Comments on: Source for Stock Option Prices

Question: Source for Stock Option Prices

bright77blue — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 14:34:30 -0800

Stock Options data source needed. I would like to poll a site via API to get option prices on about 30 stocks - about 20 times a day. The data does NOT have to be real time - 15 to 20 min delay is fine. I can go to yahoo finance or Bigcharts, but would like the data imported into my local MySql database. A free or inexpensive (less than $20 per month) would be great. Thx!

By: bsdfish

bsdfish — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:51:35 -0800

Interactive Brokers has an API that's pretty decent for these kinds of things and it costs $10/month (waived if you trade enough). It also has API access to historical quotes for options, so instead of checking 20 times a day, you could get the historical quotes once a day.

By: ElDiabloConQueso

ElDiabloConQueso — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 17:09:40 -0800

I haven't dug deeply into it, but it appears that Google's Finance API would probably provide what you're looking for at no charge.

http://code.google.com/apis/finance/

By: lowlife

lowlife — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 17:30:48 -0800

Not sure if they include the stuff you're looking for, but opentick has some good prices, including 'free'.

By: tkolar

tkolar — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 19:02:36 -0800

Interactive Brokers is wonderful for this.

A previous question on the topic.