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I'm interested and have IB and PM

I use chartaffair as you can set that to email you every day with the latest confirmed earnings dates froma list you supply it. Simply stick those in a spreadsheet (ticker and earnings date) and add a column that calulates the the earnings date - 7 days and sort on that. So each morning you add the lastest info from the email and order on the -7 column to see which tickers are now in play.

@olufemig Hi, I have the same configuration. I model my trades in ONE but then manually enter the orders into IB as you have more control that way. If you transmit from ONE it commits the trade to its database at what are likely to be incorrect prices which you will have to update once/if the trade fills. One thing I do find useful though is to create a flex query in IB to export the trades to a CSV file after they have filled. You can then import this into ONE safe in the knowledge that ONE now has a 100% accurate record of the trade and you can monitor it accordingly. You need to wait about an hour after the trade fills for the data to be available for the flex query but things don't tend to move so fast that that becomes an issue.

I ended up plumping for the anchor strategy after assessing the different approaches available for really minimising downside risk. Keeping it in house!

I was playing around with Kurt's style of trades recently. The idea is to buy a stock you are keen on and then also buy a deep ITM long term married put so that you don't have to pay too much for the extrinsic portion of the put. Your risk is then limited to the amount you pay for the extrinsic which is typically 7%-10% of the cost of the stock and the put. The trade off is obviously that the put acts as a drag on any increase in the stock price. However, his key trick is then to sell various short term options (covered calls, ratios, etc) in order to pay off the extrinsic part of married put and get to a risk-free status. Or, and this specifically appealed, use the dividends to pay off the extrinsic value over time. Sounds good from a risk point of view but I wasn't convinced on the reward side of the equation. Here is the published track record. https://www.radioactivetrading.com/ptrackm.asp?pid=12

I think we are restricted to IB in the UK which is not too bad. Unless anyone knows of any other alternatives?

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