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regards to everyone, for some time i had been looking for a website or tool that would send me email alerts when one of the 20-something companies i trade would hold their earnings announcements. (experienced traders know everything about the volatility crush after earnings are reported). i...

regards to everyone, i would appreciate if anyone has recommendations for data sets of historical tick data ready to import into ninjatrader. i'm interested both in some individual nasdaq - nyse symbols as well as some nymex, cme, comex, cbot futures contracts. i realize i will have to pay...

i started this thread a number of months ago. i can now read my original post and say that i'm really close to achieving the objectives i have had for a long time. i have continued to work on this matter with everything i got and have made great progress: - i have a number of nicely...

well. in short: don't waste your time with tradestation. the platform is a complete failure, it is useless. i wasted years trying to make ts work but would have been profitably with ninjatrader in 6 months at most, not in one week because i'm quite stubborn and wanted very fast strategies...

well, you know, this pattern where several anonymous accounts all praise and defend another anonymous account is somewhat prevalent on the internet. it is always one same guy who creates multiple accounts to respond to his own crap and try to not look as irrelevant and sorry as he really is...

mr. Jacobson, i appreciate your interest. to clarify, there are something like 30 symbols (aapl, mu, twtr and the like) that are the most traded by the masses. i have never had issues with the option chains for those symbols and, consequently, those are the only ones i trade. for the...

mr. Jacobson, i have accounts both with ib and tradestation and the lack of quotes for most contracts for most symbols is quite pervasive (not to mention the mfing 0 - 500 bid ask quotes for the entire otm half of an option chain or the itm half with the bid ask spread being as high as 60% of...

well, in the time i have been a member in this forum, mr. mcginnis has always been one of the regulars in the options section who are helpful and generous with their knowledge. and i see the points you make but there are a lot of individual stock symbols where there are practically no quotes...

mr. mcginnis, you have something of a point here. from experience i know that to open a long position in markets as deserted as the ones i describe, one can start with orders with very low prices and progressively increase them in small amounts. somewhere around fair price there will be some...

regards to the experts who share valuable, constructive contributions in this forum. i have been trading options for something like 18 months now. there are some symbols that are the most traded by the masses and every contract in their option chain has an outstanding quote for bid and ask at...

Bob, you are one of the most valuable members in these fora by far, thanks a lot. i will take a look at the link you have kindly provided. regards.

regards to everyone, i'm looking for a service, free or affordable if paid, that would show me the dates for trimestral earnings reports on a calendar for a list of nasdaq and nyse symbols i chose. i'm also interested in sending alerts for every symbol to my email 15, 10 and 7 days before...

if you aspire to trade options directionally you need strategies - set of rules with the which you can demonstrably trade the underlying instruments profitably (even when anticipating brutal slippage and commissions against you because that's what you will find in the real world). if whatever...

qlai, you are right. it is crucially important to calculate if there existed any divergence between these trades in 50 delta options versus what these trades would have returned in positions in 100 shares. these are the trades that my strategies would have generated as reported by...

valuable and knowledgeable members with et, this is just a quick update: this past week the automated options trading system i have been contributing for over the last several months was successfully augmented with limit orders for entries. so, this past friday i traded my strategies...

i have searched for a command to block the ignoramii who saturate these fora with their crap and ignorance. there's an ignore function but the ability to block members from reading one's posts is urgently needed. in almost every thread a significant percentage of replies are a waste of time as...

et does make a search engine available to its members, but it is even easier to go to any user's profile directly and there you will find both the threads that user has started as well as all their posts.

it is indeed possible to profitably trade options directionally in place of positions in shares. options are far superior to stocks in numerous aspects so this is a very rewarding investigation to undertake. i have had a number of profitable strategies for a a couple of years and i have spent...

if the people at tastytrade were making any money with the useless methodologies they promote they would be running a very large and absolutely secretive fund, they would never be so busy creating all the free publicly available content and promotional materials that they do. the people who own...

fortunately those last images i shared were much better to illustrate the phenomenon i have encountered and cleared a lot of misinterpretations. now, this is the options chain for twtr for the front contract today...