Month: September 2017

Productivity Evernote – best note taking application out there; one of my most used tools OneNote – similar to Evernote (but not as good) Office365 – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneDrive – $7 to $10 / month CrashPlan -$12.50/month to backup 10 home computers with unlimited cloud storage for backups Flux – controls white balance on your

Over time I will be building up some blog posts as well as a course for people just starting out with option trading. So for now, here are some 3rd party free resources you can use in order to learn the basics. Project Option Main site TradersFly Main site YouTube videos OptionAlpha Main site Training

Platform programming ThinkScript (for the ThinkOrSwim platform from TD Ameritrade): ThinkScripter TOS tutorials at Hanh Tech Fun with ThinkScript forum Yahoo ThinkScript group ThinkScript chat group inside ThinkOrSwim SmallDogInvestor Thinkscripts FreeThinkScript at Blogspot HalfWayBackTrading Share-TOS Charting with Chris Big list of custom TOS indicators from Easycators ThinkScript TD API Main info page New TD API

Automated options backtesting GetVolatility CMLViz TradeMachine AlgoNetExplorer OptionStack Manual options backtesting tools OptionNetExplorer OptionVue Stock backtesting Profitspi PastStat ThinkOrSwim strategies NinjaTrader Spreadsheets Google Sheets Tutorials for Google Sheets Video tutorials for Google Sheets

ThinkOrSwim Release notes Reference for ThinkScript Interactive Brokers Checking server availability OptionNet Explorer (paid) Web site Release notes Downloads Discount link (10 GBP trial for 30 days) OptionVue (paid) Web site Release notes Free 30 day trial Trading Journals TradeBench Cloud based virtual machines Paperspace Amazon Workspaces Windows Server at Amazon LightSail  

Seasonality Stockcharts seasonality charts Moore Research Center (paid) SeasonAlgo (paid) SeasonAX (paid) SpreadCharts (free/paid) CommoditySeasonality

Market research and tools FedWatch tool – expectations of rate hikes by the Fed Current Fed Funds rate Historical chart of the Fed Funds rate MarketGauge Little Big View Commitments of Traders – see the bias of the “smart money” (large commercials) compared to the “dumb money” (retail traders) VixCentral – track the IV levels of the

Earnings Zacks earnings calendar and information Yahoo Finance EarningsWhispers (paid) Optionslam (paid) Book: Exploiting Earnings Volatility by Brian Johnson (paid)

Stock screeners Zacks screener FinViz screener ProfitsPi StockFetcher Heat maps FinViz StockTwits MyFxBook Barchart Forex heatmaps Longer term currency heatmaps Daytrading currency heatmaps Exchange Traded Funds ETF composition and correlation

Tools VixCentral SpreadCharts Blogroll VIX and More SixFigureInvesting OptionPit OnlyVIX Surly Trader Whitepapers Tony Cooper – Easy volatility investing Podcasts Volatility Views from OptionsInsider