How to view historic options chains e.g. for AMZN?

Discussion in 'Options' started by easymon1, Oct 28, 2019.

  1. easymon1

    easymon1

    How to view historic options chains e.g. for AMZN?

    It seems hard to believe that historic options chains can be viewed, e.g. AMZN = Date time =2019 1024 10:55am through 17:40pm. How would something like that work? Links to source materials would be most excellent.
    Thx
     
  2. easymon1

    easymon1

  3. Matt_ORATS

    Matt_ORATS Sponsor

    You can access historical options data back to 2007 on our API or FTP.
    We have an Excel sheet to get the data too.
    Here are the fields:
    Field Definition
    ticker underlying symbol
    tradeDate trade date
    expirDate expiration date
    dte days to expiration
    strike option strike
    stockPrice stock price
    callVolume call option volume
    callOpenInterest call open interest
    callBidSize call bid size
    callAskSize call ask size
    putVolume put option volume
    putOpenInterest put open interest
    putBidSize put bid size
    putAskSize put ask size
    callBidPrice call bid price
    callValue call theoretical value based on smooth volatility
    callAskPrice call ask price
    putBidPrice put bid price
    putValue put theoretical value
    putAskPrice put ask price
    callBidIv call bid implied volatility
    callMidIv call mid implied volatility
    callAskIv call ask implied volatility
    smvVol ORATS final implied Volatility
    putBidIv put bid implied volatility
    putMidIv put mid implied volatility
    putAskIv put ask implied volatility
    residualRate implied interest rate data
    delta delta
    gamma gamma
    theta theta
    vega vega
    rho rho
    phi phi
    driftlessTheta time decay without taking in drift in underlying
    extSmvVol external volatility
    extCallValue external call theoretical price
    extPutValue external put theoretical price
    spotPrice spot price of the index
    updatedAt date and time of data updated
     
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