Yahoo Finance's new website is now unusable...
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You know not what you speak. I do covered calls...That itself tells you no steamroller. They are usually on established, boring, industry leading stocks (think Amazon, ADM, Apple). Last time I saw, 7% of the option market was made up of covered calls.
I'm cheap, but not a miser. Have the cleaning women come once every four weeks. No cable TV...Just landline (which we will give up soon) and internet. I mow my own lawn. Collect rent at the rental...I'm the boring neighbor next door. Have a newer car in the garage, but also the 18 year old Chevy Colorado in the driveway...
Don't look at Yahoo Finance for options data. The data at your brokers is better than this, and Yahoo only shows strikes where there is volume that day. If no volume has traded in a strike it will not show up and data that is there is probably delayed. Using Yahoo for options data is not about being cheap it is being foolish.
Right, this is really annoying as well, b/c one needs the Bid/Ask of all strikes, regardless whether it has any volume or not, b/c if it has Bid/Ask > 0.0 then it means you can trade that strike and get an immediate fill (if the own offer matches the Bid/Ask).
A missing strike is IMO a nightmare for scanners, lists etc.
The data guy at Yahoo seems to have no clue of the product he is selling, and I mean especially _also_ their data via their commercial API (yfapi). Their free web data and their commercial API data do use the same data source, of course, but also share the same bugs in both.
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I know the Yahoo data is buggy, and is about 15 minutes delayed, but still usable for creating some (daily/weekly) ranked lists.
I'm getting the data via their commercial API, paying $9.99 or $25.99 per month, depending on actual requirements. I'm primarily downloading options chains data (ie. the strike tables); it's much data: more than 5000 tickers with each having many expiration dates (strike tables)... My download rate is about 160 requests per minute. Max 300 requests/minute is allowed. I'm doing this on a VPS with Gigabit link. For trading I'm using the realtime data of my broker.
I'm getting the data via their commercial API, paying $9.99 or $25.99 per month, depending on actual requirements. I'm primarily downloading options chains data (ie. the strike tables); it's much data: more than 5000 tickers with each having many expiration dates (strike tables)... My download rate is about 160 requests per minute. Max 300 requests/minute is allowed. I'm doing this on a VPS with Gigabit link. For trading I'm using the realtime data of my broker.
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I go for general information with Yahoo Finance. Like I said, I haven't trusted them for 20 years.
Also I know that if it's a lightly traded option (example ETF), the last strike price could be days, even weeks old.
I just like to eyeball for things like volume, last earnings, company website...Things like that. Does the stock even offer options...Quick review.
When I do trade, I take a much closer look before the trade at Schwab and Fidelity.
With Yahoo, the page just shows up (click and I'm there)...No need to login and dance around a broker's site.
PS Also brokers time out...Yahoo doesn't. I'm in and out though out the day...
Also I know that if it's a lightly traded option (example ETF), the last strike price could be days, even weeks old.
I just like to eyeball for things like volume, last earnings, company website...Things like that. Does the stock even offer options...Quick review.
When I do trade, I take a much closer look before the trade at Schwab and Fidelity.
With Yahoo, the page just shows up (click and I'm there)...No need to login and dance around a broker's site.
PS Also brokers time out...Yahoo doesn't. I'm in and out though out the day...
are you using python which library are you using?
You bitch about a lousy freebie data provider - that you've used for 20 years.
Enuf said.