Every option already produces real, live data (the "greeks"); most traders ignore it because it's too complex to read in real time. I.C.E. Capital surfaces that raw output as one honest line — your live breakeven — and lets you trade off it. Think of it as a dyno for an options contract: strap it down, watch the actual output, tune your exit.
I.C.E. is not an edge — it's the vehicle for yours. It doesn't predict the market; prediction is the crowded, losing game everyone else plays. Instead it strips away everything that isn't edge — overfit indicator dials, greek fog, emotional sabotage, the back-and-forth between chart and broker — so your actual read of price structure can express itself cleanly and compound.
Think of it as a dyno: it measures your contract's true output and lets you tune your exit, but it doesn't add horsepower — you bring the engine. What it guarantees is the part almost no one masters: flawless, parameter-free risk management. It caps your losses, turns winners-that-reverse into scratches, lets your winners run, and lets you add to strength while staying protected.
Apply any edge — your levels, your timing, your read — and I.C.E. makes sure variance and emotion don't kill it before it pays. The only thing you ever set is your field (your TP and stop). Everything else is a live read of the one thing you actually control: your capital's exposure to risk.
Below are the three screens you'll use, what every button does, and a live demo you can play with at the bottom.
Once you're filled, this is where you live. Your position is three lines on the chart and four buttons. Everything is measured, in dollars, in real time. And every action here — +1, Reverse, −1, Close, and every TP or stop trigger — is a market order. Your entry takes the nearest in-the-money strike; every +1 adds to that same master strike.
Every action in the command center — your entry, every +1, Reverse, −1, Close, and every TP or stop trigger — is a market order on the nearest in-the-money strike 0DTE contract. There are no limit prices to set and no chain to scroll. The trade-off is deliberate: certainty of a fast fill over price-shopping, which is exactly what 0DTE scalping demands.
When you tap Buy, the engine reads the live underlying price and the ticker's strike grid, then selects the nearest in-the-money strike for your direction — for Buy call, the closest strike below price; for Buy put, the closest strike above price. Worked example: with SPY at $739.70, Buy call fills the $739 call — not the $740. The $740 is physically closer, but for a call it's out of the money; the $739 is the nearest strike that's actually in the money. An in-the-money strike carries real intrinsic value and a higher delta, so it tracks the underlying tightly — which is exactly what lets you manage on price levels instead of an obscure option price. You confirm, a market order fills it in milliseconds. No strike math, ever.
The first contract you open sets the master strike, and every +1 adds another contract at that same strike — no matter where price has travelled since. Example: SPY at $739.70, you open the $739 call (nearest in the money). Price then runs through $740 and $741 and you tap +1 — the engine buys another $739 call, so you now hold 2× the $739, never a $740 or a $741. Why: a single-strike position has a single breakeven, which is what keeps your whole position readable as one line. Mix in a second strike and you'd have two breakevens and two deltas, and the one-line clarity breaks. So adds always deepen the same contract — as price climbs, your $739s simply become deeper in the money.
Most traders instinctively average down — pouring more into losing trades to lower their cost. I.C.E. Capital is built for the discipline the pros use instead: add to winners. When a trade is working and you tap +1, it buys another contract at your master strike (same as your first) and blends your breakeven upward. The key is that your trailing stop comes with it — it keeps ratcheting underneath the larger position, so pressing your edge never un-caps your risk. You scale into strength while the stop holds your worst case near breakeven. More size on your winners, the same protection underneath — the opposite of how most accounts blow up.
This is the heart of the system. At open you set your stop by dragging it to your max-risk level. Then, the instant the trade becomes genuinely profitable (it "arms"), that stop snaps up to your breakeven and trails it from there. From that moment, your downside is gone.
"Profitable" has a precise, honest meaning here: you arm the instant you could sell right now for at least what you paid — when the contract's bid reaches your blended cost. The bid is what matters because you exit a long option by hitting the bid, while you entered at the ask — so at the moment of entry you're slightly underwater by the spread, and you only become genuinely profitable once the bid climbs through your cost. "Mid above breakeven" isn't real profit; you can't sell at the mid. Bid ≥ cost is profit you could actually walk away with.
This requires no number you set: the spread sets the threshold for you — the trade arms exactly when price has risen enough to lift the bid through your cost. And because theta lowers the bid as the day burns, the bar to arm rises over time — a stalling trade gets harder to arm, which is exactly right. The instant it's met, your stop hands off from the max-risk line up to breakeven and trails from there.
Left: at open you drag the stop to your max risk — the red gap below breakeven is everything you can lose. Right: the moment it arms, the stop snaps up to breakeven and trails it. The downside gap is gone.
Here's why it matters. Once armed, even in the worst case — your TP never hits, you never manually close, the market reverses on you — the stop pulls you out at roughly breakeven. A scratch. Compare that to a normal trade, where a reversal hands you a large loss well beyond breakeven. Arming converts "I could give it all back and then some" into "the worst I do is break even" — automatically, with no decision required. Breaking even is a favorable outcome by default when the alternative is an uncapped loss.
Each +1 buys another contract at your master strike and re-averages your cost — so the breakeven line is drawn up toward the current price, and your trailing stop rises with it.
When you tap +1 on a winner, you're buying more at the current (higher) price, which raises your blended cost basis — so the breakeven line is pulled up toward your position. Your stop, pinned to that breakeven, climbs with it. You add exposure to a working trade and your protected floor rises at the same time: more size on your winner, the worst case still held near breakeven.
Tap Buy call → Confirm & buy, then drag the green TP and the red stop lines to any levels you want — both are fully draggable. Manage with +1 / Reverse / −1, and tap Close to exit. (Simulated data for demonstration.)
I.C.E. Capital — interactive prototype with simulated data. Live market data, broker execution, and the production engine are the build. The novel core is the live breakeven line: it doesn't predict the market, it measures your position — turning the complexity of options into a single line you read like a chart.