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For interested. There will be short zoom session tomorrow at 10 AM Eastern US. Subject will be tracking p&l of open trades in TOS. There is no new methodology to be revealed but can be beneficial to do some summary of popular methods used by traders. And show what I do. In general, I track...

KK. I will try to be on next TG1 meeting. Code is not finalized for new version and wont be for presentation but is functional as is and there should be no issues from this part. Don't know what the agenda for next TG1 is though. I think I need about 5 to 10 mins to briefly show how I'm...

Tracking time spreads is very doable for everybody familiar with Excel or any coding lang. Actually it is pretty simple. Problem is with proper tracking of orders and applying them to particular trades. This task has to be done manually thus is tedious and prone to errors task. It is easy to...

I couldn't find a tread where backtesting was discussed, so I post this in new one. Although I do not trade nat gas., I do remember Options Sellers failure - I even may have that 'rogue wave' video somewhere on HDD. For those who don't remembe: Opt Sellers went down with a spike in nat gas...

Agree re visualization. It is much easier for me to analyze nicely graphed data than going through columns of numbers. This not universal and some do prefer numbers. Actually I use both - graphs for overview and numbers for details. Re VIX question. I think it depends what you use it for. VIX in...

Even during trading hours TOS sometimes goes berserk. This is why you can not blindly relay on TOS or any other software, even on your own. Advantage of having own software is that it is easier to know and understand potential flows while with third party it is a 'propriety' and you have to...

Hi Jim, I agree with you 100%. Myself, I tried to convey similar thoughts on this Forum (to learn coding skills for better trading) and I didn't change my mind. I do this, data harnessing, for some time and it's hard for me to imagine trading without that (personal feeling, not objective truth)...

Not necessary. There are time inputs are fairly easy to estimate (where 'easy' is fairly relative term) and times they are not. The simplest (?) example of that is price. It is not a trivial to find true price of an option and if you do, the next second that price can be different thus your...

yep. plenty to watch if one likes this kind of stuff.

:D No, I'm not. I'd say quite opposite. I see ONE as a drag in my trading (not talking price) , but also see how traders may like it. I did used ONE for couple years though.

I'm sure TOS' issue is a temporary one. I wish I can help with Excel but I have very little experience with it. I'm pretty convinced though that plotting expiration graph itself shouldn't be that hard. Well, it may depend on what you want to do but for simple graphs it cant be complicated. I...

Yep, I see it too. TOS's graphic library always (as I remember) produced rough graphs when pic was in zoom-out mode to the point it was hard to find strikes values from graphs alone.If I wanted to see exact graph I had to zoom-in like in your pic. But then graph was ok. The one you posted is...

Andrew, not necessary. Here is an example of 30dte, 10pw regular BF. It was put with "green skew" - atm IV ~9 when IV rises to ~14 atm this rBF is underwater at any strike. On top section you see Vol skews on the bottom one - t-0 lines and part of trade expirations graph.

Mike I didn't watch TG1 you mentioned so can't comment on that. In general what you said is correct. In general putting bearish trades after long up-run makes sense. It enen can be BF if one insists. Devil is in details. You can put bearish fly and you can do it in a good, bad or ugly way...

Luckily this didn't happen in market moving 200+ points. Take a note and account for such events in the future.

Thanks for explanation. As said I can't test it (no Excel) but have an idea what it does and how to use it (especially that I run similar ones ;) ). Good job!

When you have time also take a look at serverless services. It has downsides but may take all servicing out off your head. Unfortunately day is only 24h long... :)

Gariki, that is quite interesting. I love building tools that make trading easier. They are fistmost huge time savers. For example they can show you the state of the markets in a single glance or lay out various trade options for you eliminating manual chains scanning. I can't test your tool...

Definitely not my intention to put more work on you. Moving directly installed website manually is very tedious task that takes time an effort. I doubt it is possible to make server 100% proof anyway. I know Docker is an additional learning step but it will make installing and moving from server...

I'm not to fluent in this, just know some basics (or I hope so :) ). Didn't know about Hostek. Checked it out. Isn't it a Windows only? Why wont you switch to Unix/Linux server? I'm not to give any advice - rather to take one. I know it's not the place but starting to deal with this stuff...