Gave up and walked away.
Both of those answers are stupid and don't address the question. Yes OP is right, unless the options are cash settled or the underlying future...
I know in the states for a lot of the agricultural products the convention is : Buyer sells the front month/buys the back month, so in a contango...
Yes. Hundreds of times. But you do not know my costs, Computing infrastructure, disposition or any of the other things which separate every...
No, the calendar spread will definitely be sensitive to vol. Trading horizontal spreads in futures options might require you to hedge in the...
I meant to get back to this thread earlier, a couple of weeks ago i had a punt on some SB sugar options, and it was completely different. The...
FTSE's OK via IB but other UK equity options are no place for retail. Soft Commodity options on liffe weren't offered by IB last time i checked,...
larry mcmillan http://www.optionstrategist.com/products/categories also has an end of day service which provides eod files for about 5 yrs of back...
I'm not much of a technical analyst so please forgive me for my ignorance. So all we hear in the popular financial media at the moment is about...
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On the IB margin site it says for a short box i will be charged margin according to this rule: Maximum (((Long Call Price + Long Put Price -...
Straight after Natenberg i would read Baird, mainly because its very well written and is quite short - it will make you more confident of the...
No worries, i see where you are coming from, but i would be sceptical of reading too much into it. I suppose when you aggregate all of the...
oh, LiveVol is basically what you are looking for. It charts vol and skew in real time and estimates the volume metrics you were after - like...
Are you a ringer for LiveVol? Boy Marketing has got desperate.
Yes because the call is a deferred purchase, therefore you won't get the div that the stock gets. Dunno about time sensitivity, google it....
good effort, i have a question: -When you created this did you consult the literature on extracting expectations from options prices / is it...
I'm pretty gash at computa. But i know for certain that Access is a steaming pile of shit that won't help you out. Either get it all into Excel,...
Just excel, but nothing really complicated. Actually in some respects LVP was overkill for my level of activity. I would like to develop my own...
I used LVP about 2 years ago and quite liked it, but for the product range it wasn't worth the price. If they added European stocks or US Futures...
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