21 Option Strategies - Details on several derivative strategies, including long(short) put/call, bull(bear) spread, butterfly, straddle, strangle, ratio call/put spread, futures, synthetics, ratio backspread, box or conversion.
4Options - A guide to stock options from 4anything.com. Manage your investments with financial news, quotes, market rates and indices and other links.
Aantix Options Report - Provides up to the minute probabilities of an option reaching its given strike price.
About.com Options and Futures - A collection of articles, features, and links about trading options and futures.
Aegean Capital Management, Inc. - Provides market timing, stock, option recommendations and managed account services. Recommendations are free of charge until the end of the year.
AEX Amsterdam Exchanges - Amsterdam Exchanges stocks and financial news. Customise your portfolio and preferences. Also has a stockticker available.
Applied Derivatives Trading - Monthly magazine about all aspects of trading and using options, futures and other derivatives around the world. Sign up for a free subscription.
Ask Dr. Risk - Question forum about definitions of derivative products, statistical properties, mathematical models for risk management and trading strategies.
Australian Options
Axone Java Option Calculators - Graphing calculators for single and multiple option positions, as well as bonds and forward rates.
Bay Options - option analysis and risk management software for investors, brokers, and traders.
Belgian Futures and Options Exchange - Prices, market data, and contract specifications for derivatives traded on the Belgian exchange.
Bernie Schaeffer's Option Advisor - Online options newsletter featuring: aggressive, LEAPs and put selling recommendations; market commentaries; strategies. Free option trading course with subscription.
Beta Plus Inc - Subscription service offering daily covered call, straddles, and spread pick.
Black-Scholes Animation - Uses the power of computer animation and price-path simulations to teach the basics of stock options and to make Black-Scholes theory intuitively accessible.
Canada: Options
CBOE - The Chicago Board Options Exchange - The Chicago Board Options Exchange, the world's largest options market, trades 95% of all index options and 47% of all equity options. CBOE lists options on equities, indexes and interest rates as well as linked notes and warrants.
CBOE Quote Services - The official source for option price quotes. Very easy to use.
Chicago Mercantile Exchange - Trades dervatives on currencies, interest rates, equity indices, and agricultural commodities.
CMI’s Option Trading 2000 - Short term stock and index options trading via e-mail and telephone hotlines. Free daily chart updates, 22-year history charts, 12-year real-time track record and bi-weekly publications.
Covered calls and credit spreads - The web's premier covered call guide for the serious covered call writer. The site was founded by a covered call writer for writers of covered calls.
CoveredCalls.com - Free data for covered call investing, including a covered calls calculator for analyzing positions.
Cyboursoft Options Trading Database - Listed options database for traders, brokers, and investors. Search our database for options information.
Delray Capital Corporation - Information on a limited partnership investing in LEAPS.
Dynamic Devices Ltd. - Windows softwares for derivatives, options, warrants, futures, bonds, portfolio hedging, risk management, to maximize the yield, to combine securities, to master the risks of fluctuating interest rates, to build up synthetic securities, etc.
Financial Web: Options - Offers options quotes and charts. Extremely invaluable for technical analysis of options.
FinTools by Montgomery Investment Technology - Options and bonds valuation software and calculators.
Futures and Options Guide
Holt's Option Market Reports
INO Global Markets - Comprehensive site for futures and options traders. News, quotes, charts and options chains.
Investor's Advantage - for performing analysis on stocks, commodities, mutual funds, options and market indices.
InvestorsClub - Buy sell advice of puts, calls, spreads. For the beginnger through advanced.
Its Your Option - Investment advice and professional research.
IWS Financial - Offers option picks with payment based on the percentage gain of the picks.
KBC Derivatives Newsletters - Issued bimonthly with the intention to introduce the reader to new options and financial structures.
live charts
MarketCompass - Option courses taught by market makers and floor brokers from the Pacific Exchange (PCX).
May Consulting - MicroHedge - develops and sells an option analysis and risk management software tool.
MegaReturns.com - Covered call and stock options resource.
Midas Touch Options Calculator - Learn how options are priced: The key parameters, the significance of each, and the impact of changes. Also includes free option trading tips.
Momentum On-Line - A weekly e-mail newsletter for option traders identifying put and call opportunities.
Monthly Profits Newsletter - Site provides information on covered calls, free report, and a subscription service offering covered call candidates, training manual, Monthly Profits Newsletter and E-mail updates.
Night-Trading.com - Overview of all AEX stocks. Target prices, historical open interest graphs, estimated expiration and more.
NumaWeb - Derivatives Resource Center
OEX Street.COM - Free site for daytrading OEX options. Advanced service broadcasts Live intraday signals via instant messaging. Free trial available.
Office for Futures and Options Research (OFOR)
Online Java Bermuda Swaption Pricer - The Bermuda Swaption Pricer is a full fledged Bermuda Fixed vs. Deposit Rate Swaption Pricer applet. Requires Java 1.2 or that the Java Plug In 1.2 or higher be installed.
Option Engine - Computers compile pricing and other information on thousands of stocks and the options.
Option Insight - Free Windows software that downloads option quotes from the Internet and then shows you all possible spreads. Allows sorting by various criteria, such as break even price, reward risk ratio, etc. Each spread also shows a profit loss graph.
Option Internet Freeware - Options software which features: option valuation and matrix, position chart and management, strategies search, option tutorial, internet links.
Option Money Portfolio Software - Software designed for option traders to track their portfolio and option trades: financial reports, tax reports, account summary, and holding reports.
Option Oracle - option strategy analysis software for the individual investor.
Option strategy evaluation model - A MS Excel-based options evaluation model using BS methodology, includes graphing. Appears free to download.
Option Tutor - Provides analytical and graphical tools. A complete guide to options and futures for students, individual and professional investors.
Option Underground - Tools to help you analyze and manage your stock and stock option portfolios.
Option Wizard - Stock options pricer measures your probability of success, shows premium decay in tables and charts, puts the power of Microsoft Excel to work for you.
Option Wizard Online - Provides commercial MS Excel based option analytical software. Evaluation offer available on site.
Option Yield Report - Covered calls advisory makes claims that are not born by historical data on option writing.
Optionetics - Daily articles, news, fora and analysis tools.
Optionfind.com - A free stock options and covered call search engine using end of day option data. Ability to export results to Microsoft Excel. Registration required.
OptionInvestor.com - Internet advisory service for individual investors seeking insightful stock market commentary, options strategies and trading opportunities. Free trial subscription
OptionMax! - Option software which suggest different trading strategies
OptionOracle 2000 - Option Traders Resources - Powerful option trading tools for the individual investor. Option software and educational products guaranteed to jump start your options trading to a new level of profitability.
OPTIONS - Brisbane
Options for Action - Monthly newsletter for day traders and options traders. Daily market commentary, Y2K investments and books.
Options Industry Council - An introduction to options and related strategies. Free option quotes, free seminars and interactive software - "The Options Toolbox".
Options Newsletter - Covered call and stock option ideas updated daily.
Options Newsletter Service - Site oriented towards options newsletter. Also provides technical indicators related to options trading and limited investor education.
Options Trading Software - Commercial options trading/analysis software available for monthly fee.
OptionsOnly - Subscription based market timing and trading recommendations.
OptionSource.Com
OptionVue Systems Int'l., Inc. - Designed to handle every type of option and every type of options analysis ever conceived.
OSCC Option Trading Tools - Commercial site for option trading Tools. Also provides newsletter related to options.
P M Halperin-Derivatives Trading Risk Management Scribblings - Financial derivatives trading and risk management essays, articles, humour, definitions, and thought pieces including innovative techniques, from the point of view of a seasoned practioner.
Pacific Exchange - Stock & Options - Quotes, charts and company information on the stocks and options traded at PCX. Register to retrieve information on up to 100 stocks in your personal portfolio.
PC Financial Network
PDA Gopher
Philipponnat & Associés - Among other services, offers free calculators for standard equity options and a subscription service for exotic options calculators.
PMpublishing - Offers the Professional Options Package (POP), risk management software for futures and options traders. Site includes daily volatility summary, options calculator, links, and trading tutorials.
Rocky Point Options Analysis Software - This site offers a free web-based browser for options analysis (Win32). Downloads freely-available quotes from the net, and displays data plus derived values (delta, gamma, theta, etc.).
SafeWay Options Strategies Workshops(tm) - Offers seminars on options strategies in Ellicott City, Maryland.
Savvysoft - Performance derivatives software. Infinitely customizable, handles all types of derivatives.
Stock Options Guide - Fax newsletter written by Jerry Kopf, an options broker with 32 years experience. Strategies include debit spreads and selling puts.
StockOptions - Options On-Line newsletter (subscription)
Street Wired - Provides research and investment recommendations in the areas of options, leaps, under-researched stocks, industry sectors and technically attractive stocks.
The Chicago Board of Options Exchange - USA
The Daily Option Trader - Mathematical volatility based, nondirectional, trading signals and strategies for options on futures.
The International Securities Exchange - A private all electronic options exchange in the United States established in 1997.
The Option Club - Features research on option strategies for equity, indices and futures. Aims to provide research for all types of options traders.
The Option Strategist - Short term and options trading site. Free weekly commentary, data and tools.
The Options Resource Center - Academic quality papers and examples dealing with all aspects of options. Content intensive and comprehensive site.
The Wolf - Daily service for option traders. Using option volume and open interest, The Wolf finds options under accumulation by "smart money" that has potential to quickly double
Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE) - Options and Futures - Introduction to the Derivative section of TSE.com
Usenet - misc.invest.options
WriteCall.com - Covered call training, research and alert services.
Writing puts, Selling puts, Bull put spreads - Subscription service offering put option picks on a monthly basis.
Wyse Securities
Your Option - Options trading information and advisory services.