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Software I am using PowerOptions (poweropt.com)

I am looking for an answer to some simple questions regarding European options: 1. Is it possible to trade european options on american stocks? If not, what intstruments are usually traded? 2. What broker can I use to trade european options? Thank you.

Hello, again. I have two simple questions that I could not find answers for in literature about options. In fact it looks like most sources just copy each other. Anyway, talking about American style options: 1. Let's say I buy 100 shares of ABC stock for $9.84 and I want to sell a November...

Some brokers give an oportunity to buy a stock and write a covered call in one go "buy-write". Since I've not traded any real money yet I would like to know the opinion of experienced trader if it is quicker to do buy-write than buying stock first and then selling a covered call as two separate...

Thanks again, guys. So, Rainmaker, does it mean that sometimes when one wants to write a covered call there may not be any buyers? Is this situation common in option trading?

Thank you all for responding to my question. I wonder if there is any strategy that can be implemented to limit a risk when writing covered calls? Any ideas?

A lot has been said about options for stocks here. Can anybody provide a comprehensive answer to the question: Is it possible to write covered calls on: 1. currencies, 2. commodities, 3. indexes? Thank you for your help.

I am looking for VIX intraday data in TradeStation format. Does anybody know where I could buy it ? Or perhaps if you have it we could do some exchange, I have data for all major indexes, commodities and Forex. Thanks.