The various types of option orders are valuable in assessing and identifying opportunity during the current market environment. Some features of interest pertinent to options trading, as well as underlying equities are: • Identification of option market participant...
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Option skew data points – specifically option implied volatility as a function of a strike for a fixed expiration – are a rich and an exploitable source of opportunity to take advantage of the flow of information between the equity (underlying) and options...
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Accurate real-time data is essential to the proper functioning of the options market, but it would be enormously challenging for individual organizations to collect and process options market data. Exchanges involved in options trading generate orders of magnitude...
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A market data feed provides price and other information so market participants can decide whether to buy or sell securities and commodities. Raw market data feeds are generated by exchanges such as the New York Stock Exchange and organizations such as the Options...
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Systematic options trading can be used by equity investment organizations either as additional sources of alpha and yield enhancement or as efficient protection strategies. Put options can be used in two large classes of strategies: stock replacement (put...
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SpiderRock provides low latency multicast feeds for real-time market data needs. These feeds provide real-time price data for a variety of US markets including equities, options, and futures. SpiderRock’s real-time market data feeds are provided through an API and are...
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