Friday, May 14, 2010

Re: [TheOptionClub.com] Some Remarks on the TOS Platform

 

U:nder Setup, I see that I have an IRA and Margin account in Paper
Money. But going to one of those didn't allow me to change the Days
Back.

On Fri, 14 May 2010 18:32:52 -0400, "Paul Seifert"
<paulseifert@comcast.net> wrote:

>Ricky Try selecting an account in Paper Money. If you have All in the account box the software will not let you go into the account section and do days back.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ricky Jimenez
> To: OptionClub@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 6:14 PM
> Subject: Re: [TheOptionClub.com] Some Remarks on the TOS Platform
>
>
>
> Bob, on my Paper Money account, Days Back is disabled. I will ask
> support about this on Monday.
>
> On Fri, 14 May 2010 17:31:12 -0400, "Bob Hug" <rchug@bellsouth.net>
> wrote:
>
> >Ricky:
> >There is a "work around". Go to "Monitor" - "Account Statement"; put in enough "days back" to include your first trade; put "GS" in the symbol box; open "Trade History"; right click on each trade and select "Analyze Duplicate Trade". When you are finished doing this for all trades, go to the "Analyze" tab - "Risk Profile" - put "GS" in the symbol area; change "Show All" to "Hide Positions" and you will see the current P&L of the trade, including all adjustments.
> >Bob
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Ricky Jimenez
> > To: OptionClub
> > Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 4:49 PM
> > Subject: [TheOptionClub.com] Some Remarks on the TOS Platform
> >
> >
> >
> > I know that there are many devotees of this software here. I have
> > been trying to learn it recently and have found some real concerns.
> >
> > 1. It doesn't supply the total of the credits and debits of the trades
> > made on a particular underlying, the kind of thing we look at every
> > day in the GS thread. On their Monitor-Activity and Positions tab,
> > you can find out the total P/L of the open positions in an underlying
> > stock. On the Monitor-Account Statement tab, you can find out the
> > total Mark which I think is the midpoint of the current bid and ask
> > for all open positions in the underlying. I suppose you can
> > approximate the total debit/credit for the open positions by adding
> > the Mark to the open P/L but they should supply it more conveniently.
> > It was explained to me that TOS thinks real traders are mostly
> > interested in how much they are up or down for the day, not for any
> > other time period. (Yes, that is really what a support person told
> > me!)
> >
> > 2. I failed in my attempt, using this software, to construct the
> > current P/L expiration graph of the GS trade. Since some people have
> > posted such graphs, it apparently can be done but I only saw how to
> > construct a P/L graph for a position based on current option prices.
> > Do you have to go into thinkBack and step through the days up to now?
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>

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