So today was my first day up and running on Livevol X and I have to say it looks spectacular. Makes TOS look elementary. I am running LVX through Parallels on a Mac and it works flawlessly. I am just a retail options guy (although I wish I was a market maker), but if anyone has any questions, I will do my best to answer them.
cool deal! be interesting to hear what you have to say about it after you use it for a little while..
Do you mean everything is free including live quotes. access to historical data for example? You don't even have to do a minimum amount of comissions per month? How about if you have an IB account? Can you "transfer" it to LivePro and still get the LVP free offer?
IB is just the clearing broker, your agreement is with Livevol. LVP is pure analytics and they offer a free trial to anyone through their blog. LVX is their full-scale analytics and execution platform. I graduated to this after using LVP. It's amazing. I strongly suggest you look into it. Most of your questions can be answered on their site, but I am highly confident you will be thrilled if you check it out. I had some concerns leaving TOS, but I immediately realized there is no comparison. If you are serious about options, this is as good as it gets. Level the playing field. Use the same technology that MMs are using.
The platform sounds great ferrycorsten. But what about LiveVol losing $375.5k last year according to their their audited annual financial statement? How safe is the account if they have a claim on it because it is a margin account (even though it is deposited with IB)? edit: I corrected my error to a loss of $375.5k Sorry about that.