[RT] Website for historical options chains and prices

[MikeSuesserott@xxxxxxxxxxx]

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class=581164221-16032003>Oops, make that "except as a 
customer."
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BTW, 
last year I wrote a review of OptionVue for another list. Thought some might 
find it topical, so I include it here. Again, all disclaimers apply, but I guess 
you can see I am a satisfied customer. Here goes.
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OptionVue is very complete. You want charts of implied and hist. volatilities 
of AEM over the past five years? Just press a button. Need the dollar-weighted 
put volumes charted over the last three weeks? Press another button. Want to 
know the June Gold price 1.5 standard deviations above that last high, two 
months into the future? Press another button again. Looking for stocks which are 
in a downtrend, have just retraced for three days, have resumed the downward 
movement today, and show unusually high implied call volatilities? You can get 
them by using a built-in scanning language, get them listed by volume, or by 
implieds, or by any complicated formula you might have devised for your search. 
I could go on and on.
OptionVue is also very comfortable. You don't have to remember what IBMCS 
means; the software will use notation that you can immediately relate to (IBM 
Mar 95 Calls). You don't have to bother about new strikes coming into view due 
to the movement of the markets; OptionVue will insert them automatically. For 
any position, even for the most complicated spreads, you will immediately see 
the correct margins, and can see how they will change as the position matures in 
different scenarios. Not to speak of the Greeks and probabilities and profit 
graphs etc. which are a matter of course. And you have excellent portfolio 
management included.
There are so many things OptionVue can do - I don't have the time to name 
them all.
As for the software giving you an edge in the market - no, I don't think that 
any software, per se, could do this. I am sure you are well aware of that 
yourself. Software can aid with analysis, and IMHO OptionVue does a superb job 
here, but I think you will agree that the trader has to know how to interpret 
that information first in order to benefit from it. Just purchasing software is 
not enough - one has to know how to use it.
Best regards,
Michael Suesserott
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  MikeSuesserott@xxxxxxxxxxx 
  [mailto:MikeSuesserott@xxxxxxxxxxx]Gesendet: Sunday, March 16, 2003 
  21:34An: realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxBetreff: [RT] 
  Website for historical options chains and prices
  <SPAN 
  class=595471920-16032003>Hi Ray, Dave,
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  class=595471920-16032003>I've been using OptionVue for more than a 
  decade, and also got their "BackTrader" when it came out about two years 
  ago. This add-on module lets you go back in time and use historical option 
  data from the company's database, stored at half-hour intervals. Thoroughly 
  recommended.
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  href="">http://www.optionvue.com/Modules.htm#BackTrader
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  <SPAN 
  class=595471920-16032003>Disclaimer: no connections except as a 
  costumer.
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  <FONT 
  color=#000080>Michael <FONT 
  color=#000080>Suesserott






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