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Expiration date, 6 digits in the format yymmdd; Option type, either P or C, for put or call; Strike price, as the price x 1000, front padded with 0s to 8 digits; Examples: [4] SPX 141122P00019500. The above symbol represents a put on SPX, expiring on 11/22/2014, with a strike price of $19.50. LAMR 150117C00052500
In finance, the expiration date of an option contract (represented by Greek letter tau, τ) is the last date on which the holder of the option may exercise it according to its terms. [1] In the case of options with "automatic exercise", the net value of the option is credited to the long and debited to the short position holders.
Time value decays to zero at expiration, with a general rule that it will lose 1 ⁄ 3 of its value during the first half of its life and 2 ⁄ 3 in the second half. [2] As an option moves closer to expiry, moving its price requires an increasingly larger move in the price of the underlying security.
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The simultaneous expirations generally increases the trading volume of options, futures, and their underlying stocks, occasionally increasing the volatility of prices of related securities. On those same days single-stock futures also expire, so that the final hour is sometimes referred to as the quadruple witching hour.
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This is called "exercise by exception". A broker or holder of such options may request that they not be exercised by exception. The price of the underlying security used to determine the need for exercise by exception is the price of the regular-hours trade reported last to the OCC at or before 4:01:30 pm ET on the day before expiration.