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Thanks for that - never heard of barchart, but a quick look and it seems like it might do the job, though I'll still have to copy and paste data one day at a time into a spreadsheet. Still hoping to find a downloadable list out there somewhere...

Interesting - is that a program you wrote yourself?

Yeh I looked at finviz - I can export data if I pay $25 per month. Nothing free (or at least cheaper) out there?

Just wondering if anyone knows if it's possible to download a list of upcoming earnings reports dates for all US stocks? (I know I can get individual ones from EarningsWhispers, but I'd much prefer something I can use in a spreadsheet.) Thanks in advance.

From IB chat just now: "Margin account is available only for Corporate registered in Australia." Looks like it might be the way to go - create a company of one person and then the margin acct. According to IB I don't have to use margin in the account either.

Feel free to ask them, but I did and they said NO.

Just one (major) problem Robert - as an Australian (not sure about other countries) IB won't allow me to open a margin account. Btw using margin aren't you paying a bunch of money in interest?

Yes cash account.

I've recently started trading covered calls with Interactive Brokers and find that I can't use cash from a position I've just closed until three days afterwards due to the 'T + 3' rule. Is this the same for all the big online brokers? (I'm based in Australia btw.)

Actually I'm using batch files with gwebcmd. I must have done my downloads at a bad time before - just did them again and it took about one minute :) I tried using it with Yahoo before but kept getting timeout messages. Yahoo is useful however for saving a list of stocks and using it to copy...

I'm using Alan Ellman's 'Return on Option' formula to try and find good covered call trades, so I'll be loading them into Excel and sorting them based on that. Nasdaq.com is very slow though - took me 100 minutes to d/l data for 140 stocks!

I'm looking at using a program to download options chain data from Nasdaq.com. I'd be downloading data for several hundred companies and thus thousands of option strikes - does anyone know if that would be likely to get me banned from the site?

Yes - to quickly identify options offering good premium for covered calls trades.

Thanks for the replies! I should have mentioned I'm with Interactive Brokers and use Win 8 btw. IB's TWS API looks like it should be what I'm using - has anyone here used it to d/l option chains data?

Thanks Nano - I should have mentioned I want the Bid/Ask data as well, which Iqfeed doesn't seem to have.

Just wondering if there's a tool or script out there anywhere that would let me download option chains for a given list of stocks (between 50-100) into a text file? (Along with stock symbol and latest share price.) Thanks in advance.

Thanks Tom - yes you're correct about the paper trading, I've been doing that for several months. Right now I'm just planning to put on a token trade to try out the TWS platform. I'm using the Alan Ellman list of stocks (and his system) whereby you buy the stock and then 'negotiate' the...

Just started using IB - if you want to place a covered call trade would you use Strategy Builder, Mosaic or OptionTrader please anyone?