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In line with what the others have replied, if in the real world they're filling only at actual B/A prices then with stock B, you have a 40 cent loss at the starting gate. Simulators that fill at the midpoint are a disservice to wannabe traders :)

Deciding what content is acceptable and what isn't on a public bb is kinda pathetic too. You can do better than this... or at least you have in the past.

Xflat, you post once in 5 months and this is your return to ET contibution? What's with the chip on your shoulder? Of all the people here, no one retired at a very young age? No one here beats the markets? No one here pays the bills from trading? To loosely quote what you've written...

Perhaps you should instruct them to buy (or sell) at the price from 10 seconds ago :)

But what if it's a slow gradual decline and it doesn't get near 100 until expiration week? Perhaps what the Jan 128p is worth now? OMG, I got skewed!!!! :eek:

No way, no how What you might make would depend on when the SPY hit 100. Sooner, you might make 10-20X, depending on what IV does. Much later, much less,

There was a John Tesh blurb on the radio last night about some Brit scientist who has concluded that Facebook and Twitter infantilize the mind resulting in short attention spans, inability to empathize and a shaky sense of identity. Ya know, a lotta people liked baby talk long before Facebook...

SINCE WHEN ????? :D :eek: :p :D

Sorry, I'm not familiar with IQ feed. Two years ago I briefly looked around for another data feed when I bumped up against IB's limit (a DDE/Excel request counts towards it) but stopped after finding a work around sol'n.

I can name that option quote in 2 pages, no less: https://www.optionsxpress.com/OXNetTools/Chains/index.aspx?SessionID=&Symbol=SPY&Range=4&lstMarket=0&ChainType=&AdjNonStdOptions=OFF&lstMonths=&FromVB6=True Quote request for only PUTS or only CALLS will get you LAST, CHG, B, A, HIGH, LOW...

A positional trader with a longer term outlook (days for a swing trader or perhaps a month for an option writer) doesn't need a lot of bells and whistles. But a decisive day short term trader with a system and more visual requirements needs every tool available to reduce the time it takes to...

Compared to '08 and '09, 2010 was a tough year to trade. Maybe it's time to prepare and market that "Get Rich Quick With Options" course. :D

Does this have anything to do with a joystick??? :)

LOL. I doff my toupee to those who put up with being yanked :)

You have something against clumping ???

C is more of an exception because its options are highly liquid and have penny increments. Options of most cheapo stocks have Holland Tunnel spreads (10-20-30 cts) and that's a lot to make up whereas the UL's spread may be only 1-5 cts. And if one doesn''t have 5G to trade a 1,000 shares...

Hack into their internet banking accounts :D

I think that you have to be careful that they don't ascend.

Hey! You stole my line! ::)

Hey! Found it and appreciate it because I had that in my Excel and it's nice to be able to see it on the same screen. Hate to bother you again but do you know if opening a chart can be put in a Hotkey (either the daily or the longer Marketwatch chart)? TIA