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- Subject: re: Stock Option symbols
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:11:32 GMT
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- In article <BxxL0r.31J@SSD.intel.com> tim@ssd.intel.com (Tim Gates) writes:
- >Is there someone out there that has some information on the stock option
- >symbols for, say, the fortune 500 companies? My local broker has a free,
- >dial-up quoting system and I was looking to track some of the larger company
- >options. Silly me, I thought the stock symbol would be the same as the
- >option symbol with an addition of a strike price and put/call selection, but
- >it isn't. Help anyone?
- >
- >Thanks in advance,
- >tim@ssd.intel.com
-
-
- I don't know how your broker works it but Schwab uses the stock symbol
- plus the put/call Month and Strike price. The put/call Month and Strike
- price are equated with letters of the alphabet (e.g. Jan call -> A). All
- letters of the alphabet are converted to two digit numbers (e.g. A -> 21,
- second phone button, first of three letters on the phone button).
-
- For stocks with four or five letter symbols Schwab assigns a unique
- three letter symbol usually including a Q or Z.
-
- For expiration dates one or more years out Schwab assigns a unique
- three letter stock symbol usually including a Q or Z.
-
- hope this helps
-
- barry
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-