Recent content by Gammahedge1

Yeah that's not it. I'm familiar with how google works but thanks

After installing a new version of excel I'm having a problem with the links updating automatically. There's always a pause and then all of the cells on the page update rather than dynamically like it used to. The same thing happens when I use the TOS RTD calls so I know its not The TWS API. I'm...

Which month did you sell? April?

I didn't say it that way and when someone asks a question you should kind of tone your answer down so the person can understand rather then confuse them more. No need to be rude and all uppity.

If you're trading butterflies or any kind of spread all brokers are going to internalize your order first. And someone posting something like "WARNING WARNING!!" shouldn't be taken seriously anyway. IB margins both sides of an iron butterfly/condor so it takes up more margin but it's a front-end...

OK I'll let you confuse the guy a little more since you think you have a better solution.

It was Tom Preston who developed most of the formulas. All options software is going to have bugs (especially in fast markets). I LOVE that book and that's exactly the point I was trying to make about everything being too theoretical.

You may be making it way too complicated for what you're try to accomplish. Thinkorswims's platform is free and I trust their calculations since they were developed by some really smart guys. If you're building out your own Excel sheet for an API the best route is to simply decide what...

The whole point of selling premium is defined risk. predicting direction when you're trading options is just speculating with no edge. That's not a very good spread anyways since its so tight and commissions would kill it.

If you're starting to do a lot of option trades the best thing to do is get an accountant. I've used one for the past four years and it makes it SO easy. Look in the tax section to get an idea of the good and bad ones.

The biggest problem with assignment is having to deal with the slippage and commissions after assignment. If your short is in the money at all it's a problem from the start since you'll start to lose Theta the more it goes ITM. What type of spread are you trading ?

If you're doing a SPY/IWM butterfly you're much better off embedding something directly within the spread to correct your Greeks. Either front month or back depending on how far out you put them on. As far as analytics are concerned I think everyone would agree that using two different...

I trade strictly ES options through IB and unless you're doing massive size I would stick with them. As far as margin IB uses SPAN but if there's some real velocity happening to the downside they'll jack it up instantaneously to protect themselves since you have so much more leverage with...

I'm pretty sure this is a rudimentary Excel question but here goes. I have this worksheet calculate code in Excel that takes an instance in Cell A1 and populates the data into cell B2, B3, B4 etc etc every 1 minute (I'm using IB's DDE API to grab whatever data I'm looking to capture out of cell...