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Advance Charts

Visualize all our datasets with powerful charts. From options open interest to normalized historical volatility surfaces and many more, we are able to provide you with invaluable information to help you plan your trades in the best possible conditions.

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Options & Probability calculators

Let us help you use the intelligence of the market to your advantage with our advanced calculators. Want to understand how the parameters of a call or a put will change a the inputs change, the options calculator has all the information you need! Want to calculate the probability of the market hitting a certain level or even closing below a specified level by a certain date pay a quick visit to our probability calculator.

Intraday & Historical Volatility

Using our proprietary IV-Index (IVX) we help you visualize how implied volatility evolves during the trading session for all the ETFs, Indices and Stocks available.

Whether it is because you want to optimize your trade execution, to find new entry points for directional trading or simply to follow the volatility market, seeing changes in real time during the day can help you gain an edge.

Looking for long time series on volatility? We've got you covered with data going back more than 10 years on multiple underliers.

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Best in Class Options Chain with Greeks

Dig into our professional option chain and stand ready to trade.

With the IVolLive option chain, you will get an in depth understanding of volatility for each expiration and strike including current levels and changes. Use the Greeks to prepare your trades.

Intraday price action and IV analytics for every options contract

Day traders, looking to evaluate opportunities around intraday option trades will find this tool incredibly useful to perform quick visual backtests. You can rapidly backtest ideas by visualizing an option contract's price and IV action throughout the day with minute-by-minute data, comparing your hypotheses about options prices through the day against empirical data. For the first time, take a data-driven approach to intraday strategies that were once only available to the best resourced equity derivatives desks.

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A powerful Options Scanner

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Want to search for the most attractive strategies available? With our scanners, set the criteria and retrieve the best available trades in real-time based on your specific objective.

Whether you are looking for trades with the highest probability of making a profit, or those offering the best Risk/Reward ratio, we have got you covered.

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Trusted by the World's Top Investment Banks

For more than 20 years, we have been providing derivatives market leaders with options and futures data.

Our team of data scientists apply powerful, refined, and well-tested calculations to millions of financial instruments every day, creating big data insights used across the industry to create options strategies, find actionable options contracts, and analyze existing positions.

Our historical options data is an industry leader in financial data, providing consistent, accurate insights you won't find elsewhere. IVolLive allows you to access the same present and historical options data used by over half of the top 50 Investment Banks and over half of the top 30 derivatives funds to build strategies which can compete in the 21st century.

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IVolLive Platform

Your groups, your stocks, your portfolios—all in one place. Create groups of stocks you're interested in, choose the data columns you need, and let IVolLive create a grid for your easy interpretation and comparison of data. With over 100 data fields to choose from, the Stock Monitor brings big data analytics to the masses. A rare feature from data vendors, the Stock Monitor allows you to download the grid you created in CSV form for import into Excel, or your preferred data platform, for additional analysis.

Options Chain

Realtime

The original options chain for options traders, our popular Advanced Options service has provided contract level IV data and charts to traders for over 15 years. In IVolLive, we've redesigned our Options Chain to fit more data into less space, while still ensuring easy interpretation through a simple and modern design. We've added data fields and gave you the power to choose columns to create an options chain with the data you need, and nothing more. As always, you can download the full options chain for additional analysis or for your records. Our options chain also offers a number of useful charts: time skew, strike skew, delta charts, and more!

IVX Monitor

Realtime

If you want to quickly check implied volatility for any stock or index, the IVX Monitor is for you. Available on our homepage for a limited number of the most popular names, the IVX Monitor gets a full revamp and incorporation into our IVolLive platform. Now you can see the IVX chart for any name easily in our Stock Monitor, just click on the chart icon next to any ticker and the IVX chart will immediately pop up!

Probability Calculator

Realtime

Originally designed in collaboration with Fidelity and TradeKings (now Ally Investments), our original Probability Calculator disrupted the options scene for retail traders. No longer was professional volatility-based forecasting limited to professional investors. All you had to do was select a two target prices and our calculator would return the probability with which the contract was likely to touch those targets before expiration as well as the probability with which the contract was likely to end above, between, and below your two target prices. Now, we've adjusted our methodology slightly as more data has become available, and added new fields: the probability of touching for either target, neither target, and both targets. And of course, we've made the calculator more compact, while still easy on the eyes for all traders.

Options Calculator

Realtime

Options Calculator provides tools only available for professionals - fair values and Greeks of any option using our volatility data and prices. You can customize all the input parameters (option style, price of the underlying instrument, strike, expiration, implied volatility, interest rate and dividends data) or use the IVolatility.com database to populate all those fields for you! The Calculator can also be used to calculate implied volatility for a specific option - the option price is a parameter in this case.

Contract Viewer

Realtime

Intraday price action and IV analytics for every options contract. Day traders, looking to evaluate opportunities around intraday option trades will find this tool incredibly useful to perform quick visual backtests. You can rapidly backtest ideas by visualizing an option contract's price and IV action throughout the day with minute-by-minute data, comparing your hypotheses about options prices through the day against empirical data. For the first time, take a data-driven approach to intraday strategies that were once only available to the best resourced equity derivatives desks.

Charts

Realtime

Visualize all our datasets with powerful charts. From options open interest to normalized historical volatility surfaces and many more, we are able to provide you with invaluable information to help you plan your trades in the best possible conditions.

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Sentiment Analyzer

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The IVolatility.com Underlying Sentiment Service is a valuable tool for stock trend analysis. It is based on a combination of historical, technical, options-derived, and fundamental data. It is a service that is equally useful for both stock traders and options traders, both sophisticated and newcomers alike. You can:

  • Scan the IVolatility.com database for the top Bullish / Bearish stocks
  • Scan the IVolatility.com database for the most Volatile / Quiet stocks
  • Combine the scans above!
  • Limit the instruments universe to a certain range by price, trading volume, market capitalization, option volume&etc.
  • Create your own custom ranking criterion!
  • Add newly identified stocks to your Favorite group and use it in other scanners (such as our Spread Scanner, Covered Call scanner etc).

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Spread Scanner

Realtime

An incredibly powerful tool, our Spread Scanner allows you to scan for a slew of various spreads and strategies. Choose your strategy from the strategy window, select your filters from the options and underlying tabs, indicate your preferred scanning criteria (minimal risk, maximum reward, best probability of profit, etc.) and scan the entire options universe for trades that fit the bill. For traders making complex trades and requiring only the best data, this tool is king. Choose from dozens of filters from underlying market cap to contract bid-ask spread to volatility smile limitations, and find the perfect trade for your strategy. You can save trades to your monitor and conduct analysis in the pocket. Select a trade and the Spread Scanner will show you how the trade and its payoff change in different scenarios. You can also see different price bands and graphs for the trade. This tool is more complex than our other tools, so we recommend checking out our guide to fully unlock the Spread Scanner's capabilities.

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PnL Calculator

Delayed

Our PnL calculator is similar to other Profit and Loss calculators but with more powerful functionality. Linked to our live database, see how your P/L changes in real time. A key feature of our PnL calculator is support for limitless legs. While other P/L calculators only allow you to select two, three, or four legs, our PnL Calculator supports infinite legs. Another powerful function of the PnL Calculator is that it gives you the ability to conduct what-if analysis in two scenarios: time to expiry going to zero, and changes in IV. Simply use the slider to adjust the values and the PnL calculator will show you how your profit and loss change in different scenarios.

include 80$/month credit

Our data download service allows you to quickly and easily download futures and options data from the extensive, 20-year IVolatility.com database. Our datasets include:

  • NBBO (Options prices, volumes, and OI)
  • RawIV (Everything in NBBO plus IV, HV, and Greeks data)
  • IV Index (Weighted ATM measure of a stocks future volatility estimated for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9 months and 1, 2, 3 years)
  • IV Surface (Surface normalized by moneyness and maturity built off of IV using interpolation)
  • Historical Volatility (Realized volatility data)
  • Underlying prices (Daily OHLC with volume)scenarios.

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$60/month

Billed monthly, individual use

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IVolLive Platform

Stock Monitor

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Your groups, your stocks, your portfolios—all in one place. Create groups of stocks you're interested in, choose the data columns you need, and let IVolLive create a grid for your easy interpretation and comparison of data. With over 100 data fields to choose from, the Stock Monitor brings big data analytics to the masses. A rare feature from data vendors, the Stock Monitor allows you to download the grid you created in CSV form for import into Excel, or your preferred data platform, for additional analysis.

Options Chain

Delayed

The original options chain for options traders, our popular Advanced Options service has provided contract level IV data and charts to traders for over 15 years. In IVolLive, we've redesigned our Options Chain to fit more data into less space, while still ensuring easy interpretation through a simple and modern design. We've added data fields and gave you the power to choose columns to create an options chain with the data you need, and nothing more. As always, you can download the full options chain for additional analysis or for your records. Our options chain also offers a number of useful charts: time skew, strike skew, delta charts, and more!

IVX Monitor

Delayed

If you want to quickly check implied volatility for any stock or index, the IVX Monitor is for you. Available on our homepage for a limited number of the most popular names, the IVX Monitor gets a full revamp and incorporation into our IVolLive platform. Now you can see the IVX chart for any name easily in our Stock Monitor, just click on the chart icon next to any ticker and the IVX chart will immediately pop up!

Probability Calculator

Delayed

Originally designed in collaboration with Fidelity and TradeKings (now Ally Investments), our original Probability Calculator disrupted the options scene for retail traders. No longer was professional volatility-based forecasting limited to professional investors. All you had to do was select a two target prices and our calculator would return the probability with which the contract was likely to touch those targets before expiration as well as the probability with which the contract was likely to end above, between, and below your two target prices. Now, we've adjusted our methodology slightly as more data has become available, and added new fields: the probability of touching for either target, neither target, and both targets. And of course, we've made the calculator more compact, while still easy on the eyes for all traders.

Options Calculator

Delayed

Options Calculator provides tools only available for professionals - fair values and Greeks of any option using our volatility data and prices. You can customize all the input parameters (option style, price of the underlying instrument, strike, expiration, implied volatility, interest rate and dividends data) or use the IVolatility.com database to populate all those fields for you! The Calculator can also be used to calculate implied volatility for a specific option - the option price is a parameter in this case.

Contract Viewer

Delayed

Intraday price action and IV analytics for every options contract. Day traders, looking to evaluate opportunities around intraday option trades will find this tool incredibly useful to perform quick visual backtests. You can rapidly backtest ideas by visualizing an option contract's price and IV action throughout the day with minute-by-minute data, comparing your hypotheses about options prices through the day against empirical data. For the first time, take a data-driven approach to intraday strategies that were once only available to the best resourced equity derivatives desks.

Charts

Delayed

Visualize all our datasets with powerful charts. From options open interest to normalized historical volatility surfaces and many more, we are able to provide you with invaluable information to help you plan your trades in the best possible conditions.

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Sentiment Analyzer

EOD

The IVolatility.com Underlying Sentiment Service is a valuable tool for stock trend analysis. It is based on a combination of historical, technical, options-derived, and fundamental data. It is a service that is equally useful for both stock traders and options traders, both sophisticated and newcomers alike. You can:

  • Scan the IVolatility.com database for the top Bullish / Bearish stocks
  • Scan the IVolatility.com database for the most Volatile / Quiet stocks
  • Combine the scans above!
  • Limit the instruments universe to a certain range by price, trading volume, market capitalization, option volume&etc.
  • Create your own custom ranking criterion!
  • Add newly identified stocks to your Favorite group and use it in other scanners (such as our Spread Scanner, Covered Call scanner etc).

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Spread Scanner

Delayed

An incredibly powerful tool, our Spread Scanner allows you to scan for a slew of various spreads and strategies. Choose your strategy from the strategy window, select your filters from the options and underlying tabs, indicate your preferred scanning criteria (minimal risk, maximum reward, best probability of profit, etc.) and scan the entire options universe for trades that fit the bill. For traders making complex trades and requiring only the best data, this tool is king. Choose from dozens of filters from underlying market cap to contract bid-ask spread to volatility smile limitations, and find the perfect trade for your strategy. You can save trades to your monitor and conduct analysis in the pocket. Select a trade and the Spread Scanner will show you how the trade and its payoff change in different scenarios. You can also see different price bands and graphs for the trade. This tool is more complex than our other tools, so we recommend checking out our guide to fully unlock the Spread Scanner's capabilities.

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PnL Calculator

Delayed

Our PnL calculator is similar to other Profit and Loss calculators but with more powerful functionality. Linked to our live database, see how your P/L changes in real time. A key feature of our PnL calculator is support for limitless legs. While other P/L calculators only allow you to select two, three, or four legs, our PnL Calculator supports infinite legs. Another powerful function of the PnL Calculator is that it gives you the ability to conduct what-if analysis in two scenarios: time to expiry going to zero, and changes in IV. Simply use the slider to adjust the values and the PnL calculator will show you how your profit and loss change in different scenarios.

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Data Download

EOD

include 25$/month credit

Our data download service allows you to quickly and easily download futures and options data from the extensive, 20-year IVolatility.com database. Our datasets include:

  • NBBO (Options prices, volumes, and OI)
  • RawIV (Everything in NBBO plus IV, HV, and Greeks data)
  • IV Index (Weighted ATM measure of a stocks future volatility estimated for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9 months and 1, 2, 3 years)
  • IV Surface (Surface normalized by moneyness and maturity built off of IV using interpolation)
  • Historical Volatility (Realized volatility data)
  • Underlying prices (Daily OHLC with volume)scenarios.

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IVolLive Platform

Futures Monitor

EOD

Access our powerful database with more than 50 fields ranging from Open Interest to Implied Volatility and more and compare those metrics across multiple Futures in one place. Sort underliers by your favorite indicator and find the best opportunities.

Futures Options Chain

EOD

Our Futures option chain provides you with unmatched insight about your futures trades. Using a Futures specific pricing model, we help you understand the volatility for each expiration and strike with current levels and changes. Our highly accurate Greeks help you prepare.

Probability Calculator

EOD

Originally designed in collaboration with Fidelity and TradeKings (now Ally Investments), our original Probability Calculator disrupted the options scene for retail traders. No longer was professional volatility-based forecasting limited to professional investors. All you had to do was select a two target prices and our calculator would return the probability with which the contract was likely to touch those targets before expiration as well as the probability with which the contract was likely to end above, between, and below your two target prices. Now, we've adjusted our methodology slightly as more data has become available, and added new fields: the probability of touching for either target, neither target, and both targets. And of course, we've made the calculator more compact, while still easy on the eyes for all traders.

Options Calculator

EOD

Options Calculator provides tools only available for professionals - fair values and Greeks of any option using our volatility data and prices. You can customize all the input parameters (option style, price of the underlying instrument, strike, expiration, implied volatility, interest rate and dividends data) or use the IVolatility.com database to populate all those fields for you! The Calculator can also be used to calculate implied volatility for a specific option - the option price is a parameter in this case.

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Data Download

EOD

include 5$/month credit

Our data download service allows you to quickly and easily download futures and options data from the extensive, 20-year IVolatility.com database. Our datasets include:

  • NBBO (Options prices, volumes, and OI)
  • RawIV (Everything in NBBO plus IV, HV, and Greeks data)
  • IV Index (Weighted ATM measure of a stocks future volatility estimated for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9 months and 1, 2, 3 years)
  • IV Surface (Surface normalized by moneyness and maturity built off of IV using interpolation)
  • Historical Volatility (Realized volatility data)
  • Underlying prices (Daily OHLC with volume)scenarios.

Try 1 week free

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