Option Wizard with backtest, (Option Wizard, Inc.) Options calculator for Microsoft Excel spreadsheet software. by John Sweeney How facile are you at using Excel? If you can handle cut-and-paste, then you can get Option Wizard, a great little options calculator, for a comparatively low price. You just have to be ready to handle the data input by exporting numbers from your database to ASCII, loading them into Excel, copying the days you want and pasting them into Option Wizard. Alternatively, you can use historical volatilities for most stocks and indices from the Web (provided by Lawrence G. McMillan at http://optionstrategist.com), and dispense with the cut-and-paste regimen, if you prefer. Next, you put in the strike price, the expiration date, risk-free rate, implied volatility, dividend schedule and the price of the underlying stock or index. From there on, everything is virtually instantaneous (Figure 1). |
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