Options Overview

• Options Get Symbol – After selecting an Options View from the Main Menu, you will first be presented with a popup Window allowing you to select the contract to view.

 

• ATM View – Options windows allow you to analyze the options of an underlying instrument using a number of pricing models.

 

• Series View – The Series Options Window has two parts: Underlying Futures section and Options Section
  
  • Options – Format Excel Link – From either the Series or Strike view, you can select Format Excel Link.
  • Linking Series View – When linking from Options, you have the choice of doing standard DDE linking or the updated RTD linking.

 

• Strike View – The Strike display shows all strike prices for all contract months that are trading under a specific symbol.
  • Options – Format Excel Link – From either the Series or Strike view, you can select Format Excel Link.
  • Linking Strike View – When linking from Options, you have the choice of doing standard DDE linking or the updated RTD linking.

 

• Strategy View – The Strategy View allows you to create and view various options strategies – either standard industry strategy spreads or your own free-form strategies.

 

• Calculator View – The calculator views lets you do analysis based on your own input related to options changes.

 

• Options Windows Properties – You may change many of the values and parameters used in options pricing as part of your assumptions and the what-if analysis that you do.

 

• Options Windows Templates – Options window templates let you design a format for Options that you can use for all of your options displays.