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Anyway to trade / chart-read during the evening / weekend? Oanda forex is down for weekends, I cant read equity charts during the weekend. I wouldn't mind papertrading a bit for practice over the weekend, any ideas?

Are you trading prop from home? What benefit is the prop firm giving ?Leverage ? Training ? Tools? Does the prop firm train?

I think that the original poster is just recognizing the tremendous leverage of options. If his option contract is setup to increase $1 in value for every $1 that the underlying stock rises, then he is gaining 100:1 leverage. He's paying a premium for this leverage, and just like any...

How? Are they trading options/futures/stocks? How often are they buying/selling? What is the name of their style?

Yeah, I used to do simu-forex-trade, but I didnt know people were doing that with direct equities. How many trades are you doing for a given stock per day?

So you're buying and selling equities within one day. Are you making multiple buys per day? How many trades total? This is mostly chart-reading / price action trading?

What are you guys trading to yield these kind of returns? What software + symbols? Is it stocks? Appreciate any info.

Thanks a lot, that is helpful. So, S&P Futures, that is a single futures contract that is 'betting' on the value of the S&P? Do regular platforms like ThinkOrSwim allow us to plot and trade these, or is everyone using custom software/platforms?

I've seen ER, ES and Y? (YD?YP?) abbreviations before. Are these particular stocks? Also, what are eMinis? It seems as though a lot of price-action traders are using the above set.

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Other than Morningstar, what websites list implied volatility alongside option symbols? Not looking for calculator applets, but websites similar to morningstar (or similar to biz.yahoo.com option listing, but yahoo doesnt show implied volatility). Thanks a lot,

I think I have it all working now. The normal distribution part was not calculating correctly. My algorithm seems to work pretty good for most symbols, but sometimes it disagrees with morningstar.com but agrees with other option calculators. Does anyone have insight into how morningstar...

Hm, the excel implementation (the popular one that advertised as an Excel Options Workbook) is bugged. Has anyone seen other psuedo-code or source code for computing IVol?

Thanks, I found an excel implementation and will look at creating a version for my Java market analysis tool. Cheers,

Has anyone seen any algorithms / pseudo code or actual code for calculating the greeks or implied volatility? I've seen the different calculus formulas but haven't seen any code-like algorithm. Anyone else?

Check out IQFeed I've been using them for a couple months and am really happy with their API. Good service and good price as well.

I'm looking for the web's best tutorials / knowledgebases on how to day-trade / perform technical analysis. Has anyone found something really good?

ThinkOrSwim seems to offer a real-time data feed, with charting, for free if you have an account with them. I've just subscribed to a data feed because I do API programming, automated trading etc.. But for people that are using the feed to feed their charting software, why wouldnt we just...

Sorry, they are charging you $9.95? What is the $110 figure?

Wow, the more I look at think or swim the more impressed I am. I think I have found what I was looking for.