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If I recall correctly, I asked a Fidelity representative several years ago and the answer was no, not for individual customers, but that Fidelity was offering Health Savings Accounts in the United States as part of deals to provide employee benefits for client companies they were targeting. I...

There are so many possibilities. Your broker may have split your order among the exchanges to preserve your time precedence against identical offers arriving later. Your counter-party, which is probably software rather than human, may offer tighter spreads for small orders on the theory that...

It is obviously possible to write such software. Many brokers, such as Interactive Brokers, TD Ameritrade, and, I think, E-Trade, have programming interfaces for downloading option chains, and it is also possible to scrape them from web sites, such as finance.yahoo.com or nasdaq.com. You might...

I don't know of any open source software specifically for this from memory. However, for the statistics you want, you should be able to use Libre Office (localc). [Edit: I should add that this and other spreadsheet programs I have used support a "stdev" function, which should slightly simplify...

I realize that my pointer about VMIN is not useful to tacosplz's original questions, but, just in case it might be relevant to anyone else, and because I would rather not leave my last post with the remark "I am having trouble finding this anywhere online", I'll mention that VMIN has apparently...

Thank you, Robert. That definitely makes the idea of opening a Lightspeed account at some point in the future much more interesting to me.

I have never seen such data either, until I came across COBWeb (the service I mentioned). I would be interested in any data, but more interested in orders placed and their eventual disposition (fills and cancellations), and more interested still in near real time market data (current open orders).

http://www.cboe.com/cob offers some free access to the Chicago Board of Exchange's complex order book for US equity options during regular trading hours. Outside of regular trading hours, it is just a static web page. Does anyone know of any other free or cheap complex order book (that is...

I am having trouble finding this anywhere online, but I was recently told that VMIN is expected to go ex-dividend on December 27, 2017, with a dividend speculated to be at about ~25% of the current (October 2017) price, and that that ETF's business structure involves a Cayman Islands...

https://www.ishares.com/us/literature/tax-information/2016-ishares-distribution-summary-is-20079-0117.pdf page 40 column 16 suggests that 100% of EWU's 2016 divdends were foreign income for some US tax purpose, although I don't know if it works for your purpose and if this will be approximately...

I'm sorry I misread your original post, which even mentioned EXIV. I'll try to be more careful in the future.

I don't think they're very popular yet, but EVIX and an inverse version, EXIV, are US ETF's that, I believe, are supposed to track European VSTOXX volatility index futures.

About a decade ago, I used to buy from deltaneutral.com and eoddata.com. One of them stopped providing bid and ask numbers for US equity options, only providing open, high, low, and close. I hope that that problem has been fixed since then.

This graph looks wrong to me because, if I were to draw more lines of "in the money" and "out of the money" options by adding lines for strikes gradually getting closer to the money, I would expect "at the money" to be some sort of convergence between "in the money" and "out of the money", which...

I think that is usually true if you mean "faster" as a percentage of the price of the option rather than the price of the underlying, but not if you mean for a given amount of underlying. The premium of all options goes to zero at expiration, and, unless we're dealing with very high...

I don't have any kind certification to advise anyone on any kind of financial matter, but my layman's understanding is that getting flat at the end of the year is only a right answer if both accounts have the same owners and taxation--that is, both are ordinary taxable accounts or both are...

Several years ago, I subscribed to eoddata.com and deltaneutral.com, each of which offered daily comma separated variable (".csv") files via file transfer protocol ("FTP"), which I believe I mirrored under Linux using wget with "ftp://hostname/file" URL's. Perhaps you could do the same with...

Herkfsu, your original understanding is essentially correct. In a perfectly liquid market (bid=ask for everything), the vertical put spread and the corresponding vertical call spread should have the same greeks, so should always move in value by the same amount at all times, including through...

Thank you for providing a link to the article, which contains a link to that 2010 Washington State court decision about one of 3-4 partners being forced of a car dealership deal by the others voting to reduce the number of shares in the business to four, for, I think, no other reason than to...

I'm not any kind of expert, but I think there may be United States income tax advantages in some cases, such as avoiding Unrelated Business Income Tax (UBIT) in some trusts, including retirement accounts. In a taxable US account, perhaps there might be advantages for using options to avoid...