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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.
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). Stock option names are written in the following format: SYMBOL+MONTH+STRIKE. SYMBOL = Option Root Symbol, normally the stock's ticker symbol
Because options prices are automatically updated as soon as the underlying stock price changes, the potential existed to update at five times as many price points. [3] Dollar Strikes: The standard stock option strike prices are in increments of $2.50 at and below $25, and in $5.00 increments for strikes above $25. A Dollar Strike Program would ...
A ticker symbol or stock symbol is an abbreviation used to uniquely identify publicly traded shares of a particular stock or security on a particular stock exchange. Ticker symbols are arrangements of symbols or characters (generally Latin letters or digits) which provide a shorthand for investors to refer to, purchase, and research securities.
The Western Union Company: WU: United States Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation: WAB: United States Westlake Chemical Partners LP WLKP: United States Westlake Corporation: WLK: United States WestRock Company: WRK: United States Westwood Holdings Group, Inc. WHG: United States WeWork Inc. WE: United States WEX Inc. WEX: United ...
Stock name Symbol Country of origin X Financial XYF: China: XAI Octagon Floating Rate & Alternative Income Trust XFLT: United States: XAI Octagon Floating Rate & Alternative Income Trust XFLT.PRA: United States Xenia Hotels & Resorts, Inc. XHR: United States Xinyuan Real Estate Co., Ltd. XIN: China XPeng Inc. XPEV: China Xperi Inc. XPER: United ...
Option values vary with the value of the underlying instrument over time. The price of the call contract must act as a proxy response for the valuation of: the expected intrinsic value of the option, defined as the expected value of the difference between the strike price and the market value, i.e., max[S−X, 0]. [3]
For example, when a DJI call (bullish/long) option is 18,000 and the underlying DJI Index is priced at $18,050 then there is a $50 advantage even if the option were to expire today. This $50 is the intrinsic value of the option. In summary, intrinsic value: = current stock price − strike price (call option)