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To everyone,
Thank you for the information and quick response. I have also looked for a
web site with historical options chains and prices, with no success.
If in the future you happen to come across one, you might post it to the forum
for everyone else.
Thanks again -- Dave
zdave@xxxxxxxxx
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ray Raffurty [mailto:r.raffurty@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2003 4:03 AM
To: realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [RT] Website for historical options chains and prices
Hi Michael,
I have resisted purchasing OptionVue for years since I can find what I need
for trading for much less or free else ware. How do you use their historic
data in your trading?
Good luck and good trading,
Ray Raffurty
----- Original Message -----
From: MikeSuesserott@xxxxxxxxxxx
To: realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2003 4:52 PM
Subject: [RT] Website for historical options chains and prices
Oops, make that "except as a customer."
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.
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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Von: MikeSuesserott@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:MikeSuesserott@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Gesendet: Sunday, March 16, 2003 21:34
An: realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Betreff: [RT] Website for historical options chains and prices
Hi Ray, Dave,
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.
http://www.optionvue.com/Modules.htm#BackTrader
Disclaimer: no connections except as a costumer.
Michael Suesserott
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