Re: [amibroker] Historical Options data?

["john gibb" <jgibb1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jonathan,
 
Excuse this belated reply.
 
I would:
 
    a) consider the Platinum service 
at Optionetics.com(<A 
href="">http://optionetics.com/platinum/). 
You can backtest there by setting the date on the Platinum page to a previous 
date (as far back as 01/03/2000) and get options data, on a particular 
underlying or list of same, trading at that date. (You might try their free 
trial. I am a subscriber, so let me know if you have any questions during the 
trial) Unfortuately, I don't believe they sell the data independent of 
Platinum and you have to Copy/Paste to get it.
 
and/or
 
    b) contact Price Headley (<A 
href="">price@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) or one of his 
people Bigtrends.com.  I believe they are in the process of putting 
together an options database that may or may not have what you 
need.
 
I would be interested in hearing your results, 
especially if you figure out a way to integrate this with 
Amibroker.
 
-john
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  Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2004 5:10 
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  Subject: [amibroker] Historical Options 
  data?
  Hi all,I use DTNiq as my data feed, 
  and they do provide historical options data.  I’m trying to figure out 
  how to display it though.  For example, let’s say that I’m looking at 
  XYZ, and I have a historic signal from some time in February of 2001. 
   Let’s pretend that at that time, XYZ was trading at $15, and I want to 
  know what the $17.50 strike April Call option was priced at at that time. 
   How do I even figure out what the option symbol was, to atempt to 
  display it?  Especially given that options symbols are re-used once they 
  expire, not to mention that many option codes are simply randomly made up when 
  the “proper” code isn’t available, due to it being used in still-alive 
  LEAPS...??Any options traders out there have any idea about this 
  one?Thanks,Jonathan Send BUG REPORTS to 
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