Recent Content by markg_ny

  1. does any website show intraday or weekly price CHARTS for options quotes

    Try: http://www.crimsonmind.com To get recent daily changes for a specific strike I use this method: Enter any quote (say: msft) then click...
    Post by: markg_ny, Feb 26, 2009 in forum: Options

  2. Iron Condors vs Short Straddles

    Excel is also a good backtesting tool. spy, straddle, fly, backtesting, jwcapital…. This rings a bell…. Similar discussion:...
    Post by: markg_ny, Feb 23, 2009 in forum: Options

  3. backtesting options?

    Some links/sites from few months back (from ET forum): http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=121798&perpage=6&pagenumber=2
    Post by: markg_ny, Sep 30, 2008 in forum: Options

  4. Short Straddle Update

    Summary: spy 132 April straddle could sell 7.5 last month. I have Iron Butterfly 125-132-139 (selling straddle and getting protective puts/calls)...
    Post by: markg_ny, Apr 17, 2008 in forum: Options

  5. Short Straddle Update

    It makes three of us. I did short straddle for SPY 132 last Friday but I did not follow to the short straddle plan and I wasted money on...
    Post by: markg_ny, Mar 31, 2008 in forum: Options

  6. Load all options data of a stock into Excel

    Too late to edit my post. I am a ‘free stuff’ type of amateur options trader/analyst and <b>I should not post a comment “unbeatable...
    Post by: markg_ny, Mar 20, 2008 in forum: Data Sets and Feeds

  7. Load all options data of a stock into Excel

    I was also looking for csv and I found that: 1. CBOE is the place for current data (download the file option):...
    Post by: markg_ny, Mar 20, 2008 in forum: Data Sets and Feeds

  8. buy or sell question - 28 months analysis

    jwcapital, I agree with you in most of the points and I am glad someone took time to confirm my ‘findings’ and apparently used it in...
    Post by: markg_ny, Mar 20, 2008 in forum: Options

  9. buy or sell question - 28 months analysis

    1. Protection to the downside by buying puts so that there is almost no downside risk (strike of puts = strike for selling puts/calls - initial...
    Post by: markg_ny, Mar 18, 2008 in forum: Options

  10. buy or sell question - 28 months analysis

    Quick update and new test results. 1. My spy selling call and put for March 2008 for $8.2 strike 135 is still $1.7 ahead (even with all the down...
    Post by: markg_ny, Mar 17, 2008 in forum: Options

  11. buy or sell question - 28 months analysis

    Thanks segv for pointing me in vol. risk premium direction: Googlegives a lot of pdf research documents (a lot of them deal with currencies) but...
    Post by: markg_ny, Mar 10, 2008 in forum: Options

  12. buy or sell question - 28 months analysis

    Attached Excel file sort of suggests I was using real market data with bid price (no slippage) (excel has also ask price but I removed volume and...
    Post by: markg_ny, Mar 10, 2008 in forum: Options

  13. buy or sell question - 28 months analysis

    Wayne, You are so right about Jan expiration (it looks obvious - after the fact - from the excel I attached that I had a typo in the only manual...
    Post by: markg_ny, Mar 9, 2008 in forum: Options

  14. buy or sell question - 28 months analysis

    To partially answer “the question” what is better: buy or sell options, I did 28 months test for SPY with the following methodology: If price...
    Thread by: markg_ny, Mar 9, 2008, 25 replies, in forum: Options