Old issues of Option Traders Magazine

Terabytes of stuff, but I don't believe Option Trader Magazine goes that far back. Give me a sense of what you are looking for and I'll look through my stuff. Not everything was digitized for storage back then and some of it is too large to post here with upload size limitation.
 
OptionsTrader0306.pdf is from March, 2006. Not really fascinating from a technology point of view (smartphones weren't ubiquitous yet but they are now and still haven't made no difference in what they can bring to the individual trader).

I'm curious about the technology and knowledge of the 80s too. Were you here before and after the big options market crash of 1987?

The thing I'm most curious about and if you can witness it even by word I'd be thrilled: is it really true that implied vol curve was "flat" back in 1984 for instance?

Second thing: does anyone know where I can get historical marketdata (end of day) for the period *before* that crash? I've payed some $1000 for recent US historical options data.

So I'm not shy on actually paying hard currency for the data.
 
The questions persist:

1) Do you remember a "flat vol" before even the concept of a flat vol surfaced out?
2) Where can I buy this antedeluvian data from?
 
Absolutely no skew prior to 10/87 with the exception of scheduled fed meetings.
Not my expertise on data, but the official vendor back in 87 was the exchange and academics could get access from a depository at the business library at the UC Berkeley. Don't know anywhere else for clean 80's data. Have you asked the folks at data sales at the CBOE ?
 
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