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Tutorial 162 | Using the Options Chain Provider and Quotes Provider

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Tutorial 162 is a new tutorial that demonstrates how to create a Showme study that uses the Option Chain Provider (OCP) and the Quotes Provider (QP) objects.

The Showme study needs real-time bars to function. It only works with stocks.

A method calls the OCP to find options for the stock symbol that is applied to the chart.

After creating the OCP, the tutorial program calls the QP to create a quote object for each of the option symbols in the option chain. For each quote, two update events are set up, one for put options and the other for call options.

Each time the update is fired the program retrieves the strike price and the trade volume for the option that was updated. It updates a dictionary with the highest trade volume for each strike price for the bar being calculated. Calls and puts are processed separately.

The program constantly sorts a vector of the trade volumes and determines the strike prices with the highest trade volume, the second highest trade volume and the third highest trade volume for the bar in progress. The top three strike prices, by volume, are plotted for calls and the top three values are plotted for puts.

The tutorial gives examples of using the options chain provider, using the quotes provider, creating and using methods, creating vectors from a dictionary, clearing vectors and coordinating sorting of the two vectors with each other.

Walk-through of Tutorial 162

Download the tutorial 162 tutorial Showme study (_Tutorial 162-OptionVolumeExtremes)

If you want to save yourself some typing the tutorial 162 Showme study available for immediate download for $19.95 by clicking the following button. You can pay using PayPal or credit card. The program works with TradeStation 9.5, and TradeStation 10 but is not compatible with MultiCharts.

The show-me is unprotected, in other words, you will be able to see, modify and experiment with the tutorial’s code.

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