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To: Cents who wrote (796)12/7/1998 6:27:00 PM
From: Gersh Avery  Respond to of 99985
 
Cents .. Re options markets

Options start trading about 10 min after market open and stop at 4:15PM.

Gersh



To: Cents who wrote (796)12/7/1998 6:44:00 PM
From: Patrick Slevin  Respond to of 99985
 
Options

Gersh is partially correct.

Options start trading once the underlying instrument is trading. If the underlying instrument is an index it's when some percentage is trading; maybe it's 80%, I don't recall.

Index Options halt at 4:15 EST but Equity Options @ 4:10.