Hoadley Trading & Investment Tools... ???

Quote from cdcaveman:

i wanted a tool that i could mess with every assumption.. thats why i got hoadleys thing for 130 bucks.. i've been looking for other things that are a little more intuitive to use... but i'm figuring in the long run i'm going to have to become fluent with pulling data into excel and graphing it 6 ways from sideways.. my only thoughts are use trade station or think or swim .. they seem to have alot of options graphing stuff.. . get excel going with hoadley.. or i'll keep looking.. trust me i'm going to find something.. only cause i'm not going to stop looking
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I've had an account with TOS for a while,
partly for the free live squawk box [s&p futures],
but I also can't find anything that gives me a
relatively quick % Return on options, that I can annualize.

thanks
marc
 
Quote from justrading:

When you've used it for awhile, would greatly appreciate a first hand review.

I am looking at options and that includes a reasonably priced tool like this. So far on paper at least it seems to be the best value for money.
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well the tools that come with Hoadley are very worth it .
 
Quote from cdcaveman:

well the tools that come with Hoadley are very worth it .
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I get a strong feeling you like Hoadley :p

I found a Trade & Probability Calculator
over at OptionsXpress, that may do what I was looking for...

marc
 
Can anyone using the Hoadley kit and trading Futures Options please share info on what data feed you are using?

I am on the Rithmic feed and Hoadley has just confirmed that it cannot hook up.

He suggested either paying separately for data or opening an account with OptionsXpress.

I do not see the value of paying for data when I already have the Rithmic feed, might as well open another broker account and get the Futures Options data that way.

Interactive Brokers comes to mind, especially for the many exchanges I will be able to trade.

Comments and advice please?
 
i wanna trade options on futures! haha... all i do know is that the ib data coming into excel finance add in is super slow.. super slow..
 
Quote from cdcaveman:

i would love a good data feed.. as far as ib is concerned.. during trading hours they are decent.. but otherwise they must be throttling their data stream .
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From what I have read, the IB feed is filtered. Not a big deal unless tick data is significant in your calculations. Also, it does not provide Futures Options Chains.

I will have to look into Hoadley's suggestions in greater detail, and I will probably post what I find here.

Off the bat I can't see myself paying $12.99/contract base rate commissions to OptionsXpress when IB charges $0.85, nor can I see myself paying $250 in monthly fees to Barcharts to get the CME/CBOT/NYMEX feeds.

I'm looking to swing trade options, holding for days - weeks, not doing 20 contracts a day as it were, so I need to find something sensible that meets my needs.
 
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