Options analysis functionality

[Surgo]

I've been trying to find new trading software and Medved Trader looks very nice. But half of my trading is in options, and there is some functionality missing before I could use Medved Trader.

While an option chain is able to be displayed, it is missing the functionality it needs to be useful. For the basics: greeks and IV do not appear in the chain at all. This data should be able to be retrieved through most data sources and brokers. For example with IB, it is returned along with the rest of the market data for the option. See the API docs here: http://interactivebrokers.github.io/tws-api/option_computations.html#opt_calculations&gsc.tab=0

More useful though is actually doing charting with options spreads. Charting the past is not necessarily as useful, but charting the future can be very useful. Being able to chart theoretical gain/loss of a spread given underlying price, time to expiration, and implied volatility would make Medved Trader a usable options platform.

[Jerry Medved]

Surgo, 

the future option charting that you refer to is currently out of scope for us. Way too many other things on the plate.  

Greeks - we have the columns available and get them from some sources. I will check on IB. 

[Surgo]

Thanks for the rapid response. If Medved Trader provides an API that allows creating custom charts, it should not be too difficult for this functionality to be provided by a third party.