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Actually, OEX is american and is also pit-traded. XEO is the european counter-part of the OEX.

Don't know. I doubt you'll be able to get free intra-day data anywhere.

You'll have to calculate correlation yourself using the historical prices on finance.yahoo.com

No worries. I think it would be a major blow to the US and it would definitely undermine the US' position in the world economy.

Crude priced in Eurodollars?:confused: It's either euros or dollars, you can't price in eurodollars as those are just dollars.

Tis thred ist reeeely fani. :D :D :D

No, not yet.

I got 35.78% on Thinkorswim.:D Different sources may be using different models, different quotes (some using bid, others ask or mid)... Thinkorswim's default is mid-point and Bjerksund-Stensland model.

It's $1,500 or so. Real-time data is extra.

It really depends on what features you need to trade. Bloomie is really handy cause it has all the info you can imagine (well almost everything) at your finger tips. Yes, you can trade thru Bloomie, but not sure about IB (check with IB and/or Bloomie) Btw, Bloomie charts are not that great.

Exactly, you can just press and hold CTRL and then click on the bids/asks of any number of options in the chains you like to get any spread you want.

Unless you are trading 1 contract you can usually trade less contracts closer to ATM for the same max loss.

I see, well, then technically it's not an options spread, but that's just semantics. Staying far OTM isn't always a good thing as I mentioned above. Instead of loading up on cheap far OTM calls you may wanna consider buying a lesser amount of closer to ATM calls or even ITM depending on your...

Looking at the historical implied volatility is one way of doing it. You can also comapre IV with historical volatility. Or do any combination of the two approaches. You can chart IV for the stock as well as the individual option in THinkorswim. The further out you go the higher the...

I usually just leave it as it is. The volatility that caused the index to move against me can bring it back in. I size my position so that I can take a max loss on it. Not sure where you're getting 20:1 ratio. The spread is trading at 0.27 and it's 1-point wide. So let's say it's 0.20 to...

Enter ticker to see contract adjustment notes on CBOE.

Actually it's not a bad position. You might have a hard time getting filled at the mid of 0.27, but 0.20-0.25 may be achievable. As the previous poster mentioned, generally you want these to expire rather than closing out.

Optionsxpress and Thinkorswim both have paper trading platforms.

A collar makes sense when you already hold the stock position and need to temporarily hedge it. In this case, you would use a collar since there's no point in selling the stock and then opening a vertical. If you're starting flat though then generally you'd be better off trading the vertical.

If you want accurate historical volatility then just take historical prices and calculate it yourself, then you'll know for sure which volatility it is.