Here are three resources to contact: http://www.opradata.com/ http://www.livevol.com/stock-options-analysis-data http://www.ivolatility.com/
Correct, but you have to include expectancy. OTM options have a very low success rate, while ATM would be higher for the same $ amount spent.
Don't you want to aim for a $ amount vs shares? I assume if you are short both, the margin is low like FAS/FAZ. However, you need to adjust to...
ATM option selling requires work and paying attention. You can't do that while you spend 40 to 50 hours at your job. I've known many "traders"...
How well did you do the 1st week of Jan 2016 or mid August 2015? Not so easy.
-I'm not sure what you want to do with them, but "Reliable historic option prices" are very available. http://www.livevol.com/ or...
This might be a way to attract more option cross business. Who knows. Do we need 15 option exchanges? This type of fragmentation is not good for...
Here is the problem. You buy a bunch of lottery tickets and hit one. Then you will spend all your profits trying to replicate that. In the past,...
I'm not a tax expert, but what you want to focus on 1st and foremost is making money. If the only way to structure this is to get paid ordinary...
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-18/a-new-trading-floor-in-2016-options-market-turns-to-old-tactic?utm_campaign=REDI+Daily&utm_source...
252 is closer to being correct. 52 weeks*5 days in a week is 260. then subtract holidays. The NYSE lists 8 or 9 holidays. It depends on what day...
Automated option trading is much more complex than equity trading. It would take me too long to describe all the issues that can arise.
If you are only trading twice a week, what benefit will you get from coding anything. Why waste the time. Just enter the trades manually. I don't...
TOS is very simple to use. TD support, for a retail firm, is the best I have experienced.
TD support is very good. Have you tried calling them?
I would stay away.
Are these options going out more than three months?
Your positions are market to market each day and during the day for risk. After you enter a position, you have fluid gains and losses that are...
To start with Reg-T margin is 2x over-night and up to 4X for day-trading. There is no 5:1 in a customer account in the USA. With a $30K account,...
I'm still following this thread for the same reason I slow down to look at an accident. I want to see if anyone gets out alive.
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