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I usually trade Futures and Futures Options. Can you please comment on the following. It seems that if you buy/sell At The Money options that at that point the Bid and Ask spread are probably much tighter than when the same options go Out of the money. Same with volume. The further OTM the...

Jim, Please do not feel bad. I truly am not lazy. However, keeping data maintained for 7,000 assets is a very large job and then with adding data for Option Chains it's just tremendous. I appreciate your feedback. You made me look at why I do want a commercial data feed(s). Remember, I...

>>I think that you are being scammed. You should be able to make your own continuous contracts using MS-Excel. << Jim, There are many Futures Markets and to make continuous contracts and maintain is more work than I want to do. Now, add to that maintaining an Options History database...

Jim, I have been that route. It may exist for others, but not for my requirements. I like the continuous contracts that eSignal provides. Makes it much easier to back test and not have to concatenate each contract as it's expiring. Other vendors can provide data such as Yahoo. Except...

Jim, Not exactly. I pay eSignal $300 a year for EOD data that I can access after all of their data after the market closes. This gives me access to all data available. Just not during market hours. I presently download this data into WealthLab which is my back testing platform for testing my...

Jim, OptionVue maintains a history database of all Futures and commodities for 6 years. So I can manually go back for a 6 year period and track my buy and sell decisions on options. Very few vendors offer any facility at all for back testing options. Even OptionVue really just maintains a...

Jim, I am a mechanical trader. I back test all of my trading systems and so I need access to data. The nice thing about eSignal is they also have a feature called a Continuous contract (for the futures market), which is what I specialize in. So that I don't have to manually tie all of my...

I don't like to pay the high fees for eSignal real time. A tech rep told me they have partners with some brokers so that if you use the partner broker you can get reimbursed for your eSignal data feed either all or in part. Obviously, you have to make enough trades. Anyway, I went to the...

I presently use a deep discout broker. However, they do not handle any pit traded options. In addition, they do not handle any futures commodity options. I may want to switch to another deep discount broker. Who do you recommend for for deep discount for Futures Commodities options for...

In the past, OptionVue5 has charged for all tech support. So that I try to explore "free" avenues to get my tech support questions answered. I contact the Vendor as a last resort, because of their fees for tech support. PS. I think I noticed that OptionVue5 is a sponsor of this forum, so I...

I have OptionVue5 Pro version 1.84. I have quotes display on ES M7 I click on price chart. When I display volatility. It seems that volatility lines only go back to February 07. 1) How can I fix it,so that when I display the price chart, the volatility goes back to 2006? I...

SadSack, I have the Pro version, however, I don't really use these features. The reason I purchased OptionVue5 several years ago, was because of it's back testing history database and my forecast that the software has many more capabilities that I can learn to grow into. However, after...

New$, From what I have observed with IB as my broker. IB usually trades options on all of their minis. That's why I asked about this. When I brought this up to IB. They did not have an answer for me. I am not sure if there are electronic minis on options. I do know that QM futures are...

New$, Thanks for the link. I'll check it out. larryTAKEOUT@seldin.net

New$, What about QM. They are the mini Futures and also there is QM options. IB (trades the futures but not the futures options). I would think IB could trade them because they are electronic? Could you please tell me about ICE? Thank you. larryTAKEOUT@seldin.net

I have been trading for several years. I wanted to know if there are any trading groups in Long Island, NY. BTW, I am going to the Trader Expo in NYC in February. Thanks much, larryTAKEOUT@seldin.net

My strategies use Futures and Options. Interactive Broker usually trades Globex and other Electronic Futures. However, for some reason, IB does not trade Crude Oil Future Options or e-mini Crude Oil Futures Options. Does anybody know why? Is there any other symbols for Crude Oil Options...

I normally do trades that last from 1 to several months. Recently, I have been testing a short term strategy. I realize the odds are better with longer term systems, however, I wanted feedback on the topic that I mentioned. Thank you for your feedback. larryTAKEOUT@seldin.net

Here is the topic. I trade Futures and Futures Options. Since the Futures are basically 24 hours traded with more trading done during normal trading hours, I ended up filtering data for normal trading hours (as a day trading choice). However, I quickly did not see the correct momentum...

Steve, Thank you for the info. larryTAKEOUT@seldin.net