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It is pretty much all I do, what is your question?

The ATM AAPL straddle for Jan earnings is sub ~5% too...

You know I had a feeling too.... damnit. I don't think it will be a big shift either, but we shall see. Either way the 3.8% ATM straddle is not worth holding for an expiry right before earnings expiry.

Why is that? It was announced December 27th? Shouldn't it have been priced in?

Ya I am a holding a few minis on that $1,110 straddle. C'est la vie. Will close Monday most likely. They are basically flat.

Sad face: http://investor.google.com/releases/2013/1227.html "Please visit Google’s Investor Relations website at investor.google.com on January 30th, 2014 to view the earnings release prior to the conference call."

What language are you coding this in? I am assuming the text portion is going to be separate... I used this for an application I built. Works well. http://www.eztexting.com/developers/rest-api/sms/code-examples/p-h-p.html Although this is the more "professional version" and will...

OP asked about graph @ expiry as well as "daily" until then. I posted one, you post the other. Cheers.

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Here is some super sloppy code to pull Google's option data with fixed JSON. http://pastie.org/private/plnkm49uizf4eelbsedng Ignore the other functions etc... I have a more polished version at home which links up to MySQL and records all chain-data for a given array of tickers every 5...

Thoughts on trading the TWTR lock up period? It ends Feb 14th which would fall on the Feb 22nd expiry Only ~10MM shares will be freed out of 555MM outstanding, but could be a cause for some interesting movement. (That being said it is up 4% today...)

Here is your expiry P&L graph.

CapitalIQ, as of today, shows estimated January 23rd after hours.

I agree with oldnemesis. I would treat low volume options as European style when mapping out my strategy (aka waiting for expiration).

I typically roll my call to the next expiration once it has lost 85% of its value (aka you're up 85% as the seller). I try not to close them out, as a retail investor premiums eat you alive. Everyone has their rule-of-thumbs. I lever up and usually try to trade 2 lots of CC on AAPL a month...

Cool setup actually. I love the 'parallel' connections. Could've done this on threads as well. Did you write this? $multi = new CURL(); foreach($url_list as $url) { $multi->addSession($url, array(CURLOPT_HEADER => 0, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => 1)); }

I have a few more things I am working on. To help simulate some stuff. Figured I would start sharing with you guys. http://pastie.org/private/oh5ar0vac6bxf5duekhmw I have also found a few security flaws in the way Fidelity likes to access/store YOUR OWN personal data. Working on a PoC...

Well, this sucks. Had a iron condor on them. Was not expecting big movement (10%+) before January 28th the stated earnings. "Seagate Technology Announces Selected Preliminary Fiscal Second Quarter 2013 Financial Results" And it was good news, so stock jumps. The mini-report goes on...

For a free web version, I use this: http://quote.morningstar.com/Option/Options.aspx?ticker=aapl I am also in the process of programming a little PHP data scraper. To take a ticker and extract the options data in a nice CSV format from that site. I will post code when I am done ;)