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Hi @craigsmith, yes, I do see this problem. Will have a look into it...

@drcruz You may already have gotten the answer you needed, but the first thought I had when I saw your question was this: When I joined SO around 18 months ago, a member named Dustin posted the RV charts each week on the forums. His charts displayed RV of combined put + call double calendar and you had to divide that in half to know the price for either calendar on its own. For example, if his chart showed RV of 1.5%, we would divide it in half and assume the put calendar was 0.75% and the call calendar was 0.75%. (All this info was in the threads I read when I first joined, but I haven't checked to see if those threads are still out there) Nowadays, Dustin doesn't post his charts anymore and most people are going to either volatilityhq.com or art-of.trading to get their RV data. Each of those sites shows data for put calendars and data for call calendars separately, so you don't have to worry about dividing the RV number in half anymore.

Tax forms aren't ready in Canada yet either. It is a bit early. When they are ready they are downloaded from the site. Taxes aren't due up here till April 30.

What has worked for me so far...and I stress this is not a recommendation to anyone else. I ALWAYS use stops, personally mine are set at -50%. I USUALLY use GTC orders, last earnings season they were set at +30%, and this season I have moved them to +50% based on money that I have left on the table. I never open a CML trade during the first 30-45 minutes of the day. I usually change the back test to use longer options. I have found the monthly options to be better based on volume. I have 2 option trading accounts, SO gets the 10% per trade and no more than 60% total allocation as Kim suggests. In other account I allocate 3% to 5% portfolio value per trade from CML and stay between 50%-60% portfolio value invested. I am new to SO so I can only look at the historical performance which is great and speaks for itself or else I wouldn't be a member. All that being said, my CML performance has been very successful. Last earnings season when I started using it, I ended up +40% for Q4. So far for Q1 2018 I am up 25%. Overall in the money trade accuracy has been 73%. It does take a lot more active account management, and there is a much larger directional risk since all of the CML trades I focus on are long calls. I apologize if you know or have tried similar techniques.