Options Chain
Also called: option chain, options table
An options chain is the grid of every listed option on one underlying, laid out by strike and expiry. Reading it well means looking past price: the bid-ask spread tells you the real cost of trading, open interest tells you where the market is positioned, and the implied volatility column shows the skew — puts almost always priced above equidistant calls, because crashes are faster than rallies.
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