Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Stock Options Chain


On the Right is a picture of a stock option chain. A stock option chain is a list of options that you can buy or sell. As you can see at the top of the page is stock symbol.. AAPL which is Apple, Inc. Next you see below the Stock symbol is a drop down box of expiration dates of when the options expire. Each option, which have their own symbols are separated by Calls and Puts. In the middle is the strike price of each symbol (strike price will be my next post). Next to the symbols is a list of the BID & ASK for each symbol. The bid & ask is the cost to buy or sell each option. The bid would be the amount would sell the option for, and the ask would be the cost to buy it.

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