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Slowly getting at least some practical idea about the SO way of trading things (thanks to members and mentors keeping repeating themselves), I thought having some kind of better overview can actually be of great help in selecting candidates. Particularly, I wanted to be able to compare candidates' current RV with one another and with historical averages and the RV going into earnings. And have some hard and handy numbers for the average daily loss you have to expect when entering a straddle in historical terms. So after removing all the clutter from the Upcoming Earnings page, I added fresh columns (will also change the table plugin at some point, this one is crap when it's getting just a little more serious): The price is there to give an idea about contract numbers and hence commissions (thanks for the idea). : RV is the latest RV of the shortest to expiry straddle RV rel is the distance to the average RV of previous cycles at this stage before earnings (to see if straddle is cheap compared to hsitory) RV earn is the average RV on the last day before earnigns (implied move) RV earnmin is the lowest RV going into earnings which ever occured in the (imported) history Decay is the daily average loss (as percentage of value) a straddle endures in the weeks before earnings