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Work Progress on The Options Simulator

It’s been a busy week and there is also much more work with the simulator as I have expected. I decided to add more features on the way. Apart from that all that small details that you normally don’t think about consume pretty much time and energy, too.

Here’s a small screenshot, everything you see is pretty much self-explanatory. There are a few other dialogs that are switched off right now, I don’t want to show them… yet :)

Screenshot of the OptionsSimulator

There are already a bunch of features. It’s a fun thing to play with, although I didn’t add the main graphical simulation module yet. I can already let this thing calculate chances and possible profits though :)

You’ll be able to save your simulations, too. Of course.

Alright, back to work! Stay tuned! :)

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3 Responses to “Work Progress on The Options Simulator”

  • 1
    DataSurfer
    June 5th, 2008 09:29

    I made a Greasemonkey script to mash finance.yahoo with your online options calculator.

    Since the web calculator is offline the script no longer works. Here is what I did, in case you are interested in making the integration work again, or in some other way.

    Requires:
    Firefox
    Greasemonkey add on for Firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748

    Script:
    http://datasurfer.googlepages.com/straddlecalcyahoo.user.js

    Example Page:
    http://finance.yahoo.com/q/os?s=LEH

    Instructions:
    Choose the radio buttons matching the strike prices you want to model.
    Change the other fields as desired.
    Click the Calculate! button

    I made one for Morningstar Options as well, but it didn’t work all the time

  • 2
    admin
    June 5th, 2008 12:14

    Thanks for the script and info, DataSurfer! I don’t plan to reactivate the online version of the options calculator, but I may integrate a similar functionality in the Options Simulator at some point!

  • 3
    Karan
    June 8th, 2008 05:32

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