Recent content by hardtofin

Do you trade options yourself Martin?

Haha. So it's the same as other investment boards I've been on previously then :).

Hi guys, As the thread title suggests, to all you option traders out there; What would you expect is a reasonable rate of return annually from trading in options. Also, are there many option traders here or is it mainly spreadbetters? Best regards, hardtofin

I have that PDF guide, many thanks. I was just interested in seeing if anyone uses that particular API. Finally, that Freelance site looks amazing!! I may well give it a try. :)

Ok, let's start again :). It seems the platform I use (Interactive brokers) have some kind of API that I can plug in to. This will then connect into excel and allow me to extrapolate data. Does anyone have any experience with IB's API? Many thanks, hardtofin

Well I must be some sort of genius to make money without excel then.

Thanks for your help. I am obviously not worth my salt as an options trader because I don't know how to set up black-scholes in excel. To be honest, this is not exactly the warm welcome to these forums I was hoping for and I am unsure if I will be using them in future as your snidey comments...

First of all I have no idea how to do something like that in excel. Besides that, how do I get a live feed into excel? Many thanks.

Hi guys, I am new to these forums but am a long time option trader (10 years+). I'm after a downloadable black scholes model that updates in realtime i.e I can set it to a feed, say FTSE 100 index and it will model ESX options there for me. As part of that, I want to be able to then key in my...