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To: Patrick Slevin who wrote (41490)11/24/2000 11:49:18 AM
From: Louis V. Lambrecht  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 44573
 
Patrick - thanks bunches.

Question was :"How to get the options montage sheet?"
Guess there is no way.

The trickiest part... unfortunately, our data provider (S&P Comstock) does not standardize any convention for the strike price part of a future option symbol. The only way to figure out what the proper 3 digits are is with Trial and Error. Many times if the strike price is 4 digits long you simply drop the first number. If it is 5 digits, you drop the first and last number. Below are some examples of complete symbols:...

Trial and Error ?