Financial exchanges for Options

Course Name: Options Trading Strategies In Python: Basic, Section No: 2, Unit No: 3, Unit type: Video  

In this lecture video, I can see a list of Options, their trading prices, expiration date etc for the NSE market and thus I was wondering how to obtain the same information for other markets, i.e. US or European markets and for different types of options (i.e., exchanged/OTC/, Exoctic/Assian options)?



Gabriel.

Hi Gabriel,

You can source the data from data vendors(E.g. Bloomberg) or from brokers(e.g. Interactive Brokers) who provide API access.

Also, you may check our blog for detailed information on obtaining market data.



Hope this helps!

 

Hi Gaurav,



Thank you for your helpful answer and I checked that blog article and was already aware of the information there. I actually would like to have a table, as the one shown in that lecture which is labelled "Option Chain" for NSE market but for other type of options (i.e., exotic etc) and option exchanges just for the sake of my curiosity :-) to understand more about different types of option markets in the real world.



Disclaimer: I am a newbie regarding of trading options :slight_smile: and thus my question/curiosity might not make sense. (Software engineering).



Thanks.  

Hi Gabriel,

No worries on whether you are a newbie or not, all questions are welcome!



For any other option chain, if for viewing purpose only, you may just google, "Option Chain for XYZ", if you need it programmatically it can be done by streaming option data for all strikes and then making the option chain at your end.

If you need it in your broker window, IB offers a solution as shown here, other brokers may offer similar solutions too.



Hope this helps!