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Option Historical Data: where to buy and how to convert .t8? #470200
01/02/18 14:24
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I ran the example strangle selling code from financial hacker site on artifical SPY date (downloaded from Zorro site). I compared the option prices with ThinkOrSwim option prices. I see 10-40% differences in option prices so I believe the artificial historical data is far from optimal for backtesting.
Can somebody recommend where to buy EOD option data and how to convert it to .t8 format? Thanks.

Re: Option Historical Data: where to buy and how to convert .t8? [Re: konorti] #470201
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We get data mostly from iVolatility, but there are also other sources. Conversion to .t8 is no problem using the dataParse function, but iVolatility has a dozen different formats, so you must adapt the format string.


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