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    An options symbol contains information about the underlying asset, expiration date, strike price, and whether it is a call or put option. The symbol includes the ticker of the underlying stock, the expiration year and month using two digits each, the expiration day using two digits, and C or P to indicate call or put followed by the strike price represented with four digits after the decimal. Clicking the option symbol provides a detailed summary page with information like the root symbol, expiration details, option type, last trade details, trading range, and bid-ask prices.

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    An options symbol contains information about the underlying asset, expiration date, strike price, and whether it is a call or put option. The symbol includes the ticker of the underlying stock, the expiration year and month using two digits each, the expiration day using two digits, and C or P to indicate call or put followed by the strike price represented with four digits after the decimal. Clicking the option symbol provides a detailed summary page with information like the root symbol, expiration details, option type, last trade details, trading range, and bid-ask prices.

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    Read Option Symbol

    Uploaded by

    Gopikumar Manoharan
    An options symbol contains information about the underlying asset, expiration date, strike price, and whether it is a call or put option. The symbol includes the ticker of the underlying stock, the expiration year and month using two digits each, the expiration day using two digits, and C or P to indicate call or put followed by the strike price represented with four digits after the decimal. Clicking the option symbol provides a detailed summary page with information like the root symbol, expiration details, option type, last trade details, trading range, and bid-ask prices.

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    How to read an option symbol

    Options symbols contain key information about an option. Yahoo Finance uses OCC
    (Options Clearing Corporation) symbology. Click an option symbol to see its option
    summary page.

    Read an option symbol


    The components of an options symbol are:

    Root symbol (ticker symbol) + Expiration Year (yy) + Expiration Month (mm) +
    Expiration Day (dd) + Call/Put Indicator (C or P) + Strike Price*.

    Options symbol: YHOO150416C00030000

    What it means:

    Component Value Location in symbol


    Root Symbol YHOO YHOO150416C00030000
    Expiration Year 2015 YHOO150416C00030000
    Expiration Month 04 YHOO150416C00030000
    Expiration Day 16 YHOO150416C00030000
    Call or Put Call YHOO150416C00030000
    Strike Price* $30.00 YHOO150416C00030000
    *The decimal point falls 3 places from the right in the options symbol: 00000.000

    Detailed option summary


    Click an option symbol to go to its option summary page showing detailed trading
    information including:

    The root symbol the option applies to.


    The expiration day, month, and year.
    Whether the option is a call or a put.
    The time and value of the last trade.
    The day's trading range.
    Bid and ask prices.
    Trading volume.

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