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September 29, 2004

Option Screener @ GalaTime

For easy, real-time access to my watchlist, I have created an option screener at http://www.galatime.com/optionscreen, also accessible via the link on the sidebar. The screener looks for all option trades that meet the criteria listed on this page; for details on why I chose these criteria, look at my trading plan.

A few things to note:

  • This page is generated on the fly by a Perl script that uses stock and option quotes from Yahoo Finance to find trading candidates - hence, please expect to wait 1-2 minutes for the page to load.

  • I've used the option "bid" price, and not the "last trade" price, to calculate returns - the last trade price can get sync out of the bid/ask prices, as I have pointed out earlier.

  • The "% return" is calculated as Option Price / Strike Price, since I have restricted the screener to out-of-the-money put options.
  • Posted by galatime at September 29, 2004 01:29 PM

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