PHLX Options Market – Data Products
Overview
NASDAQ OMX PHLX (PHLX) operates an electronic and hybrid floor-based trading system to trade options. The PHLX Options Market offers a traditional allocation model for orders. The tradition of innovation that has characterized the PHLX since it’s inception in 1790 continues to carry on as the Exchange serves as a leader in technology and responds to the ever-changing needs of the investment community as a part of NASDAQ OMX.
To facilitate trading on its options market, NASDAQ OMX PHLX has developed proprietary data feed products that are designed to promote full market transparency with minimal latencies.
Benefits & Features
PHLX has developed the following proprietary options data products which are now available:
- PHLX Depth of Market (PHLX Depth) is designed to provide aggregate order book and last sale data from the PHLX Options Market in an easy-to-display format. Similar to NASDAQ TotalView-Aggregated feed, PHLX Depth summarizes the order interest at each price level in the PHLX system.
- Top of PHLX Options (TOPO) is designed to provide Best Bid and Offer (BBO) and last sale information directly to PHLX Options Market participant firms that subscribe to the data feed.
- TOPO Plus Orders is designed to provide Best Bid and Offer (BBO) and last sale information Plus the state of single and complex orders on the PHLX order book to firms on a real-time basis. TOPO Plus Orders provides access to both the TOPO data feed and the PHLX Orders data feed.
- Historical PHLX Orders provides a historical record of the simple and complex order message data from the TOPO Plus Orders data product. Subscribers to this historical product may download the Historical PHLX Orders daily message logs on a T+1 basis from a secure FTP server. Historical PHLX Orders is available as eight separate files each day, four for simple orders and four for complex orders. The data originates from the PHLX Orders data feed and therefore, no quote data is included.
- PHLX Options Trade Outline is designed to provide proprietary electronic NASDAQ OMX PHLX (PHLX) trade data to subscribers. PHOTO is available as either an End-of-Day or Intra-Day file and subscribers may access the files from a secured FTP server. Primary fields in both files include aggregate trade quantity and trade volume for each customer origin type of the trade. Fields are further broken down by opening buy, closing buy, opening sell and closing sell, all for every option series listed and traded on PHLX in which an electronic trade occurred during the trading day.
Access Options
Trading firms and market data vendors may create a real-time display by processing direct NASDAQ OMX data feed products. For detailed technical documentation for NASDAQ OMX direct products, please refer to the Market Data technical specifications page.
Individual investors and traders may access real-time data through a number of authorized NASDAQ OMX market data distributors. Refer to the Market Data Vendors page for a complete list of companies.
Pricing
This product is subject to the following distributor fees:
| PHLX Depth of Market | ||
|---|---|---|
| Entitlement Name | Security Coverage | Monthly Fee |
| Distributor Fees | ||
| PHLX Depth of Market | NASDAQ OMX PHLX Issues | Internal: $4,000 External: $4,500 |
| PHLX Orders | ||
|---|---|---|
| Entitlement Name | Security Coverage | Monthly Fee |
| Distributor Fees | ||
| PHLX Orders | NASDAQ OMX PHLX Issues | Internal: $3,000 External: $3,500 |
| Top of PHLX Options (TOPO) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Entitlement Name | Security Coverage | Monthly Fee |
| Distributor Fees | ||
| Top of PHLX Options (TOPO) | NASDAQ OMX PHLX Issues | Internal: $2,000 External: $2,500 |
| Managed Data Solution Administration Fee* | ||
| PHLX Managed Data Solution Subscriber Fee | ||
*For the right to offer Managed Data Solutions to client organizations
| TOPO Plus PHLX Orders | ||
|---|---|---|
| Entitlement Name | Security Coverage | Monthly Fee |
| Distributor Fees | ||
| TOPO Plus PHLX Orders | NASDAQ OMX PHLX Issues | Internal: $4,000 External: $5,000 |
| Historical PHLX Orders* | ||
|---|---|---|
| Entitlement Name | Monthly Fee | |
| Historical PHLX Orders Distributor Fee |
$500 | |
| PHLX Options Trade Outline (PHOTO) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Entitlement Name | Security Coverage | Monthly Fee |
| Distributor Fees | ||
| PHLX Options Trade Outline (PHOTO) | NASDAQ OMX PHLX Issues | Internal Distribution: End-of-Day: $500 Intra-Day: $1,500 Historical End-of-Day: $400 Historical Intra-Day: $750 |
For NASDAQ OMX real-time data feed products, the distributor fees are assessed on subscribers that receive NASDAQ OMX information in a data feed format. This product is also covered by NASDAQ OMX annual administration fee(s). Refer to NASDAQ OMX Data Policies document for details.
Agreements & Forms
To initiate this data on a data feed, firms must submit the appropriate documentation and receive prior approval from NASDAQ OMX:
- Data Feed Request Form - Required for all firms
- NASDAQ OMX Global Data Agreement - Required for all firms prior to initiation of the first NASDAQ OMX data service only
- System Application - Required for firms only if the data will be displayed or used in a system that is not yet approved by NASDAQ OMX
For the complete list of NASDAQ OMX and UTP market data agreements and forms, please refer to the NASDAQ OMX Global Data Products Agreements and Forms page.
To order this data on a stand-alone terminal/controlled display product, end users or end-user firms should contact their market data vendor for the appropriate agreements and forms.
Product News & Updates
- Data News #2010-21: NASDAQ OMX Launches the Top of PHLX Options (TOPO) Data Product
- Data News #2010-20: NASDAQ OMX Introduces the PHLX Options Trade Outline (PHOTO) Data Product Effective September 1, 2010
- Data Technical News #2009-42: NASDAQ OMX launches a Full PHLX Limit Order Book Feed for the TOPO Plus Orders Data Product
- Data Technical News #2009-31: NASDAQ OMX Launches the Top of PHLX Options (TOPO) Data Product
How to Purchase
- at +1 301 978 5307





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