ibkr-options-volatility-trading

Unverified Other strategy on Options by mcf-long-short. BotFinder score 18 out of 100.

Volatility trading using Long and Short Straddle options strategies on Interactive Broker using Yahoo Finance and TWS API

Source: github

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ibkr-options-volatility-trading

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ibkr-options-volatility-trading

Interactive Brokers: Volatility trading with options Introduction Volatility trading using equity options and long/short straddle option strategies combined with a momentum strategy to profit from a high/low volatility on a daily level in the US equities. For testing that strategy Interactive Brokers Trader Workstation was used with paper trading account. In order to quickly react on the market moves, simple market watcher/trading bot was implemented. MarketWatcher bot uses data from Yahoo Finance and Python TWS API. This repository represents group project work for implementing option trading strategies (course in Financial Derivatives for advanced degree Masters in Computational Finance, Union University). Trading strategy Our trading strategy is based on volatility trading. To exploit and profit from both the high and low volatility, we day traded - getting in and out of the positions in the same trading session. Some positions were held overnight as well. In order to profit on a high or low volatility in the equities we traded options using long straddle and short stradle strateg

PythonMITOpen-sourceoptions-strategiesoptions-tradingslack-apislack-webhooktrader-bottrader-workstationtraderapitrading
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Since 2010 · 1 bots

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LanguagePython
LicenseMIT
Last update2025-01-23
Created2021-05-30
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