Thanks.
I use Yahoo finance which has an easy to reach link to options chains as well as historic quotes in which they include the last dividend paid (I think they use the ex- dividend date).
But I guess that magic screen that says "hey, these might be good opotion plays today" doesn't exist, except in paid services whose choices are often dubious.
Lou
--- In ConservativeOptionStrategies@yahoogroups.com, Randy Harmelink <rharmelink@...> wrote:
>
> There are a few screeners that have "Optionable" as a criteria. However,
> I've found that to me fairly useless -- it doesn't tell me how tradeable the
> options are.
>
> I have in the past used Zack's to find out which optionable stocks have
> earnings announcements before the next option expiration date.
> Unfortunately, their screener doesn't contain an ex-dividend date, although
> they could be retrieved one at a time using my add-in. But you would want to
> get down to a manageable list of ticker symbols first.
>
> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Louis <loupi3@...> wrote:
>
> > A more important question to me though is how these opportunities are
> > found. Scouring stock and option tables on a regular basis is time consuming
> > and tedious work. This is probably a silly question, but I was wondering if
> > there were any tools to locate opportunities like these that arise out of a
> > particular and unique combination of factors.
> > Lou
> >
>
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