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Options activity for companies with upcoming earnings Options activity for companies with upcoming earnings: http://www.crimsonmind.com/options/EarningsAndOptions.aspx

Intraday and Historical Options Data Here A good site for historical and also for intraday options data, option stats and lists: http://www.crimsonmind.com/options/indexCurrentMarket.aspx

If you close the option position w/o exercising then things should be simple. Then the margin will be released IMO immediately, and you can buy the underlying...

You can start your own journal here --> see the Journals section. And you can set a link here to your journal...

The options are tradable until the expiration date. Of course they could be nearly worthless if the underlying moves so far against your options, but still tradable. But at the same time options of the other side gain that much in value of course... Yes, if the market then moves back to its...

Unusual high option volumes (ie. these stocks should go up the coming weeks...): CMCSA Calls GGB Calls GPS Calls

The IB Demo is very realistic. You even think it is real. If you don't believe then try it out yourself. The software you can download from IB's website.

To the info of others: I have this guy called Martinghoul in my ignore list for a while now, and he knows that, so I'm not going to answer his idiotic replies. It's not worth to discuss anything with someone like him. Suffice to say this: he refers to my journal...

In the following thread I've posted some advantages of options trading: http://www.trade2win.com/boards/options/83080-what-point-options-2.html#post1016658

Re: Why options trading is better than trading the underlying stock The risk in the above scenario is even lower with options than with the stock: If the stock falls 5% then you lose 5k when trading the stock, but you lose only 62% of the 5k with options, ie. only 3.1k . (cf. the said table).

Here is a screenshot of the OptionTrader module in IB's TWS platform. It should answer the recent questions asked here regarding Bid/Ask etc... And commission is accounted for in the IB Demo. Normally it costs $0.70 per contract (depends on how many one trades in total per month). It is...

Why options trading is better than trading the underlying stock Why options trading is better than trading the underlying stock Suppose you want invest 100k into a stock that you have throughly analyzed and of which you expect that it should rise about 5% in the next 1 or 2 weeks. You are so...

I use vanilla options, and usually into one direction only, ie. my hedging looks very much differrent from what others do: I simply accumulate more at certain drawdown points :-), and not neccessarily just the same one strike :-)... And sometimes I short a Put instead of buying a Call; it...

Many, if not most, option traders trade the option itself, without ever being interested in exercising the option, since that would mean buying the underlying, ie. investing more capital. Ie. they are mainly interested in trading just the option premium itself... :-) In this case a table like in...

Here the trades of yesterday (Monday). Options of SPY and DRI. This posting is an addendum to this posting: http://www.trade2win.com/boards/trading-journals/82390-journal-trader-um-aka-traderum-using-demo-acct-5.html#post1015160