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hmm i don't think that's the case. i use IB's format which is yyyymmdd, so 20110901 works but 20110801 does not (both weekdays). frustrating...

Is anyone else experiencing problems pulling historical data past september of last year? I've had no problems pulling up to a calendar year of data in the past, but all of a sudden I'm getting errors when trying to pull more than 6 months. The errors I'm getting are either that the data...

100(Option Volume) 101(Option Open Interest) 104(Historical Volatility) 105(Average Opt Volume) 106(Option Implied Volatility) 107(Close Implied Volatility) 125(Bond analytic data) 165(Misc. Stats) 166(CScreen) 225(Auction) 232/221(Mark Price) 233(RTVolume) 236(inventory)...

I barely passed. Options was a very small part from my recollection. The hardest part of the exam for me were the details of the regulations / microstructure that were never mentioned in the manual. I saw more than a few questions with two or more choices that made sense. Speaking of which...

The CBOE/Options Institute manual blows. I took the test today and I'd say 1/4 of the questions were fresh to me. Completely fresh. If you include the questions for which the material was barely mentioned in passing in the manual, I'd say I had to make educated guesses on a good 1/3 of the exam...

I'm still trying to figure out why EUR/USD dropped so hard yesterday (9/21) after the Fed's announcement of operation twist. I've heard the argument that more banks, central or otherwise, piled into the USD as a haven while also cutting back on holding more EUR reserves since August. While...

I'm still trying to figure out why EUR/USD dropped so hard yesterday (9/21) after the Fed's announcement of operation twist. I've heard the argument that more banks, central or otherwise, piled into the USD as a haven while also cutting back on holding more EUR reserves since August. While...

Hello all, First time poster here , but I hope to return to this forum often. Just a quick background of myself, I'm a newbie to trading, but I do have some fundamentals in finance such as basic options pricing, some fundamental analysis, knowledge of risk/return measures (sharpe, treynor). I...