Discord Tips & Tricks
Whether you're new to the Option Omega Discord or just looking to engage more effectively, the tips below will help you navigate the community and contribute with confidence.
Getting Started
Take time to observe the flow of conversation and get a feel for the culture of the server.
Before posting, ask yourself: "Has this already been answered?" — often it has, take the featured academy bootcamp courses, check the docs, and try a discord search.
Learn the best practices below for searching, navigating, and sharing work in Discord!
Locate the Menu Bar
In the top-right corner of the Discord app, you'll see a menu bar with several helpful features. From left to right, these include: Threads, Notifications, Pinned Messages, Member List, and Search.
Each of these tools is covered in the sections that follow. Knowing where to find and how to use them will significantly improve your experience in the community.
Use Search Effectively
The search bar in the top-right corner of Discord is one of your most powerful tools. You can filter by keyword, user, channel, and whether a post includes a link — making it the fastest way to surface previously shared backtests, strategy discussions, and community Q&A.
A Note About Keywords
Discord search only supports one keyword or exact phrase at a time, unlike search engines like Google that are more flexible with combinations.
To narrow your results effectively, use filters like channel, user, and date. This helps you cross-reference conversations and locate specific messages more efficiently.
If you’re new to Discord search, it may feel limited at first — but with a bit of practice, it becomes quick and intuitive.
Tip: The Common Abbreviations page provides a good list of potential keywords for search.
A Note About Broken Links
Frequently, you may come across shared backtests that no longer work. This usually means the author unshared or deleted the test — often unintentionally, such as during workspace cleanup.
To avoid contributing to this issue: Always share a screenshot along with your backtest link. This ensures others can still learn from your post, even if the link breaks in the future.
Despite the occasional dead link, there are thousands of active backtests links and screenshots to explore. With targeted searches and some sifting, there is not shortage of valuble ideas to review.
Some Example Searches:
Find backtests from the OO Show:
optionomega.com/share from:troymcneil in:oo-show-discussion
This will return all shared backtests posted by Troy in the OO Show discussion channel. Try the same search with other OO Show contributors like Matt to explore additional posts.
Tip: Use the “Jump” button on a search result to go directly to the original conversation and read community comments and other inspired backtests.
Find 2–3 DTE Double Calendar backtests:
2 3 has:link in:test-strats
This search returns any posts that include “2 3” and a backtest link in the test-strats channel. Discord ignores punctuation in search, so 2 3, 2/3, and 2-3 will all return the same results.
You can also try searching actual-trades for related posts, depending on whether you're looking for live trading examples or theoretical tests.
Find backtests using a RSI filter:
RSI has:link in:test-strats
This search returns any posts that include “RSI” and a backtest link in the test-strats channel.
Tips for Browsing & Bookmarking
Use the Jump button in a search result to go directly to the original post and surrounding discussion.
If you're reading through historical or long message threads, click the three dots (more) next to a message and select Copy Message Link. You can save this in your notes as a bookmark to revisit or resume reading later.
Navigate Threads
Threads in Discord are sub-conversations that branch off from a specific message within a channel. They help keep the main discussion cleaner by allowing focused conversations to happen without cluttering the primary channel.
How Threads Work
Threads can be started from any message in a channel
By default, you won’t see activity in a thread unless you:
Start it
Reply to it
Or “Join” to follow it
Finding Threads
First go to a channel of interest such as
test-strats, oractual-trades, then click the Thread icon to review the threads in that channel.You will be able to see what threads have been recently active, then if a thread looks interesting, click “Join” to get notified of future replies and keep up with the discussion.
Review Pinned Messages
Likewise to threads, every channel may have pinned messages. These are messages that the admins had deemed valuable and have pinned them to make it easier to find.
Pinned messages often include important resources, links, or recent discussions worth reading.
As a new user you should review pinned messages for the primary channels, e.g.
test-strats
Notification Settings
Managing your notification settings helps strike the right balance between staying informed and avoiding constant interruptions.
You can access notification settings in two ways:
Right-click on any channel name in the sidebar and select Notification Settings
Or, while inside a channel, click the bell icon in the top right corner
From there, you can customize:
Whether you’re notified for All Messages, Mentions Only, or Nothing
Whether to mute or follow the channel
Channel-specific overrides that differ from your server-wide settings
If you're using automation, we recommend setting known-issues, and releases to “All Messages”
A small investment in tuning your notifications can go a long way in making your Discord experience smoother and more productive.
Show Member List
Show and hide the list of community members currently active.
Anatomy of Great Backtest Share
This page will continue to grow with more community-proven tips. If you have a suggestion or a common user mistake you’d like to see covered, let us know in the server.
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