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For those interested, I got the answer to my question. The NAV for these Buffered ETF's are not a function of the index they track (SPX, in my example), but rather a function of the options bought and sold during the entirety of the outcome period (in example above, 1 year).

Hi all, With the equity markets having ripped upward to extreme levels the last year+, I want to invest in some Buffered ETF's in my 401K and IRA accounts. For those not familiar with them, there are varying types that allow for x% downward buffer, with a corollary y% upward cap, for a given...

I've used them all, and Medved Trader (MT) is hands down the best charting program out there. I've been using them for 3+ years now, but I was also a long-time QuoteTracker user, until TDA shut it down. MT is so much more than a charting platform though. Provides broker independence, multiple...

Yes, I second that. Medved scanner (along with the rest of the products' features) is phenomenal and extremely versatile. You can do a lot with the native non-programmable scanning features, but it is extremely customizable with their enhanced C++ interface. Only issue is that once you invoke...

I too would highly recommend IB for your streaming data ($10/mo) and Medved Trader for highly customizable charts ($ 20/mo or $ 15/mo if you pre-pay for the year). Medved is amazing and provides you with charting, trading (both platform trading independence and data feed independence)...

A broker calls me yesterday and tells me about this great stock at 60 cents a share. I say "terrific, buy me 10,000 shares." He calls me back 10 minutes later and says it's up to 70 cents a share. I say, "Wow, buy me another 10,000 shares." He calls back a few minutes later and says it's now...

I don’t blindly party-follow blithering idiots. Economy isn’t doing appreciably better under this idiot than under the last idiot. Job gains are the same, debt is continuing to mount, the country is more divided than ever, and the administration has become a world embarrassment. But it’s easy to...

I’m a Republican you pathetic arse! Quit deflecting my arguments to Obama. I know you barely graduated high school, but seriously?? The 1.5TT was a gift to corporations and stockholders and NFP has been in a flatline from last few years, and wages have barely budged forward. Creation of $15/hr...

Bite-sized deliverables; not an all-out war against the world. The pure ignorance is putting your faith in a guy who could never balance his checkbook, and screwed debtors out of their cash every time he ran his business into the ground. His deficit spending tax plan is leading us to the same...

Agreed. Several large mistakes that Trump is making: - Instead of focusing on the most important China imbalance, he's gone to war with everyone; classic egotistical mistake in the spirit of checking off boxes; - He is alienating our staunchest of supporters, which can only come around to...

Looks like only some canned scanners and they're pushing their chat room. Need to give them an Email Address to garner further info. I'm looking for flexible, programmatic scans. Tos (via ThinkScript) or MT (noted above) look like the clear cut winners in the scanning area to me

OK, Medved Trader is the answer. Great, customizable, real-time scanner. Requires a data source, of course, but for me, either TD or IB will serve that purpose.

I’m an IB Day Trader and decided to try and make use of their Market and Mosaic scanners. To my dismay, neither scanner seems to support RSI threshold filters (for example, RSI<20) and elementary filtering on comparison of adjacent bar prices (for example, BarClose[0] < BarClose[-1]). Am I...

Yeah, have a backup source is good. I will probably build a backup using my IB or TD Ameritrade feeds. FYI, there's an old command line utility called WebFetch.exe, which you can probably hunt around for, which could assist in the automation within a command line script.

Yes, but a little pricey for my needs. Thanks.

Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best......great idea. I was going to build a DDE-based spreadsheet to use with my IB feed, but I like your idea; thanks for that! Didn't know that their portfolio feature was exportable like that. This solves a couple of my problems right away...

Yup, just a pain in the ass. I only need about 50 tickers (stocks and ETF's) on an EOD basis, but this drives my portfolio, a couple of Wealthlab trading scripts (which are now dead in the water, since it's WL 4.0 - unless I convert from native WL to ASCII upload), and my semi-annual 401K...

Oh boy, I just tried to run a simple download query: http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=xrx+vz+frp+bls&f=sl1d1t1c1ohgv&e=.csv and now I get the message, "It has come to our attention that this service is being used in violation of the Yahoo Terms of Service. As such, the service...

I've scraped in my youth, and although a fun programming exercise, the problem is that when websites change format (and Yahoo does this often), your scrape code usually needs to change along with it. I gave up scraping a long time ago, because it just wasn't worth the maintenance headache.

I did see those posts, and I believe (and I might be wrong), that those users were directly using Yahoo! data on their websites, which is a breach of terms of service. Then again, the wording of "the service is being discontinued" is worrisome. Here's hoping that this Yahoo Admin just doesn't...