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If the stock is at 47 and you buy the 45 straddle you are in essence bullish. If you buy the 50 straddle you are bearish. Your other option is to buy a strangle which would be to buy the 45 put and the 50 call. The reason most straddle "lose money" is because the breakeven point can...

I am familiar with them and they are very good, but I am looking for a listing I can import into a spreadsheet. Thanks

Haven't tried it but you can use Peg Primary as long as it is direct routed to BRUT.

More time periods. Meaning, Allow 1,3,5,10, 15 minute charts for 10 days. Allow 15 minute for a month. Allow 1 hour for 6 months. I like your idea of adjusting the size of volume. IB Charts take up a ton of display space.

Where can I find a list of options with their IV & the percentile. I usually get the data from http://www.optionstrategist.com/free/analysis/data/index.html but his data is the IV of only the front month option. I need a list that either can give me 2 month IV or an avg of 1st & 2nd...

I assume you are talking the calls. I am a beginner... What do you look at or calculate, to see that this is even money trade? Thank you.

I just got in from the US. CL - Up 0.26 @56.57 ES - Up 1.50 @1418

What type of spread would you do in such a situation having no feeling one way or the other. Buy a calendar? Sell a Calendar? Diagonal?

Web Trader says "Our apologies, there has been IB server error" It would be nice if the TWS had some message too.

Can't connect from US :-( Maybe if they didnt turn their servers off on the weekend for maint. they wouldnt have problems turning them back on!!

Yes, that is correct

No Problem :-) Are you able to explain to me how you projected IV? Are you targeting Implied Volatility to reach the peak Historical 30 Day Volatility that was reached in mid october? Also what type of trade are you doing to capture the increase in Volatility? Straddle / Strangle or...

Im sorry, I didnt mean that I entered the trade three months ago. I meant to say just because there was an IV spike last quarter does it mean this quarter will also have one. I am thinking that maybe an IV spike only happens when the last quarter had an increase in real volatility...

One more thought / question. Take a company like DNA. Its IV ran up in Sept - Oct from 23 to 33. Then nothing really happened by the earnings release so does that mean this quarter we should expect it to rise again to 33 or will the IV rise only slightly. Another example would be...

What does the option picture for NMX tell you and what is a limited risk strategy for an option picture like NMX? I know I call sell the puts but i usually prefer verticals spreads so my risk is defined. I personally dont have a strong feeling up or down on the stock but I am more looking at...

I use tradelog. I dont do covered calls so I am not sure how they handle it.

It could be that the IV chart is showing front month and the IV rise only happens once the front month is the month of the earnings release? For example, The Jan options are staying flat because the earnings announcement will be lets say Jan 30th, after they expire. It is really the Feb...

I dont trade index options but i trade regular options and just started using Tradelog. Their tech support was really helpful answering questions and they seem eager to make sure their software works. I would email them and see what they say. They do have a Mark to Market version...

If you have two video cards, meaning you can plug in two monitors to your computer then you can go into display properties and it will show two monitors attached. You click on monitor #2 and there is a click box below that says "extend my desktop to this monitor" and then you will have two...

Are you looking at the Bid / Ask or at the Last? The last is probably old because it is thinly traded.