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What software / website could I use to look at historical option data, I mainly want to chart at the actual trades of both the underlying and the several strikes, it would be good if I could also overlay the Greeks. I have figured out how to do this with ETrade but it’s tricky and takes...

Funny, I am a software engineer, so yes I believe you have just hit on the issue, Theta and Days to Expiration, which is exactly why I joined this forum. Thanks…

What I meant by strange is that analyzing the following hypothetical positions over the entire 42 days the 270 LONG CALL has best return %Yield of all the positions below. Keep in mind that my bet is that AAPL goes ballistic before MID JANUARY. Is it coming out this way because I am expecting a...

I am looking at a long call on AAPL using TD Option View 360 to forecast, I am seeing something that looks strange. I have setup the following theoretical positions all AAPL Long Calls 270 260 230 200 170 What is strange is that the returns are greater looking at %Yield considering...

This is a new offering from TD currently in BETA, anyone tried it?

MTE, Thanks for taking the time to answer. My "Strategy" on reaching far OTM is simply to minimize losses as I am a beginner and understand this type of speculation is very risky. My thinking here is that going way OTM I minimize losses and accept smaller gains, I see volume on the...

Take AAPL and my opinion is that the stock will see a large move mid JAN, however the stock is down lately and I believe it’s a good time to pick up some JAN and APRIL long calls. I want to stay pretty far OTM so that potential losses are minimized. JAN is for macworld announcements and...

This is my first post, I am primarily interested in options, and have read most of this forum. Fantastic info here helped a lot. I have taken the online options course at the Chicago Exchange, I have two accounts Etrade and TDAmeritrade. I am also going to open an account at thinkorswim...