| The NASDAQ Options Market |
Overview
The NASDAQ Options Market (NOM) offers participants a price/time priority trading system running on NASDAQ’s world class INET technology. The trading system offers low-latency trading, routing to other exchanges, price improvement and sophisticated functionality such as reserve and minimum acceptable quantity (MAQ) orders.
The exchange also offers Depth of Market and Best of NASDAQ Options proprietary data feeds, which provide subscribers the fastest updates to NOM's order book. For ordering information please contact your NASDAQ OMX Global Data Products Account Manager at +1 301 978 5307, option #2.
To learn more about the benefits of trading on NOM, refer to our Price Improvement Fact Sheet and Functionality and Order Type Fact Sheet.
NEW! Check out the NOM BookViewer to see real-time order data from the NOM book.
NASDAQ Options Market Data
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Price Improvement - Options
Market Volume - NASDAQ Options
Top List - NASDAQ OMX
PHLX Top Lists
| NASDAQ Top Underlyings by Price Improvement | Last update: as of Week Ending 8/27/2010 |
| Rank | Symbol | Total NOM Contracts | Contracts Available For Price Improvement | NOM Contracts Price Improved | % Improved |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AAPL | 203,948 | 108,393 | 15,967 | 14.73% |
| 2 | VXX | 11,301 | 11,301 | 8,392 | 74.26% |
| 3 | GOOG | 12,889 | 12,889 | 4,809 | 37.31% |
| 4 | POT | 42,294 | 17,197 | 2,040 | 11.86% |
| 5 | NFLX | 18,925 | 12,011 | 1,677 | 13.96% |
| 6 | SDS | 35,289 | 5,426 | 1,581 | 29.14% |
| 7 | FAZ | 46,504 | 4,822 | 1,540 | 31.94% |
| 8 | IGT | 2,045 | 2,045 | 1,522 | 74.43% |
| 9 | GS | 30,992 | 11,571 | 1,481 | 12.80% |
| 10 | BA | 8,337 | 2,587 | 1,370 | 52.96% |
| Total Contracts for All Underlyings | 2,910,635 | 468,837 | 115,176 | 24.57% | |
*A contract is considered to be price improved if it is executed at a price that is within the MPV - for example, for a non-penny pilot option that is trading at $4.00, an execution at $4.03 is considered to be price improved.
Price improvement does not include executions resulting from facilitation/solicitation.
Source: The NASDAQ Options Market
NASDAQ OMX Co-Location
NASDAQ OMX Co-Location Services offers subscribers a unique opportunity to place their own trading systems within NASDAQ OMX data centers. Through our primary data center, firms can access all five of NASDAQ's U.S. Markets.
- The NASDAQ Stock Market
- NASDAQ OMX BX
- The NASDAQ Options Market
- NASDAQ OMX PHLX
- NASDAQ OMX Futures Exchange
Close proximity to all NASDAQ OMX U.S.-based market platforms significantly reduces message latencies by as much as 4.6 milliseconds and network connection costs. Contact Kristen Pross at +1 212 401 8924 or Stacie Swanstrom at +1 301 978 8101 for more information on how your firm can benefit from Co-Location.
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