Available for Barchart Premier Members, the Options Overview History page provides important summary options statistics to provide a forward looking indication of investors' sentiment, going back up to two years.
Barchart Premier Members can view and download daily historical options overview data for U.S. and Canadian symbols, including Implied Volatility, IV Change, Rank and Percentile. Analyze the daily statistics in total options volume, open interest, and ratios to help decipher historical moves in a symbol's options.
- Implied Volatility: The average implied volatility (IV) of the nearest monthly options contract that is 30-days out or more.
IV is a forward looking prediction of the likelihood of price change of the underlying asset, with a higher IV signifying that the market expects significant price movement, and a lower IV signifying the market expects the underlying asset price to remain within the current trading range.
IV is calculated based on the last price for today, if no last then the midpoint between the bid/ask assuming it exists for today. Implied volatility is calculated using the Binomial model.
- 1-Day Implied Volatility Change: The underlying asset's change in implied volatility for the current trading session.
- IV Rank: The current IV compared to the highest and lowest values over the past 1-year. If IV Rank is 100% this means the IV is at its highest level over the past 1-year, and can signify significant price movement.
- IV Percentile: The percentage of days with IV closing below the current IV value over the prior 1-year. A high IV Percentile means the current IV is at a higher level than for most of the past year. This would occur after a period of significant price movement, and a high IV Percentile can often predict a coming market reversal in price.
- Put/Call Vol Ratio: The total Put/Call volume ratio for all option contracts (across all expiration dates). A high put/call ratio can signify the market is oversold as more traders are buying puts rather than calls, and a low put/call ratio can signify the market is overbought as more traders are buying calls rather than puts.
- Options Volume: The total volume for all option contracts (across all expiration dates).
- Put/Call OI Ratio: The put/call open interest ratio for all options contracts (across all expiration dates).
- Total Open Interest: The total open interest for all option contracts (across all expiration dates).
The following fields are available within the download only.
- Call Volume: The total volume for all option call contracts (across all expiration dates) traded during the session.
- Put Volume: The total volume for all option put contracts (across all expiration dates) traded during the session.
- Call Open Interest: The total open interest for all call option contracts (across all expiration dates).
- Put Open Interest: The total open interest for all put option contracts (across all expiration dates).
Download
Download is a free tool available to Site Members. This tool will download a .csv file for the View being displayed.
Free members are limited to 1 site download per day. Barchart Plus Members have 10 downloads per day, while Barchart Premier Members may download up to 250 .csv files per day.
Should you require more than 250 downloads per day, you would be best suited with our Barchart for Excel add-in. Free Trial Barchart for Excel
Data Updates
For pages showing Intraday views, we use the current session's data with new price data appear on the page as indicated by a "flash." Stocks: 15 minute delay (Cboe BZX data for U.S. equities is real-time), ET. Volume reflects consolidated markets. Futures and Forex: 10 or 15 minute delay, CT.
The list of symbols included on the page is updated every 10 minutes throughout the trading day. However, new stocks are not automatically added to or re-ranked on the page until the site performs its 10-minute update.
For reference, we include the date and timestamp of when the list was last updated at the top right of the page.
Page Sort
Pages are initially sorted in a specific order (depending on the data presented). You can re-sort the page by clicking on any of the column headings in the table.
Views
Most data tables can be analyzed using "Views." A View simply presents the symbols on the page with a different set of columns. Site members can also display the page using Custom Views.
Each View has a "Links" column on the far right to access a symbol's Quote Overview, Chart, Options Quotes (when available), Barchart Opinion, and Technical Analysis page. Standard Views found throughout the site include:
- Main View: Symbol, Name, Last Price, Change, %Change, High, Low, Volume, and Time of Last Trade.
- Technical View: Symbol, Name, Last Price, Today's Opinion, 14-Day Relative Strength, 20-Day Average Volume, 52-Week High, 52-Week % From High, 52-Week Low, and 52-Week % From Low.
- Performance View: Symbol, Name, Last Price, Weighted Alpha, 5-Day %Change, 1-Month %Change, 3-Month %Change, 52-Week %Change, YTD %Change.
- Moving Averages View: Symbol, Name, Last Price, 20-Day Moving Average, % From 20-Day Moving Average, 50-Day Moving Average, % From 50-Day Moving Average, 100-Day Moving Average, % From 100-Day Moving Average, 200-Day Moving Average, % From 200-Day Moving Average.
- Fundamental View: Available only on equity pages, this view shows Symbol, Name, Market Cap, P/E Ratio (trailing 12 months). Earnings Per Share (trailing 12 months), Net Income (Annual), Beta, Dividend Forward (Annual), Dividend Yield Forward (Annual), and Latest Earnings Date.
Note: For all markets except U.S. equities, fundamental data is not licensed for downloading. Your .csv file will show "N/L" for "not licensed" when downloading from a Canadian, UK, Australian, or European stocks page. - Mini-Chart View: Available for Barchart Plus and Premier Members, this view displays 12 small charts per page for the symbols shown in the data table. You may change the bar type and time frame for the Mini-Charts as you scroll through the page. The default settings for Mini-Charts are found in your Site Preferences, under "Overview Charts".
- Pre-Post Market View: Available for Barchart Plus and Premier Members, this view will show any pre- or post-market price activity for U.S. equities only.
Learn more about Custom Views here.
View Symbol More Data (+)
Unique to Barchart.com, data tables contain an option that allows you to see more data for the symbol without leaving the page. Click the "+" icon in the first column (on the left) to view more data for the selected symbol. Scroll through widgets of the different content available for the symbol. Click on any of the widgets to go to the full page. The "More Data" widgets are also available from the Links column of the right side of the data table.
Flipcharts
Also unique to Barchart, Flipcharts allow you to scroll through all the symbols on the table in a chart view. While viewing Flipcharts, you can apply a custom chart template, further customizing the way you can analyze the symbols.
Flipcharts are a free tool available to Site Members. Learn more about it here.
Download
Download is a free tool available to Site Members. This tool will download a .csv file for the View being displayed. For dynamically-generated tables (such as a Stock or ETF Screener) where you see more than 1000 rows of data, the download will be limited to only the first 5000 records on the table. For other static pages (such as the Russell 3000 Components list) all rows will be downloaded.
Free members are limited to 1 site download per day. Barchart Plus Members have 10 downloads per day, while Barchart Premier Members may download up to 250 .csv files per day.
Note: Due to licensing restrictions, Canadian fundamental data cannot be downloaded from Barchart.com. You will see "N/L" in a downloaded column when this is the case. Fundamental data for US equities is also limited to 15 fields per download request.
Should you require more than 250 downloads per day, you would be best suited with our Barchart for Excel add-in. Free Trial Barchart for Excel
New Highs
This widget shows the number of times this symbol reached a new high price for specific periods, from the past 5-Days to the past 20-Years.
For each period, the "Percent From Last" column shows you where the current price is in relationship to the High price for that period. When negative, the current price is that much lower than the highest price reported for the period. When positive, the current price is that much higher than the highest price from that period.
New Lows
This widget shows the number of times this symbol reached a new low price for specific periods, from the past 5-Days to the past 20-Years.
For each period, the "Percent From Last" column shows you where the current price is in relationship to the Low price for that period. When positive, the current price is that much higher than the lowest price from that period. When negative, the current price is that much lower than the lowest price reported for the period.
52-Week Key Points
View, at a glance, the 52-Week High and Low for a symbol, along with the 61.8%, 50%, and 38.2% Fibonacci levels. These figures correspond to the information presents on the Trader's Cheat Sheet page.
