Understanding Options Symbols

You can find the underlying stock price, along with the option strike price, expiration date, and whether it was a “Put” or “Call” right from the option symbol!

AAPL1504L85 is the way we write our options and can differ from other websites or brokerages.
Our options are written: Symbol Year Day (Call or Put and Month) Strike Price.

Call or Put and month:
A – L are for January – December Calls respectively
M – X are for January – December Puts respectively

In the example above AAPL1504L85 is an AAPL 2015 December Call for $85 strike price.

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