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15-min delayed option chain data into Google Sheets? Free?
Have tried Python with help of AI, Scripts, etc and nothing works. I'd prefer a free delayed service to pull bid quotes that I can scrape into my Sheets file, only need bid for a specific symbol, expiration and strike.
Highlighting Sam Shames weekly Video.
I follow Sam Shames . (This is not an advertisement!) He’s an experienced trader and he’s very intelligent. He writes his own code on TOS. I’ve been using his alerts for day trading. Pretty darn accurate. I have finance background, so I understand his big picture. Suggest you check out …
Forget Oil
my theory on the Iranian thing. it is not about the Oil. It is about Huge Investments that have been waiting to build Massive Data Centers in the Middle East. every time a leader from europe or the middle east visited washington, the subject of Iran came up. who would …
$PLTR — The AIP numbers are real and the US commercial acceleration is being ignored
Everyone keeps treating Palantir like a government contractor with a flashy demo. That read is at least two years stale. Q4 bookings hit $4.3B. US commercial TCV came in at $1.3B. AIP — their AI platform — is not a prototype anymore. It is generating real enterprise deals at real …
Any pure option buyers here? (No selling, no hedging) , 0dte,1,2,3dte
Anyone here who strictly does **option buying only** — no selling, no hedging, just naked directional trades? I’m trying to understand how different people approach it, especially: * How do you place your stop-loss? (premium-based / chart-based / %?) * How fast do you enter and exit trades? (scalping vs …
$AVGO — The AI hype is masking serious structural risk in this name
Everyone owns Broadcom. It shows up in every AI basket, every semiconductor ETF, every "picks and shovels" pitch. The consensus is basically unanimous long. That unanimity is exactly what makes me nervous. The non-GAAP numbers look great. The problem is how you get there. Broadcom strips out stock-based comp that …
Iron condor spx 0dte
New to iron condor. What’s the best way to be consistently profitable for selling 0dte spx IC? Any advice would be appreciated.
I picked half a million pounds of pennies YTD
I picked half a million pounds of pennies YTD by using the **Papakong88 Strategy #2:** This strategy was originally formulated in August 2023 to sell 25HTE (25 hours to expiration) NDX ICs. It was modified in March 2025 to sell 0DTE NDX ICs in the first hour of the trading …
OI is so underrated. 25 yrs of trading and still my go to before selling a CC
been selling covered calls for 25 years. not 25 months. and before i sell anything i look at two things, volume and open interest. always have. never really questioned it hear me out... high OI at a strike tells you where real money is positioned. not retail guessing, but institutions …
Covered call options on argon, AGX. Straddle?
Made some money on covered calls as it jumped 130 points this morning. How would you work a straddle on the stock, given the peaks and valleys that this stock does religiously?