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Encyclopedia > Chicago Board Options Exchange

The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), located at 400 South LaSalle Street in Chicago, is one of the world's largest options exchanges with an annual trade of over 450 million options contracts, covering more than 1200 companies, 50 stock indexes, and 50 exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The exchange was established in 1973, when it created and listed the first exchange-listed standardized stock options. The CBOE is regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and its options contracts are cleared by the Options Clearing Corporation (OCC). As of approximately April 11, 2007, the Wall Street Journal estimates that globally the market capitalization of the derivatives markets (futures, options, swaps, etc.) exceeds 450 trillion dollars (while US stock exchanges have approximately 30 trillion and the rest of the worlds stock exchanges total to about another 20 trillion, to a total of about 50 trillion---while the global fixed income markets total to roughly 65 trillion). Flag Seal Nickname: The Windy City Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location Location in Chicagoland and northern Illinois Coordinates , Government Country State Counties United States Illinois Cook, DuPage Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 606. ... In finance options are types of derivative contracts, including call options and put options, where the future payoffs to the buyer and seller of the contract are determined by the price of another security, such as a common stock. ... A stock market index is a listing of stocks, and a statistic reflecting the composite value of its components. ... Exchange-traded funds (or ETFs) are open ended mutual funds that can be traded at any time throughout the course of the day. ... The Securities and Exchange Commission, commonly referred to as the SEC, is the United States governing body which has primary responsibility for overseeing the regulation of the securities industry. ... The Options Clearing Corporation is a not-for-profit organization that is used to clear securities option contracts, as well as futures contracts. ...


It intends to start on March 5, 2007 a Reg NMS compliant stock exchange called the Chicago Board Options Stock Exchange (CBSX) to compete with the NYSE, Nasdaq, and other regional exchanges. [1] According to the Securities and Exchange Commissions Final Rule Report issued August 5, 2005, The Commission is adopting Regulation NMS, a series of initiatives designed to modernize and strengthen the national market system (NMS) for equity securities. ... New York Stock Exchange (June 2003) The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is one of the largest stock exchanges in the world. ... NASDAQ in Times Square, New York City. ... A regional stock exchange is an American stock exchange that operates outside of the countrys main financial center in New York City. ...

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Contracts Offered

The CBOE (and other national options exchanges) offers options on the following, and others:

and thousands more securities (with calls and puts of multiple expirations and strike prices). The S&P 500 is an index containing the stocks of 500 Large-Cap corporations, most of which are American. ... The S&P 100, or S&P 100 Index, is a stock index of US stocks made by Standard and Poors. ... OEX may refer to : Orbital experiments (NASA) Château-dÅ’x (Switzerland) S&P 100 ticker symbol. ... Linear graph of the DJIA from 1901 until today Logarithmic graph of the DJIA from 1901 until today The Dow Jones Industrial Average (NYSE: DJI, also called the DJIA, Dow 30, or informally the Dow Jones or The Dow) is one of several stock market indices created by nineteenth-century... The NASDAQ-100 is a stock market index of 100 of the largest domestic and international non-financial companies listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange based on market capitalization. ... The Russell 2000 Index is a stock market index of US stocks. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The NASDAQ-100 is a stock market index of 100 of the largest domestic and international non-financial companies listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange based on market capitalization. ... The Nasdaq Composite is a stock market index of all of the common stocks and similar securities (e. ... The S&P 400, more properly S&P 400 MidCap Index, is a stock market index from Standard & Poors. ... The Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Total Stock Market Index, also known as the Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Composite Index or simply the Wilshire 5000 is a broad base stock market index often used to represent the entire United States stock market. ... Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ... “GE” redirects here. ... Altria Group, Inc. ...


The CBOE calculates and disseminates the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX), the CBOE S&P 500 BuyWrite Index (BXM), and other indexes. VIX Index from inception to Jan. ... The CBOE S&P 500 BuyWrite Index (ticker symbol BXM) is a benchmark index designed to show the hypothetical performance of a portfolio that engages in a buy-write strategy. ...


See also

Related: Call option, put option, moneyness, option time value, put-call parity, Black-Scholes, Black model, binomial options model, volatility smile, option adjusted spread, option screeners This article does not cite any references or sources. ... A put option (sometimes simply called a put) is a financial contract between two parties, the buyer and the writer of the option. ... In finance, moneyness is a measure of the degree to which a derivative security is likely to have positive monetary value at its expiration. ... Option Value In finance, the value of an option consists of two components, its intrinsic value and its time value. ... In financial mathematics, put-call parity defines a relationship between the price of a European call option and a European put option - both with the identical strike price and expiry. ... The Black-Scholes model, often simply called Black-Scholes, is a model of the varying price over time of financial instruments, and in particular stocks. ... The Black model (sometimes known as the Black-76 model) is a variant the Black-Scholes option pricing model. ... In finance, the binomial options model provides a generalisable numerical method for the valuation of options. ... Volatility Smile refers to the long-observed pattern in which at-the-money options tend to have lower implied volatilities than other options. ... Option adjusted spread (OAS) is the flat spread over the treasury yield curve required to discount a mortgage-backed securitys volatile coupon payments to match its market price. ... An option screener is a tool that evaluates options based on criteria and generates a list of potential trading ideas. ...


Options: Stock option, warrant, foreign exchange option, bond option, options on futures, swaption, interest rate cap and floor, credit default option, binary option, real option, option (films), Options symbols Main article: Option A stock option is a specific type of option that uses the stock itself as an underlying instrument to determine the options pay-off (and therefore its value). ... For other uses of the term Warrant, see Warrant (disambiguation) A warrant is a security that entitles the holder to buy or sell a certain additional quantity of an underlying security. ... In finance, a foreign exchange option (commonly shortened to just FX option or currency option) is a derivative financial instrument where the owner has the right but not the obligation to exchange money denominated in one currency into another currency at a pre-agreed exchange rate on a specified date. ... A bond option is similar to a stock option with the difference that the underlying asset is a bond. ... In finance, a futures contract is a standardized contract, traded on a futures exchange, to buy or sell a certain underlying instrument at a certain date in the future, at a specified price. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... // Interest rate cap An interest rate cap is a derivative in which the buyer receives money at the end of each period in which an interest rate exceeds the agreed strike price. ... In finance, a default option or credit default option is a put option that makes a payoff in the event the issuer of a specified reference asset defaults. ... A binary option is a type of option where the payoff is either some fixed amount of some asset or nothing at all. ... A real option is the right, but not the obligation, to undertake some business decision, typically the option to make a capital investment. ... In the film industry, an option is a contractual agreement between a movie studio, a production company, or a producer (henceforth called the producer) and a writer, in which the producer obtains the right to buy a screenplay from the writer, before a certain date. ... In the simplest case, the ticker (trading) symbols for US options typically look like this: IBMAF . ...


Finance articles: Derivatives market, financial mathematics, financial economics, finance, list of finance topics, list of finance topics (alphabetical), volatility Index The derivatives markets are the financial markets for derivatives. ... Mathematical finance is the branch of applied mathematics concerned with the financial markets. ... Financial economics is the branch of economics concerned with resource allocation over time. ... Finance studies and addresses the ways in which individuals, businesses, and organizations raise, allocate, and use monetary resources over time, taking into account the risks entailed in their projects. ... Topics in finance include: // Finance an overview Arbitrage Capital (economics) Capital asset pricing model Cash flow Cash flow matching Debt Default Consumer debt Debt consolidation Debt settlement Credit counseling Bankruptcy Debt diet Debt-snowball method Discounted cash flow Financial capital Funding Financial modeling Entrepreneur Entrepreneurship Fixed income analysis Gap financing... This list provides an alphabetical index of articles on finance related topics. ... VIX Index from inception to Jan. ...


References

  1. [2] History of CBOE

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Chicago Board Options Exchange - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (160 words)
The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), located at 400 South LaSalle Street in Chicago, is one of the world's largest options exchanges with an annual trade of over 15 billion shares of stock options in more than 1200 companies, 50 stock indexes, and 50 exchange-traded funds (ETFs)
The CBOE is regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and its options contracts are cleared by the Options Clearing Corporation (OCC).
The CBOE calculates and disseminates the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX), the CBOE SandP 500 BuyWrite Index (BXM), and other indexes.
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