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Recommended Websites for More Option Information

Quote Platforms:

eSignal:  (http://www.esignal.com

eSignal packages are priced for the budgets and trading styles of every investor.  It's fast, reliable, world market information and decision support tools delivered to active traders and professionals - directly to your PC or laptop.  eSignal is the flagship product from the company by the same name.

DTN.IQ: (http://www.dtniq.com)

DTN.IQ is a real-time, streaming quote and news service with data direct from the exchanges. It owns its own ticker plant and data centers.  DTN.IQ gives you the ability to watch the market move in real time, just like professional stockbrokers.  In addition to viewing real-time market data, you'll see real-time calculations for option analytics, including the Greeks, implied volatility and fair value.

Excel Option Calculator: (http://www.kaininito.com/options/)

An easy-to-use Option Calculator for analyzing options trades with up to 20 trade legs. Tools include: Flexible risk and greeks graphs, probability calculator, statistical volatility calculator, what-if analysis tool. Uses free Internet sources for retrieving options and underlying data.

IQ Feed: (http://www.iqfeed.net)

DTN is a proven industry leader in the delivery of data feeds, high-end analytical software, streaming quote services and customized web content. They bring together time-sensitive quotes on equities, options, futures, commodities and fixed income securities, real-time news wires, historical data and more. 

QuoteTracker: (http://www.medved.net/quotetracker/)

QuoteTracker is a Windows program that integrates with various data feeds, brokers and financial sites to provide you with streaming real-time quotes, Live intraday charts with Technical Indicators, Level II quotes, Time and Sales, alerts, news monitoring, and everything else you may need to effectively trade in today's market.

Open Interest Options Browser: (http://www.rpsw.com)

Open Interest allows you to download free options quotes from the Internet, and display this raw data, along with derived data (implied volatilities, the "Greeks", etc.) and to create graphics showing the behavior of different options combinations.

Option-Chart.com: (http://www.option-chart.com)

Has both an option chart program that's an interactive visualization-charting tool that helps option investors to calculate profit or loss versus various possible stock prices at expiration.  As well as an option calculator that is a useful tool that calculates implied volatilities, fair values and Greeks of American-style options for option investors, using 20-minute delayed market data.

OptionVue Research: (http://www.optionvueresearch.com)

OptionVue Research is the options market research affiliate of OptionVue Systems International, the leading developer of options analysis software and data solutions for the past 20 years. Through their services you can gain access to consulting, brokerage and money management services that help you better manage company and portfolio risk.

Hoadley.net: (http://www.hoadley.net)
 
Hoadley.net is a pretty intense and sophisticated options website for users of Excel.

Options Star: (http://www.optionstar.com)

Options software for new or professional options traders. 

PowerOptions: (http://www.poweropt.com)

Along with a complete suite of educational materials and premium toll-free customer support, PowerOptions provides the essential data needed to invest with equity options, along with their patented SmartSearchXL technology.

StockFetcher: (http://www.stockfetcher.com)

Offers pre-built filters for all of your technical analysis charting needs, including dozens of fully customizable indicators like Stochastics, Bollinger Bands, MACD and Candlesticks.

Trade Ideas: (http://www.trade-ideas.com)

Contains an array of statistical analysis and pattern recognition servers that connect directly to the exchanges and monitor every tick for every trade on the Nasdaq, AMEX, NYSE, and the CME.  Their servers keep statistical baselines on what is usual and unusual for any given stock, index, and ETF.  Users then can pick and choose different events to watch and filters to refine the universe of stocks being monitored.

Market Screen: (http://www.marketscreen.com)

The MarketScreen analytic engine scans the market daily, creating dynamic lists of stocks, indexed and sorted according to specific technical and fundamental criteria.  Subscriptions available.

More Options Information:

The Options Industry Council (OIC) was created to educate investors and their financial advisors about the benefits and risks of exchange-traded equity options. More information: http://www.888options.com

The Chicago Board of Option Exchange (CBOE) is THE place for everything options.
More information: http://www.cboe.com

Yahoo! Finance: (http://finance.yahoo.com)

Sign up for free e-mail and personalize your portfolio.  Keep up-to-date on all of the latest news and research about your stocks and options, and get quotes for any exchanges. 

Stocks Futures & Options: (http://www.sfomag.com)

Dubbing itself as the "Official Journal for Personal Investing In Stocks Futures and Options," this site offers feature articles, stories and book reviews about anything and everything investing.

Nasdaq Holdings Page: (http://quotes.nasdaq.com/asp/MasterDataEntry.asp?page=holdingssummary)

The Holdings Summary page provides a single page to review all of the aggregated Institutional and Insider stock holdings.

Investopedia: (http://www.investopedia.com)

Anything and everything you ever wanted to know about investing, this is the site for you.  Contains tutorials, articles and one of the most in-depth dictionaries on the web for all things investing. 

Volatility & Stock Charts:

Ivolatility.com: (http://www.ivolatility.com)

An award-winning, revolutionary data service that provides all the information required by equity options traders for pre-trade analysis, post-trade decision support and risk management. IVolatility.com's database represents the most complete and accurate source of historical implied volatility (IV) and correlation data ever developed and can be accessed with a simple web browser or a direct data feed.

Big Charts: (http://www.bigcharts.com)

BigCharts is the world's most comprehensive and easy-to-use investment research website, providing access to professional-level research tools such as interactive charts, quotes, industry analysis and intraday stock screeners, as well as market news and commentary.  Best of all, BigCharts is a free service supported entirely by site sponsors.

Stock Charts: (http://www.stockcharts.com

Their website gives you access to tools for technical analysis, common sense advice and examples of how to use them effectively.  You can sample a plethora of their charting samples for free, or sign up for a membership.


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