Fatiflyer

The guys at tastytrade are expecting an increase in IV for a long while, they remind me to a known children's story Петя и волк, I respect their opinions quite much for their experience and do agree that it will happen when no one will expect it, that was my reason to stick to anchor trades. It has been a tough time for those option delta neutral traders defending their calls, personally I've learned a lot of this market situation, now when my setups are skewed to make them more comfortable to the rising markets is time to the market to change (this is my own foolish reason to be after a huge pullback ) Regards

Hi all, For my point of view the best option platform is TOS, what a pitty that I'm living in a country in which it isn't possible to open a TD TOS account, although, I use a paper account to follow my trades with options, most of them hybrid (indices hedged with etfs), I don't know other options software that allows beta weighting and this is the reason to use this. I have 2 brokerage accounts, one is IB , not much to say about them, one of the best brokers, but his TWS is quite clunky in order to trade with options spreads, I'm starting to get used to ONE software which now allows to send orders to IB via API, could be a great improvement because I love ONE software. the other is Tradestation, I opened the account to get familiar with the easy langauge and systems programming and the robust backtest utility, a little bit expensive but they are improving their optionstation platform quite a lot. Regards and Happy New Year!

Hi all, I had been using OptionVue6 for a while during a course on options in which the teacher was commercial representative of OV for my country too and I must say that the product seems to be quite useful although the pricing is absolutly nuts. Now I'm using ONE since september it works fine and is very easy to run, if you have account with thinkorswim or interactive brokers, the linkage to get real time data works fine, ONE provides data of the option chain of a lot of US stocks and index in lapses of 5 minutes of the last 3 years, if you need dive deeper you will have only end of day data of the options chains . Up to the moment the only drawbacks I see is, 1.- I'm used to adjust my options trades in indexes with their corresponding etf, for speed and ease of filling of the orders when it were necessary, and it is not possible to study hybrid positions (index and etf together) 2.- It is not possible send orders from ONE to my broker Although, they say they are working on both issues. For someone who want's to improve in their option trading strategies I find it indispensable from my point of view. For whatever question you might have you can contact http://optionnetexplorer.helpserve.com or send a email to "Support@OptionNETExplorer.com" <Support@OptionNETExplorer.com>; they answer quickly and kindly. Best regards Tony