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Tell us when u make 3.85% per month :) Start with some good book for example McMillan on Options. Br

Borrowing the thread a little, does anyone know how to calculate the yearly historical/statistical volatility? The method T&S are using.

Yeah the TOS analytics is pretty damn good, i tried to code something similar for IB's API but right now my application crashes randomly..

CTRL+SHIFT+PRINT Screen to capture the image into the copy buffer, then CTRL+C into paint for example.

What calculator / scanner are you using?

Whats the probaility in percent that you are within the break even limits? Br

Having written a few planning solvers i must say before going dual the first thing to do is to get a healthy amount of RAM in the computer.

IB are doing fine after the heavy commissions they collected from me last week :)

Iam scanning options chains from IB API, limitation of 100 is not so bad because you are only interested in the options with a strike quite close to the underlying price.

I have put on option trades in an automated fashion from IB API. Its nothing special only thing is there is usually a 5 cent spread to combat. Br

www.thinkorswim.com 15 days..

Thx, yes i know its a trade off, well made a good return on margin anyways had em for a few days only. Br

Reuters Microsoft tops profit forecast, sets share buyback Thursday July 20, 4:44 pm ET Stock up 6.1% Ok, what will the option be worth then? 1.50++?

To stupid question again? :) Decipher..

Hi, I saw that MSFT bounced from about 22.5 to 24 after the regular market closed. 1. Why is this? 2. What will be the price of July Call 22.5 tomorrow. (Iam having a covered call and i wanna get rid of the call option).

It takes the historical volatility, stock price and option prices evaluates all strategies, then it selects the one with the highest advantage, the highest mathematical advandtage (or probability of gain or return if you like more). It takes a snapshot of the stock and option prices so its...

I scan about 10 stocks only, so far it has not been a problem. Also its not necessary to do scan everything all the time, its more of a strategic tool.

You might wanna get the book called "Mathematics of Options trading" by C.B. REEHL. This book covers the math to search trades for expected outcome, probability of gain, mathematical advantage etc. Iam doing a scanner or more like an autotrader myself in c++ using IB's API. PM if anyone...

I have checked, i actually did 4 round trip trades, 2 stock, 2 option. They have performad an account reset. In September i will put approximately $30000 to be able to trade freely.

Hi, what is the best way to calculate historical volatility using the API? I was thinking of retreiving historical data and compute it myself. Is there any better way?