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Strategies & Market Trends : The Covered Calls for Dummies Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Gary E who wrote (2978)	11/8/2001 9:33:49 AM
From: LemurHouse	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5205

<<is there a way to "see" the price of a option on different exchanges>> If you add exchange qualifiers after your options symbol, you can get the prices listed on the specific exchanges. The qualifiers are .co for chicgo, .xo philadelphia, .po pacific, .ao american I haven't figured out how to stream this real time, but can get individual spot real time just by adding the qualifier after the symbol. For example, ABCKK.co

To: Gary E who wrote (2978)	11/8/2001 10:39:26 AM
From: Kayaker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5205

I use QCharts and only see one price. If you use QCharts, you should be looking at a 'Time & Sales' window for option quotes on the various exchanges. Click on 'File', then 'New', then 'Time & Sales'. At the top of the new window, click on 'Sym' until it turns green. Then, in your main Quotesheet, click on any option and the Time & Sales data will appear in the window, i.e., all quotes streaming from all exchanges.

To: Gary E who wrote (2978)	11/8/2001 5:39:29 PM
From: Dan Duchardt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5205

Hal, is there a way to "see" the price of a option on different exchanges? Yes, at a couple of different levels. With IB you can display a single line for each option that shows the best prices and identifies the exchanges quoting that price. It also has a "market depth" display that shows prices away from the inside market, but does not identify the exchanges. In addition, if you choose you can display a separate quote line for each option. In older versions of IB software you had to do this to direct orders to specific exchanges, but this is no longer necessary. I just use the single line, check the depth rarely, and direct orders to the exchange I choose. For very liquid options I may let IB route it for me. Dan