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On Friday, EOD, Jul 25 calls were 0 bid, 0.05 ask, and 25 puts where 4 bid, 4.3 ask.

Not only that. You can use a Thinkback to see the option quotes for a particular date.

What's the trade date?

Right, 50, sorry.

ES is $25 per point, while SPX is $100 so a spread of 0.50 in ES is the same as the spread of 2.00 in SPX.

I've been using TOS as my primary broker for a number of years. I trade options and futures, and ocassionally stocks. It works fine for me, I'm not scalping either.

Rolling means closing out an existing position and opening a new one in a different strike and/or month. For example, you hold a long 30 call expiring in 4 days, and you want to maintain your position in a long call at the same strike. So you roll your expiring 30 call into a 30 call in the next...

If you are asking about options then this belongs in the Options forum. ISE offers FX options and YUK is the ticker for JPY.

Generally yes.

Except that the Jul 5 call on Ford is 0.14 bid, 0.15 ask. Never use the last price!

riskarb is your guy!

Sorry, can't help it, but Optionetics Platinum is way overpriced.

Thinkorswim has a papertrading platform. I think CBOE has one or two as well.

The actual max loss is equal to the difference between the strikes less premium received. This is in fantasy world as well as real world!

No, there's no way to do it. Synthetics only work with available strikes.

As mentioned, switch to TOS. Here's a screenshot:

If all you need is seeing which strikes have the highest volume then I don't see how a website can beat the broker's platform and data feed, unless your broker's platform is not very "good".

Maybe it's just me, but rather than asking a bunch of strangers, whose advice may or may not be applicable to you, why don't you ask ML about using a different platform first. They are, afterall, the best source of info on this issue (at least, at the start). Then if you are not satisfied with...

Faster and easier!? What can be easier than typing in a ticker and instantly getting the volume for each option in the chains!? Also what's faster than real-time feed? Unless, of course, you are looking for some specific data and/or format of data, not just plain voume.

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