Options Calculator Toolbar

The Options Calculator toolbar includes these buttons:

 

Button

Description

<<>> 

<< 

>> 

Right-click the <<>> button to move forward to month after the one currently displayed.

Once you reach the last available month, the button then moves you back. The direction is indicated by the << button.

Click the << button to move back to the month before the one currently displayed.

Once you reach the first available month, the button again moves you forward. The direction is indicated by the >> button.

Actuals

Click to remove what ifs.

Calls

Click to change display from puts to calls.

FullScr

Click to display only the strategy graph, hiding the other window components.

Right- click to hide the strategy graph, the strategy selection box, the underlying information and the display properties tabs, leaving only the table tabs displayed.

Futures

Click to change to the display to a futures view from FX OTC.

FX OTC

Click to view OTC Foreign Exchange contracts.

The FX OTC Options Calculator allows users to evaluate several types of OTC cross currency options. Currently users can evaluate 4 types of options: Vanilla OTC Spot, Exotic Vanilla Barrier, Exotic Binary AON and Exotic Lookback.

To use the FX OTC Options Calculator, you must specify: model, underlying asset price, strike price, interest rate, volatility, days until expiration, and model parameters.

Options Calculator evaluates the theoretical value or implied volatility (if options price was specified) and Greeks for the virtual contract.

Load

Click to open the Load Strategy window.

Pause

Options data is updated continuously during trading hours, which could result in a continuously changing display in an active market.

Click to pause data updates and value recalculations.

Right-click to update data and rate.

Prefs

Click to open options preferences.

Puts

Click to change display from calls to puts.

Rescale

Click to return vertical and horizontal scales to their default sizes. This button is active only when the scale has been changed from the default. The scales are changed by dragging.

Save

Click to save the current view.

Settle

Click to view options data based on the most recent settlement price rather than the most recent tick data.