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Thanks for the input. I need to do some more analysis.

I've been trading options for >4 years - now mainly selling PUTs on XSP. I've started trying PUT Broken Wing Butterflys on SPX and I have a newbie question. I'm looking at the trade in two parts: (1) When I place the trade I receive a small credit; (2) If the price stays above the Short Put...

I have been trading Options on the IBKR platform for about 4 years now. I have "evolved" to trading mostly SPY and Short PUTs. I haven't used a Stop in the past - I haven't felt the need until now. The market is pretty volatile and subject to a sudden drop. I live in Australia and trade in the...

Makes sense. When it works it's pretty good - its a shame. I'm trying to rationalise some of my subscriptions. IB has most of what I need - just not good enough - like TradingView for charting.

Thanks Tony - The YouTube version is pretty good. I'll check it out when the market is open.

I've started to enjoy watching Bloomberg while trading downunder in Australia. However the service is inconsistent. Sometimes it doesn't start up at all. Not sure what its doing - I have plenty of capacity on my computer and use Starlink. Not sure why the service is intermittent. I've looked at...

Maybe a silly question - but what drives the S&P price? Is it the aggregate price of all the underlying stocks or is it trading in the ETF itself? Maybe is a combination of the two?

Tricks for beginners - I've been using TWS > 3years and still something to learn! :-)

Great thank you!!! Not sure what I did to set it to daily!

I have been using the beta version of TWS but today I deleted and downloaded the 'latest'. Didn't change the IV value.

The values for Implied Volatility displayed on TWS are very low. For example, NFLX is currently showing 3.3% whereas the actual IV% is 53.29%. Is there a problem or am I missing something?

I've worked in the IT industry for >30 years. I started off trying to use Mosaic. I found it very complex and switched to Classic which I'm now very comfortable using. I'm an Options Trader and there are a few things that irritate me (eg. when you roll a trade the window is pegged/ attached and...

Thanks - just taking a look. IB has so many features it takes time to get to know them all.

I'm trading options on the IB platform currently using Classic TWS. I extract the reports I need for analysis/progress using Activity Flex Queries. I use two reports regularly: Open Positions; and Trades - MTD or YTD My questions: The reports lag 'real-time'. I'm guessing the reports are...

Thanks for your input and suggestions. I've done a bit of research since and thought I'd just post some of my findings in case someone else has the same questions I had at the time. There is a great resource on Reddit that covers the topic in detail.

I have a few CSPs that are ITM. They still have 29 DTE. I'm a relative newbie and I've never had stocks assigned. Can the stocks be assigned at any time or is it more likely to happen in (say) the last 5 days? Are there other criteria I need to consider - like depth ITM? If a CSP is ~10% in...

https://groups.io/g/insync/topics is a good start

I had the same problems on my Mac so I revived an old Windows machine running Windows 7. I was running Magnet - I didn't try to remove it. TWS works fine on the Windows machine. I run one screen on the Windows machine and two on the Mac (plus notebook). The Windows machine is an i7-2600K with...

I've recently subscribed to elitetrader and I've just read this thread. I am very much a newbie Options Trader. After ~ 18mths I categorise myself as consciously incompetent. We are fairly restricted in Australia. We can trade options with a local broker on the local market and pay ~ USD17...