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What are the building blocks for a successful options trading model? Many investors who are getting started with options begin by analyzing historical data and end-of-day prices. Historical data is important for updating options trading models while access to deep,...
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Provider Experience and Expertise is Key. A great options data partner is not solely defined by the strength of its product and service offering. Some options data providers rely on inexperienced or ill-equipped staff to manage or control costs and this method is...
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Are Your Option Analytics Accurate? Simply having an eye on the numbers is not enough. To ensure data consistency, live market data and analytics should be integrated with the same data source and produced holistically. Combining historical data with live analytics,...
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How do you evaluate Raw and Normalized Option Feeds? Raw data feeds should generally include basic equity prices and underlying fundamental data direct from an exchange or the Options Price Reporting Authority (OPRA) prices. A normalized feed is more manageable...
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Options Data Needs & Considerations Options data is hard. Making decisions on investment priorities that involve options is based on a bedrock of solid analytics driven by market data and powerful, low-latency algorithms. Good options market data product can make...
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We used CBOE end-of-data from January to beginning of April 2020, classified in two subsets based on SPX returns greater than 20 bps or lower than -20 bps and selected the corresponding returns in three macro factors, VIX, TYVIX and OVX (the last two being the...
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