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elie - I've been using the volatility bands two ways - first as one of several signal/confirmation studies being combined by the TP program's summary signal generator to produce buy/sells and also as a normal chart study with Bolinger Bands to help confirm SR breakout/reversals. As the...

maximus - I've been just using the TP functions and haven't needed to also run QCharts. I've been mostly swing trading indices lately and haven't had a great need for L2 or T&S. But if you do, you can just run a small QCharts window at the same time with an L2 and T&S window until they...

maximus - I've been using TP since the end of day version was initially beta released and have been using the realtime version since it starting to be rolled out. Both programs are slick and unique and worth checking out. The end of day version can be used to search for trading candidates...

FWIW - I believe it's not just Realtick that does this - INX.X is the CBOE Internet Index, INX is the S&P cash index (source unknown), and SPX.X is the S&P cash index from the CBOE INX and SPX.X should be the same but occassionally I've seen differences (e.g., gaps in data on one but not...

Hi chamol - I use the end of day program's option analytics (the montage can use either the CBOE's realtime snapshot quotes (costs about $11/month) or the CBOE's free delayed quotes) and some of the scans/indicator panels to find potential plays. Although lately I've been primary focusing on...

vikana - try Trade Prospector, it's got option analysis functions like an option montage that shows IV, TV, greeks, etc. and also has a number of comparative analyzers for different strategies like spreads, collars, etc. Also has option calculators and a graphic position analyzer. The website...

AAA - In addition, the dollar index contract was rallying into about noon yesterday before dropping along with the market into the close (continued down this morning into about 11am and has bounced as of this writing). It closed up for the day yesterday. The British Pound contract was...

chamol - If you've got a QCharts trial going, you might also want to check out a trial of Trade Prospector. Their realtime program currently works with the QCharts datafeed but I like the charts better than those in QCharts because it automatically shows intraday support/resistance...

chamol - FYI - QCharts can do tick and any integral minute bars (1, 2, 3, ...) The timeframe drop down list has 1 and 5 minutes (since they're more common than 2, 3, or 4 minute charts), but all you have to do is type the # of minutes into the box and that's the timeframe of the chart...

Fair value is always positive - no idea what the CNBC gnomes think they're doing. Fair value is essentially the premium over the spot price of the underlying physical that covers the cost of holding the underlying physical (in the case of index futures, the basket of stocks that make up the...

lescor - Do you get 3-1 on overnights on the day you initiate the overnight position or do they drop the initial overnight margin to 2-1 (and then move to 3-1 for maintenance margin on subsequent nights)? Thanks.

Richard - don't know about their reports. Just had them in my list of links.

gorgias - I currently use Quote.com for bar data ($79/month+exchange fees - although unless you want realtime futures data you can do without the CME/CBOT/etc. exchange fees and take the data delayed). If you can read ASCII format data, you can just open up a chart for the particular...

Pej - Presumably your comments were directed at my post, even though my post was geared toward AAA's comment that "...that's why they call it a hedge fund - the manager is supposed to prevent a big loss like many mutual funds...". Which of course is why I pointed out that so-called hedge...

gorgias - Are you looking for trade by trade tick data or just historical 1 minute bars? Be aware that except for e-minis, futures tick data will not necessarily contain every trade that actually occured nor will it contain reliable volume info (or any volume data in most cases) because of...

One thing to keep in mind is that most "hedge funds" don't really technically "hedge" anything. The original idea behind it was that a hedge fund would have more freedom than a traditional mutual fund both in what instruments they traded and the methods they could use to mitigate risk and...

ktm - Not sure what you're looking for, but I get all the option scans I need by using Trade Prospector (along with equity and index futures information). Option functions include stocks with over and under priced options, contracts with unusual activity, high premium calls/puts, etc...

Stock apprentice - The last time I looked at the CBOE's free delayed quotes you end up with the final quotes from each exchange as a separate line. You then have to merge them and compute the best bid/ask across all exchanges yourself. Of course for any meaningful analysis you must use...

I believe there's an error in that spreadsheet. It's computing FV as CV * (I * Days/365) - DivRate. So it's basically computing the fair value as cash value multipled by the interest/carrying cost for the time remaining in the contract less a nickel (the 5% index dividend that's being...

Depends on the index stock/ETF you're looking at. The more popular ones like BBH and SMH and of course QQQ and SPY and fairly decent spreads. Even today during holiday trading the spread is a few cents on these (at least as I write this). But I have seen spreads as much as 25 cents on the...