Did you notice on the Option House "smart execution" that each individual put or call has the 9.95 minimum. So on the 4 legged spread that is illustrated there is a commission of 39.80. Not as good as they make it sound.
yeah i can see why you your going to IB. i'm a TOSer but options arn't worth more than IB charges. TOS and OX needs to get down to < than a dollar or IB will continue to take the traders.
dan
from the cover jacket i'd say it is very similar to the 1994 Option Volatility & Pricing. since i have the 1994 i would't buy this one.
there is also a DVD Mastering Option Trading Volatility Strategies which i bought online from the bernie schaeffer site for $9.95.
Natenberg is a...
go to analyze or trade tab. upper right of the page. push the little blue down arrows. set up theo price or whatever you want on the options.
go to help and go to the narrated walkthroughs.
don't know how serious you are about playing options, Rocko. if you are going to jump in, you need a broker that will automatically give you the IV, HV and the greeks in RT.
i use TOS, there are others.
dan
power options is at: www.poweropt.com. you can use their setups or make you own. $60 a month, 14 day free trial.
not assocated with PO-just had fun there.
used to feel the same way. for seven years now have been with web only sites. no b&m.
now with tos a very good site. have to admit they never finish anything in there java program though. constant beta.
have been selling IC's for a long time and can't remember when i was really satisfied with the risk/reward of the spx.
if you just look at the spx vs rut for instance you will see that the r/r is almost always much better for rut. haveing listened to dan sheridan you know he refers to rut a lot...
yes i was with OptionsXpress for two years. their vertial is better than nothing but i am with Thinkorswim now. much better analyze and charting program. can nego commision.
dan
only if you have to play the indexs. from day to day you can place option trades on stocks with IV > 100 and a HV of ~35. from 8 to > 100 there got to be a lot of good sells and spreads.
Have been using it for three of four years. If you have an optionXpress account you can download anything you want. It has the OX get built in. If you trade thru TOS you can download with TOS's DDE anything also.
The most important thing is that you can use Hodley's functions in Excel as you...