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I have watched one but it was a link provided by the chart help and I have no idea where the others are located. Are they on youtube?

I have an account with both. I must admit I really hate the TWS charting capabilities. Something I like doing is to click and drag the chart around, horizontally and vertically. But you can only click and drag horizontally so I'm continually drawing fuckin trend lines everywhere lol. Also the...

I am in exactly the same boat as you. Are you moving your account to IB as well? Do you trade currencies, futures, shares, options?

You haven't heard of the 'karen' ? From Wikipedia : Karen is a slang term that is used to typify a woman perceived to be entitled or demanding beyond the scope of what is considered appropriate or necessary. One of the most common Karen stereotypes is that of a white middle-aged woman, typically...

And he's married to a Karen..

If you Google pictures of the inside of the concorde flight deck all you see is buttons and switches and lights and levers everywhere except for the only place you can't place something... the windows. TWS is like that. Complicated. And the charting capabilities are neanderthal. That's how I...

Prt is very easy and intuitive. TWS has a steep learning curve but damn it has everything you need in one package. Stocks,options,futures,currencies, and probably more. Be prepared for high levels of frustration though.

What do you mean they can afford to pressure the bid because they are up huge on the spx edge?

Is it theocc.com you are using? What do you use that for?

Thanks JBuck Im certainly not going to trade any options at the moment. Just trying to familiarize myself with IB workstation whilst also attempting to understand options using mainly the following resources: https://www.theoptionsguide.com/ https://www.optionseducation.org/...

Lets say Im bullish Royal Dutch Shell (RDSB) and I create a bull call spread as in the attached screenshot. There is a 'size' column which shows: Buy = 288 x 273 Sell = 2 x 109 Bull call = 109 x 2 And then when I look at the profile chart it tells me that the size is 117 x 2 What do these mean?

Does anyone here pay a subscription for barchart? Looks like quite a few people use it for options analysis.

I cant figure that one out. Here is a screenshot of TWS with a straddle setup. Current price = 2926 Straddle price = 2970 IV at 2970 = 22.2% By that formula: 2920*1.22 = 3562 3562-2920 = 642 That seems too big. Even if I divide by 2 I get a 321 range. For a 2 day range this doesnt look right.

If I have this right then the calculation works by substituting in the remaining days until expiry. Going on the data from barchart : 1 = 38 days to expiry 2 = 23.6 IV 3 = 2920 strike .236*sqrt(38/255)*2920 = 266 points. So according to the options world, a single deviation range on ES...

trading days = presume excluding weekends * price = Current option price of the strike Im looking at? IV = 25.6 (screenshot) Trading days = 162 (remaining for 2020) Price = 124.10 (Ask price at 2880 strike) 25.6*sqrt(162/255)*124.10 = 2532.206 What am I doing wrong here? I would expect...

Total options beginner here. Platform = Interactive Brokers TWS (delayed data) Instrument = SPX When I set the chart to display 2 standard deviation it plots the range (the blue pattern on the right of the chart) which in this case is between 2775 and 3100. The calculation I am using is...

What platform are you using? I'm starting to learn options. Currently looking at TWS with interactive brokers delayed data.

Oh lawd. Captain hindsight right here calling everyone a simpleton for buying the lows. Just calm down dude. You are very very clever OK? Lol.

How else do you do it?

Takes a lot of effort to maintain a journal. I think traders stop posting once they start getting profitable. I think that once a person sees how simple it really is there is nothing left to write about. The words just kind of leave you. It becomes less talking and more doing. Also, to call...