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On Jan 20th Dan Harvey presented his modified version of the boxcar where he's using a laddered structure for the debit spread side and also sets it for credit. May I please ask few questions? 1. What are the benefits of using two debit spreads vs. a single wider one? Playing in TOS I can...

Now I realized DGH = Dan Harvey. I hope I'm right. Thank you for the feedback. I haven't explicitly stated it, but I thought it was understood from the beginning: I don’t use the calculator to validate my short term trades. I was trading them before even hearing about this calculator and I...

The free rate I guess is the interest rate and I set to 1% per Dan's video in which he explained the calculator. You can simply change it and see the impact. For volatility I tried either the volatility for the strike I am using or use the calculate button. If vol change is not much, the impact...

And here is proof that sometimes luck exists. I opened this calendar this morning and then placed the closing order for around 105 profit per contract. Got filled at the end of the day.

OK, just so I can go through this exercise I will assume you place the highest strike roughly 75 points above spot. This morning I stored option chain data when SPX was 3518. So I place this trade: Sell 20 Nov 3590 call at 22.95 Buy 23 Nov 3595 call at 24.05 Debit 1.1 Looks like this in the...

Status1, best would be a trade that would have started today. If it were to place a trade this morning what strike and expiration for each leg? Puts or calls?

If you give me the trade data I will look at it tonight and try my 2 cents.

For a while I followed Amy Meissner’s boxcar service when it started and noticed she was using calendars for the boxcar trade and they were kind of short term. And they worked. This made me look more into them and after tedious back tests it seemed to me the 4/7 DTE setup has merit. I still...

I hope Dan Harvey can comment on this. After seeing Dan’s video on how to use the Option Risk Calculator, I thought I would give it a try analyzing calendars. I keep having success with very short term calendars on SPX while everybody recommends longer term, so I wanted to see what the...

Knowing about it is one thing, knowing how to fix it is another. This is what happens with overgrown things that crash under their own weight.

Could anybody please advise if this bracketed order does what I think it does? I would like to buy the calendar spread for $8 debit. If it's filled and later on it goes my way, close (sell) for $9 credit => $100 profit If it goes against me, close (sell) for $7 credit => $100 loss I know...

And they panic in various ways. Some move to bonds, some move to gold ... Others ...

I opened both IB and TD in 2016 and didn't like any, but chose to continue with IB because commissions were lower (at the time, I don't know now). Anyway I will need to fund it and start to use it for easy trades initially. Hopefully it will start to make sense to me.

I'm using TOS to analyze complex positions, but it's true, I have never funded the acct. Now, after several good years, they let me know the acct will be closed in 30 days unless funded. Anybody else had a similar experience? All my trades are with IB and after the first frustrating months I...

Using weeklies and assuming 52 trades, a profit of 12.69% per trade will get him here.

Thank you!

Igi, I can't find the video from today (Monday, Dec 2). Was there any? Please help. Thank you.

Thank you. I keep learning new things. Indeed when using the Live setup all is up to date, including charts. Thinking more about it, it may be that charts were always one day old and I didn't notice as I only look at charts in TOS when doing some rudimentary backtesting with thinkback. When...

For me it's on the upper left corner. And when I click on Realtime data it shows this: So your indexes are also shown up to 11/27... Well, I doubt my chart indexes were always one day delayed and I didn't notice. But on the other hand I will soon be 65, so chances are I may have some issues...

Guys, thank you for trying to help. 1. I'm reluctant to uninstall and reinstall. I fear all sort of hiccups that may happen or not. 2. I only use TOS paper money. My real trades are with IB, but their monitoring capabilities are practically inexistent. 3. I don't use VPN when at home. 4...