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So the thinking is that a price change in the RUT future could be an advance signal for a change in the RUT option price? Sounds interesting. I wonder if the whipsaw in the futures price could negate that somewhat though.

It makes sense that the price granularity of the option is what seems to be giving the edge. It moves in $5 increments. So I guess it's easier to enter and exit at the right point because it takes it longer for the price to change when the underlying changes direction.

I started my first computer business using one of these (1982?) . I wrote a communications program that interfaced with the Postal Service using the 300 baud modem. And I had to save the code on a cassette tape drive. LOL

What about options for a private partnership - where could they go for something like this?

Either the chart is lagging the price feed or there is some other kind of pressure on the option price since at times I have noticed large up or down turns in the option chain before the chart changes. (Quants at play?) Can anyone help validate the theory that the Russel index option price...

No benefit received as of yet since I just now figured out how to start seeing this in my Prophet charts. And I'm trying to analyze what I'm seeing. The idea is to use it in an options scalping strategy. Where I buy ATM Puts or Calls (depending on direction) on an index like RUT as opposed to...

My attachment was lost. Is there a secret to that?

I got the options overlay to work in the Prophet charts. I'm still digesting what I'm looking at to figure out if this will help me or not. Attached is a screen print with for IWM 65 Calls. I had to change the chart type to "line" otherwise the option price disappears. The red line is moving...

What options are available for something that sophisticated? Is there anything you could use to do this yourself? (Assuming a background in programming.)

A lot of this is caused by being new to options charting I'm sure. I expected to see the same price movement that displays in the Active Trader - plotted on the chart. Or even the rapid changes in the options chain/ladder screen showing up. I understand that some options are traded very...

I tried to chart option strikes in TOS, but the print is random and has huge gaps in it. (I enter the option or "OPRA" code into the chart. For example RUT September 660 calls would be ".RUT100918C660") I got in contact with the charts experts and he told me to just follow the underlying...