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thinkorswim platform shows IV and you can stream it to excel also check Stock Options Analysis and Trading Tools on I Volatility.com they have intraday IV monitor

beans, wheat, corn, meal, bean oil, hogs, feeder and live cattle. in beans, november is new product month in wheat, july is new product month in corn december is new product month (however september corn is cross between new and old product) old/new product AG calendars is very volatile you...

IB doesnt support exchange traded spreads. deep discount trading supports exchange traded spreads. you should use CQG trader or CTS T4 platform for minimal fees.

you should find some option pricing spreadsheet and plug in values. run them as an example, it drops to about 1440 with same IV

with "pro" edition you have automated strategies, OCO and bracket orders. i.e you can send stop loss and profit taking orders when entering the position(order send order). if one of the "exit"orders are executed, other one is cancelled (order cancels order)

665-6 means 665.75 cents/ bushel . number after - is divided by 8 futures are priced like 665-0, 665-2, 665-4, 665-6, 666-0 each increment is 12.5 usd on a standard lot of 5000 bushels options are priced as 10-1, 10-2, the latter part also has denominator of 8

binary options are only worthy following news releases in very short timeframes. You need a realtime news service for this. Best part of binaries are it closes itself, you cannot ruin it. However they offer very bad risk-rewards ratio. Even the most generous binaries (up/down) pay about 80%

choice of broker will depend on platform though. While using transact, it missed a stop in gold futures and cost me 140 usd. btw transact and infinity were same platform a few yrs ago. Velocity has greatest range of platforms. mirus gives free ninja trader. Also check CTS T4 platform. May worth...

ninja trader doesnt allow trading spreads such as (sell march oil/ buy april oil) in one atomic transaction. It also had problems in instrument manager. continuously defining new contracts as time goes by (when old contract expires) becomes a pain. Most professionals prefer this spread type...

IGmarkets offer such binaries and allows trading however binaries only offer value during news releases imho iff u have a realtime news provider

commissions start from 0.8 gbp and go to 1.8 gbp/rt. 0.8 commission requires at least 500 gbp/month platforms, high volume (marex requires min 2k volume), min deposit of 20k (these are arcades) 1.8 gbp ones are retail platforms (no volume req, 3-4 k acct opening) make sure your platform allows...

in IG index, city index or whatever any other bucket shop, the options offered are against them thus they can create daily, weekly options. FX Options traded in exchanges are only available in monthly till recently. However exchange options has minimum tick value of 12.5 euro (for euro/dollar)...

goto quotes.esignal.com there is a box with saying "enter symbol" on rhs type your spread in the following format ='ED H2'- 2 * 'ED H3' + 'ED H4' (this spread is a 1 year ED fly starting from march 2012, suit to your spread) ED is eurodollar contract futures symbol,click go

futures spread trading by courtney smith is a good book.