Options Chart Explained. The options market overview page provides a snapshot of today s market activity and recent news affecting the options markets. A call option is a contract that gives the buyer the right to buy 100 shares of an underlying equity at a predetermined price the strike price for a preset period of time.
Options information is delayed a minimum of 15 minutes and is updated at least once every 15 minutes through out the day. Fluctuations in option prices can be explained by intrinsic value and extrinsic value which is also known as time value. An option s premium is the combination of its intrinsic value and time value.
The listing includes information on premium volume open interest etc for different strike prices.
The options market overview page provides a snapshot of today s market activity and recent news affecting the options markets. Let s first see how an option chain looks like and understand the various data available in it. An option chain chart is a listing of call and put options available for an underlying for a specific expiration period. Expiration months as you can see from the picture there are several different expiration months listed horizontally across the top of the option chain aug 09 sep 09 dec 09 etc.
