Option Strategy Board

The Option Strategy Board displays all exchange-supported option strategy markets. Whenever a new strategy is created, as soon as the exchange lists it, we will automatically pick it up and display it. To create or define your own option strategies, the Options Pro Package is required. You can open a new option strategy board from the main window's New Item Menu.

TIP: The Option Strategy Board’s column layout is fully customizable.

• Drag the column header to move.
• Drag the column header side border to resize.
• Click the column header to resort (only the contract header is sortable).

Quotes are displayed as follows:

• Best bid price and volume → *Blue*
• Best offer price and volume → *Red*
• Last traded price and volume → *Green*

Many additional columns are available in Quote Board Properties.

The Strategy Board allows you to submit orders by clicking the bid and offer columns:

• Clicking a bid or offer price will open an Order Ticket ready to join the best bid or offer.
• Clicking a bid or offer volume will open an Order Ticket ready to hit the best bid or offer.

Across the top of the strategies window is a list of months available. To the right of each month is a drop-down arrow that provides a list of all available strategies for that month.

Columns can be added and removed via Properties. In the Advanced Section, you can add details such as:

• Open Interest
• Days Remaining
• Settlement
• Expiry Date

TIP: The Display Tab in Strategy Board Properties allows you to:

• Give your window a unique name.
• Adjust the font.
• Save the window as a default, applying layout changes to an Option Strategy Board for a different product.

Since these are all exchange-supported option strategies, the exchange may close the market due to inactivity, displaying the mode as expired.

If you have the Advanced Data Package, you can:

• Right-click on the expired market.
• Select RFQ (Request for Quote), which sends a message to the exchange to reopen the market.
• If accepted, the market mode will change to open.

From this right-click menu, you can also:

• Select Trade Contract, which brings up a trading ladder for that strategy.
• If you have the Options Pro Package, you can:
• Send this strategy to the Option Strategy Solver.
• Save it to your Saved Strategies Window.

TIP: Notice the 300C+(300P) shows expired in the example image. After using the RFQ, the market is now open in the updated screenshot.