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The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) was founded in 1973, initially as a clearing house for five listed markets for equity options. Prior to its establishment, due to a great deal of encouragement from the SEC, the Chicago Board Options Exchange had its clearing entity, the CBOE Clearing Corporation. [citation needed]
Options Clearing Corporation's (OCC) Options Symbology Initiative (OSI) mandated an industry-wide change to a new option symbol structure, resulting in option symbols 21 characters in length. March 2010 - May 2010 was the symbol consolidation period in which all outgoing option roots will be replaced with the underlying stock symbol. [1]
Prior to 2010, [1] standard equity option naming convention in North America, as used by the Options Clearing Corporation, was as follows: For example, an Apple Inc AAPL.O call option that would have expired in December 2007 at a $122.50 strike price would be displayed as APVLZ in old convention (AAPL071222C00122500 in new convention).
O'Connor & Associates was a Chicago-based options trading firm, with a particular emphasis on financial derivatives. The firm was founded in 1977 by Edmund J O'Connor and his brother William O`Connor. In 1992, O'Connor & Associates was acquired by Swiss Bank Corporation. [1]
Assignment occurs when an option holder exercises his option by notifying his broker, who then notifies the Options Clearing Corporation (OCC). The OCC fulfills the contract, then selects, randomly, a member firm who was short the same option contract. The OCC then notifies the firm.
Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE / CFE) [5]; CME Group. International Monetary Market (IMM); Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) (Since 2007 a Designated Contract Market owned by the CME Group)
Exchange-traded options have standardized contracts and are settled through a clearing house with fulfillment guaranteed by the Options Clearing Corporation (OCC). Since the contracts are standardized, accurate pricing models are often available. Exchange-traded options include: [9] [10] Stock options; Bond options and other interest rate options
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