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First, my thanks to all who posted constructive answers to my question. Here's what I think you are saying: There's no need to set a bid/ask or price for the spread per se. If you are writing a bear call spread (for example), you simply use limits to set the minimum you will accept for the...

Thanks for your suggestions. Mr. Rooney, these will be verticals on ETFs, equities and indices, no futures. Any place else I can go to get bid/asks on those? I've been doing vertical credit spreads for years, but these were EXISTING spreads found on ToS Spread Hacker, not newly created...

I want to write a new vertical credit call spread and offer it for sale. But I have no idea how to set my asking price, and I have not found anything on this subject in the literature. Suggestions would be most welcome.

I am so grateful for the willingness to share experience and knowledge which you folks have shown. Hope I can share some of my meager stock some day.

Wow, I had no idea that I could do that with Excel. I'll try to learn how to use it for this. Any tips on how to do so would be appreciated. Thanks very much!

Thanks very much for your thoughtful replies. Please forgive my ignorance, but what is "RTD"?

I trade vertical call spreads. My system starts with a series of scans. Some of the scans use Thinkorswim tools (e.g., Spread Hacker), exporting the results to a file, which then becomes the input for scans I have written in Visual Basic. The end result of the process is usually five to ten...