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CBOE offers a wide variety of trading tools to help you make more informed trading decisions. You can also register with MyCBOE to receive email alerts including Contract Adjustments, New Option Listings, Daily New Series, and more.

CBOE is proud to offer the new, state of the art Virtual Trade Tool designed to let you test your trading knowledge and market savvy without putting any money on the line.

paperMoney is the newest of our two free trading tools and provides a great opportunity for options traders of all skill levels to safely explore real-world trading applications and test new options strategies.

Use CBOE's suite of Volatility Optimizer tools to identify potential trading opportunities and analyze market moves. Check out the following new tools:

  • Volume
  • IV Index
  • Options Calculator
  • Strategist Scanner
  • Volatility Ranker
  • Advanced Options
  • Spread Scanner

Learn what's really happening in the options markets. Watch the "CBOE Options Report with Doctor J," hosted by well-known options trader and financial commentator Jon "Doctor J" Najarian, and "In The Money" with Angela Miles. Click here to view a preview.

Look-up option symbols in alphabetical order by company name.

Use this archive to find contract adjustment memos for all CBOE listings.

Use this archive to find CBOE New Listings, Daily New Series, and Expiration Memos.

View the Options Expiration Calendar which includes:

  • Product expiration dates
  • Exchange holidays
  • LEAPS conversion dates, and more

View charts detailing monthly expiration cycles, expiration month codes, and strike price codes.

View a complete listing of index overflow/wrap symbols for CBOE products.

View the Top 20 volatility gainers and losers for the past 30-days of trading activity, view put/call ratios, put/call open interest, see comparisons of implied vs. historical volatilities, and much more.

View direct-from-the-source investment-related event information such as Earnings Calls, Annual Investor Meetings, Analyst Meetings and more.

Search and view the latest breaking market news and headlines.

Check out the latest news as provided by TheStreet.com.

Visit the CBOE Margin Requirements page in order to access the Margin Calculator and to download a PDF version of the Margin Manual, which lists margin requirements for CBOE-listed products.

Check out the all new "COBWeb", the CBOE Complex Order Book on the Web. Now you can generate the price and size of CBOE top-of-the-book resting complex spread orders in real-time. Spread types include Combos, Diagonals, Straddles, Pseudo Straddles, Ratio Spreads, Vertical Spreads, and Time Spreads. Also feel free to check out our COBWeb Spread Education Center.

Learn about inter-exchange procedures in volatile markets.

View a list of select options brokers.

Can't find what you're looking for? Visit our related sites where you will find options-related information presented by various third-party companies.

This page is a collection of links to various site resources and important documents, available for download.




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