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to get dividends: look at the spot market en compare it to futures, you need to know the interest of course for that to do the math

I did it with excel 2003 .... but you could allready found out if you had tried it ... writing your question probably took longer ...

You use 'save as' that will give the CSV file. Then you open that file in excel and save it as a text file (with tab as a seperator) then you open with 'all files' this text file in Excell. There you have to klick 'comma' as a seperator. That will give you all data in the apropiate collums.

over 95% of ET would like to get that ... it won't happen ...

Thanks for pointing this out. I will use Nasdaq Composite in my longer term testing as a substiture/proxy for my testing. Yahoo Finance does have those data going back all the way to 1971 so I mixed the two indices up.

I allready got everthing after 1985 thanks to yahoo finance. However their data doesn't go back as far as I would like. If possible I would like to have this data in excell. Anyone who can help me out of can point me to a website where this could be done. I've been googling for hours now...

no point in spreading rumours when everything is working fine ...

Are you sure it's not working, mine seems to be doing fine. Try a refresh page ...

another way to do this is creating a google worksheet might work for a lot of purposes

beware of theta and vol changes, that might change the delta ... OP poster example is too simplistic but yes the delta is a good proxy to detemine the chance of getting in the money

why based in Europe ? who cares where your broker is based ...?

you can do 100 at least, even without looking at the prices on a sidenote: try to pose more intelligent questions ! ! !

you better start reading some options books if you keep asking those kinda questions ... volume is what's being traded that day, volume on bid and ask is what you can potentially trade, open intrest is all the contracts that remained open the day before.

use the 'link some text to a webpage' icon

for what it's worth: I am fully invested at this point in time ...

hahahaha this is a bullmarket ....

or the chart is just telling you you need a better quote provider ;-)

To each his own ... but it still seems to me that you are way underestimating what can go wrong ...

And NO you don't have to be trading big ! Compensating behaviour never works in trading.

just go back two weeks and read the stories of what happened to vol-sellers who thought they had invented warm water by selling vol ... a little knowledge is a dangerous thing ! You don't have to give up your dayjob to do this kinda trading but you DO need to be patient untill all things line...