[Rainmaker626]

Once an Option has expire, are there ways to see the historical quote information?

[JUANEBAT]

Once an Option is expired , at least at Fidelity the symbol becomes invalid.
I doubt the history can be retrieved. I can not see the usefulness to do so. You can before expiration take snap shots with screen hunter of options charts and option chains .
Sorry I could not help much

[SIUYA]

depends on the system and the data feed provider.

[Tams]

Originally Posted by Rainmaker626 »

Once an Option has expire, are there ways to see the historical quote information?

Optionetics has a subscription service called Platinum, which provides users with historical (EOD) option quotes, and a sophisticated backtest system that can handle multi-leg, multi-underlying, in/out scalable backtests.

[Rainmaker626]

Originally Posted by Tams »

Optionetics has a subscription service called Platinum, which provides users with historical (EOD) option quotes, and a sophisticated backtest system that can handle multi-leg, multi-underlying, in/out scalable backtests.

I will try out their 14 day-free trial and see I am able to see what I am looking for..

I am watching one option and I wanted to see how it normally behaves on expiration day. I am not even looking for tick by tick. I just want to look back at the stock price, market conditions for that day and the Open/Close for the option for that day...

I am truly hoping I can find that out with Optionetics... It would be well worth the $1000 annual subscription

[Tams]

if you are serious about trading options,
you can check out OptionVue.
It is an expensive software, plus monthly subscription fee.
but it can analyze option price behavior like a rocket scientist.

[SIUYA]

if you are only after something like that for expiry day only you dont need a platform really.
Unless you are in a really crappy market with big spreads, on expiry day all the in the options both puts and calls will generally be bid just below their intrinsic value, while the at the money will swing between partiy and effectively zero for the day, apart from people wanting to exit these options.
If you are looking just for expiry day action, there is generally not much more to it than that and getting a course of sales for liquid options and comparing it to the course of sales for the underlying for the day should confirm this. If not I would suggest the market makers there are taking people for a ride.

[JUANEBAT]

I am a newbie with only a couple of years trading options. But my bias is that expired options historical data have a very little potential to be of any value to predict the behavior of current active options.
It may require a lot of effort for no valuable or meaningful information

AM I wrong ?



Even in active options I see often ilogical disparity in the price behavior just one stirke price
ahead ...


Example while the price of the same expiration date of Sina when up 0.10 cents , the price when down for the one line above and one like below...
How come ?
I will try to post the picture of part of the option chain .
Again , remember I do not know much