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Step 4...Position Charting - Graphically View Your Profitability Curves for Virtually Any Market Scenario

Options trading is not suitable for all investors. Your account application to trade options will be considered and approved or disapproved based on all relevant factors, including your trading experience. Automated trading, as it relates to direct-access electronic placement and execution of equity options trades, requires manual one-click verification before order is sent. Please click here to view the document titled Characteristics and Risks of Standardized Options.

Position Charts helps you perform what-if option strategy scenarios and position risk analysis. Before you ever make a trade, a Position Chart allows you to make a complete examination of any option position or combination of option positions (at any price of the underlying asset, on any date in the future, at any volatility). Position Charts can also display the effects of time and volatility on your positions, and give a detailed graph of all of the Greek risk measures.

Chart any position

You can take any position in the OptionStation Analysis window and easily create a Position Chart for it. You can use Position Charts to determine what to expect at a certain target price of the underlying asset, or you can graphically view the probable maximum profit and breakeven points. Another unique feature called Chart Values gives you the exact dollar value (down to the cent) of your option and its volatility at any point on a chart.

A second chart can simultaneously display the risk of each position using one of five Greeks: Delta, Gamma, Theta, Vega and Rho. Each Greek value represents the risk associated with some change in the price, time value or volatility of an options position. You can select any one of these Greeks to be displayed underneath your existing or hypothetical Position Chart.

New Position Chart Toolbar
A new Position Chart Toolbar now makes it much easier to perform what-if scenarios. With this toolbar you are able to quickly change the X and Y axis, plots and plot parameters in the Position Chart window.
   
Create multiple simultaneous option position charts, based on the same or different assets—all updating in real-time


Option Position Charts can be created to show profit and loss based on changes in underlying asset price, volatility, or time to expiration. In addition to showing position profits or option values, charts can display the values for the Greek risk measures: Delta, Gamma, Theta, Vega, and Rho. You can compare one position on different days or multiple positions on the same day; now with unlimited plot values on each chart, the possibilities are endless. A real-time position value indication, shows you where your position is at right now, and you can read chart values directly off the chart with just a mouse click.

 


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