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If you are holding a profitable position waiting for time decay, to improve your return, consider locking your vertical profits by creating a Box spread, take the profit and forget it. Just a thought. Carl

Maybe http://finviz.com/ may have the info you are looking for. They have a screener. Else High Volatility should identify them. Just a thought. Carl

NorthStar; All I can think of you already know Interest Dividends Carl in Minnesota

http://www.spytrdr.com/TechnicalAnalysisAtoZ.pdf

Selling an option - you accept an obligation. If the stock were to drop to zero. You will be obligated to $750 for your short Put. Your stock value would drop $373. That's $1123. of risk. . . . You are not hedged. This doesn't include your other costs. Read, Study, Learn - you will...

A learning game, for charting not just for options http://www.candlestickwarrior.com/cb/ Carl

Free condensed release http://66.151.24.54/riskdoctor/OTTHRLITE.pdf

When writing (Selling) Puts you accept the obligation to buy at the strike price. That is the opposite of what you may want in a falling market. If you expect a drop in the market, carry negitive Deltas. Hold (Buy) Puts, or create synthetic puts. Then you will also have to be right on the...

Any short PUT's that Expire ITM will get Assigned to you. So you will end up Long Stock. If this is what you were attempting, you will achieve it. Keep learning Carl

There's probably a reason the front month volatility is so high. The screener program will not know why. Paper trade, and learn. I believe TOS has this scan functionality.

Options were designed to control risk in the market. Stocks can't. They can be a substitute for stock, but with more leverage. They can be used to Hedge a position. They offer greater Reward to Risk than stocks. They can get you stocks at a lower cost. A good options book would not...

Post the trade to the "Risk Doctor" web site. "Calendar Configurations" http://www.riskillustrated.com/index.php/board,29.0.html Charles will give a good evaluation of the Risk. Carl

Sorry I missed this on the last post. http://xfraniatte.free.fr/BSphp.php3 Espen Haug also includes code for programing in Excel and says, " What about taking Black-Scholes in your head instead? If the option is about at-the-money-forward and it is a short time to maturity then you can...

Lasner, sure there is From "HOME" select "FEATURES" From "FEATURES" select "BLACK-SCHOLES TO THE PEOPLE" www.espenhaug.com/black_scholes.html Also 3D graphics including Black-Scholes From "FEATURES" Select "VIRTUAL REALITY OPTION WORLD"...

If you're up to it. http://www.espenhaug.com/ Carl

I agree. If the requirement is to low the brokerage can lose money. If the requirement is to high the brokerage will lose customers. Butterfly's require less margin. If you buy the far month, and sell the near month, on a wide BF, wouldn't it serve the same ATM, w/ less risk. Carl

I'm sure many folks use AB w/ IB. If you don't get answers for this board, there should be plenty of information on the web. Yahoo groups http://groups.yahoo.com/search?query=amibroker http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/amibroker/messages/ Amibroker Library...

Chart the underling, don't go on a tangent. Carl

"Box" trade. But how do you plan on making your money. Carl

Here's a start http://www.optionseducation.org/ http://www.onn.tv/ http://vixandmore.blogspot.com/ http://www.youtube.com/ http://www.sfomag.com/ http://66.151.24.54/riskdoctor/OTTHRLITE.pdf Carl