It does not work well with options if you plan to resell them, however it does play well when you mostly excercise them. The factor here is the spread and illiquidity of options. If you consider reselling you have to be in the position ahead of the breakout since spreads widen very fast and...
Metqtrader is great, whatever you want, youll find a Russian programmer doing it for 30 bucks. Besides that quoting instruments outside Forex is its biggest weakness.
i think Forex is the wrong market for this, because of the many interbank-markets and ETN's. Also only the top edge HFTF's still make money with it, Meaning you are mostlikely a too small fish. I have made the same considerations.