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Thanks every for replying. http://finviz.com/screener.ashx (which is a screener for stocks and ETFs). I am looking something similar where I can screen or sort the next month options by their 10 day or 20 day performance etc. @Robert Morse - is there a way to explore the LightSpeed screener...

similar to http://finviz.com/screener.ashx (which is for stock) Is there any dashboard/screener for options, where I can filter by volumn/performance etc ?

I didn't know that Quandl data is free..Thanks a lot !

Hi, I am looking for online resource (paid/free) that can provide basic technical analysis like MA(nPeriod), RSI, MACD etc. I don't have data nor I have ability to write a program to do the calculation myself. If there is website or a service with API that will ease my work I looked at...

Lot of ideas to read and understand - Thank you all

it is not simple - I figured that out. The issue I am trying to deal with is, I typically buy based on 20/200 MA cross over, sometime when markets are hot and if I buy the hot stocks that is a lot to loose, in such situation ..I would like to hedge such positions for a month or 2 (depending on...

I understand what you are saying. When I look-up any book or website, they always have lot of material around various strategies. However, I deal with only stocks and I am looking at options to cut the risks (manage draw downs) and to that extent, I thought I will use options - if you have any...

Hi, If I have a long position in a particular stock, and wish to hedge that position using put options - what factors to consider and should the options contract should be as equal as stock units ?

thank you all - so I basically sell the option before expiry or take stocks if I want to hold even longer than expiry day. Now I sort of get it :)

Can someone help me understand this. Per this article - http://www.theoptionsguide.com/long-call.aspx In the "Example" section it says - "Say you were proven right and the price of XYZ stock rallies to $50 on option expiration date. With underlying stock price at $50, if you were to exercise...

thank you all - will start reading - "Beginners Strategies" and do what "Jones75" has suggested.

Hi, I am trying learn options through paper trading, so if you want to really help use basic terms and spell them fully. If I think XYZ stock will go up, by about 10% in next 10-30 days and if it doesn't go up - I will get rid of it at the end of 30 days - in such situation what options...

I said so, so that one can clarify what instruments to use and when. xandman and others - Thank you, for your comments and suggestions.

If I trade stocks, I cannot leverage - isn't ? - as I understand margin trades are close at the EOD. My questions is - I know the direction of the stock, and want some leverage and should be able to hold that position for about 3-6 months.

Why Futures ? - simply because I see that the value of future increases with the value of the underlying asset/stock(and decreases with value). With options, I am confused as to use buy/sell PUT or CALLs to stay long on the stock, in my case MSFT.

I read what are the differences between Options and Futures, what I am not understanding is to use Options or Futures when my case is "I think MSFT (currently traded around 43) will go up, not sure how much, but will go up and want to allow a time period of 3-6 months" With this situation...

And thanks for everyone's ideas and comments

Replying to couple of replies in single post: southall: I have last 10 year daily EOD, for about 2000 symbols. When I said slow the issue was with dynamic SMA or RSI calculation for different parameters. What Java backtester are you using - is it custom code ? any pointers/sample code would...

Since I know SQL - I started from there. I wrote a simple back-testing using "Simple Moving Average" and running it against S&P 500 symbols. From Raw data (from Yahoo finance for last 10 years) processing to calculating SMA and running a simulated trades it took about 20 minutes on my laptop...

Thanks for everyone's reply on this thread. I could have considered TradeStation but my need is not the speed of trading but want to use automation to take emotion out of the business and also to avoid mundane task of monitoring the market closely. Plus currently I am with window based...