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Historical Analysis of Options and Equity Data
January 2004 to present. US Stocks, Indexes, ETFs and corporate actions.
Features
Use Livevol’s extensive data offerings for backtesting and creating blackbox algorithms. Whether it is pricing, Level II exchange discrepancies, calculations and Greeks, multi-leg strategies, interest rate or pricing arbs – Livevol Data Services can provide any and all information to support your decision engine from backtesting to production.
- Granular: 1-minute option and stock intervals with open, high, low, close, volume, bid, ask, calculations.
- Calculations: Implied Volatility, Greek, and IV Index Calculations for every interval.
- Time & Sales: Every stock and option trade from January 2004 to now.
- Accessible: Stored in text files with comma separated values, fields set up for immediate bulk load into standard databases.
- Complete: In addition to the trade and quote data, Livevol offers earnings, dividend, symbol change, and yield curve supporting data.
Every day Livevol produces ten files capturing options data for each optionable underlying and 4 files with equity data for all underlying symbols. Corporate action data is provided in unified files with data for all underlying.
| Options Data | Equity Data | Corporate Actions |
|---|---|---|
| Trades with calculations (sample) | 1-minute quotes (sample) | Splits |
| 1-minute quotes (sample) | 15-minute quotes (sample) | Symbol Changes |
| 1-minute calculations (sample) | End-of-day quotes (sample) | Mergers & Acquisitions |
| 1-minute IV indexes (sample) | ||
| 15-minute quotes (sample) | ||
| 15-minute calculations (sample) | ||
| 15-minute IV indexes (sample) | ||
| End-of-day quotes (sample) | ||
| End-of-day calculations (sample) | ||
| End-of-day IV indexes (sample) |
Field List
Option Quotes
Time, Root, Expiration, Strike, OptionType, Open, High, Low, Close, TradeVolume, BidSize, BestBid, AskSize, BestAsk, Underlying Bid, Underlying Ask, {Regional Exchange: BidSize, Bid, AskSize Ask} x[# of exchanges]
Option Calculations
Time, Root, Expiration, Strike, OptionType, Open, High, Low,Close, TradeVolume, BidSize, BestBid, AskSize, BestAsk, Underlying Bid, Underlying Ask, Implied Underlying Price, Active Underlying Price, Implied Volatility, Delta, Gamma, Theta, Vega, Rho
Option Trades
Time, SequenceNumber, Root, Expiration, Strike, OptionType, Exchange ID, TradeSize, TradePrice, TradeIV, TradeDelta, TradeConditionID, CanceledTradeConditionID,BestBid, BestAsk, UnderlyingBid,UnderlyingAsk, {Regional Exchange: BidSize, Bid, AskSize Ask} x[# of exchanges]
Option IV Index
Time, IV30, IV60, IV90, IV120, IV180, IV360, IV720, ExpirationIV1, ExpirationIV2, ExpirationIV3, ExpirationIV4, ExpirationIV5, ExpirationIV6, ExpirationIV7, ExpirationIV8, ExpirationIV9, ExpirationIV10, ExpirationIV1Date, ExpirationIV2Date, ExpirationIV3Date, ExpirationIV4Date, ExpirationIV5Date, ExpirationIV6Date, ExpirationIV7Date, ExpirationIV8Date, ExpirationIV9Date, ExpirationIV10Date
Equity Quotes
Time, Open, High, Low, Close, TradeVolume, VWAP, BestBid, BestAsk
Trades and Quotes (TAQ)
Livevol also offers the complete recorded history of equity and options tick data including an API to simulate real-time playback. Ask the Livevol team for additional information.
Calculation Methodology
Livevol applies a unified calculation methodology across both live and historical data sets to provide maximum consistency between back-testing and real-time applications. Cost of carry inputs (interest rates, dividends) are determined by a statistical regression process based upon live market information, which is reevaluated periodically. These inputs ensure accurate option model evaluation as measured by the convergence/divergence of call and put implied volatilities. The cost of carry projected from these inputs is compared against those implied by the at-the-money options from each option expiry. If the rates differ significantly—and the option spreads for this expiry are sufficiently narrow—the implied rates replace the standard inputs. This ensures that the various dividend and rate assumptions in the market place are consistently applied to the option model calculations.
Livevol calculates volatility indexes historically and in real-time for seven time frames: 30-, 60-, 90-, 120-, 180-, 360-, and 720-days. The Livevol volatility indexes are calculated using a weighted average of the implied volatilities of options that expire before and after the given time frame. As an example, for Livevol's 30-day calculation, referred to as IV30™, implied volatilities from options expiring in 15 days would be combined using linear interpolation with options expiring in 45 days to represent how the average 30-day volatility is behaving. The calculation emphasizes the implied volatility of the at-themoney options. A variety of weighting techniques help to ensure that any unusual spreads on a given option pair, or other unusual market activity, do not unduly affect the index. Options within 8 days of expiration are excluded from the weighting.
Pricing
Please use the following Historical Data Calculator to get an idea of our pricing. Feel free to "Submit Quote" to our Data Services team, and we will contact you with full details on the data and pricing. In addition, we provide a Pricing sheet at the bottom of the page.
