Options Price Reporting Authority
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The Options Price Reporting Authority (OPRA) oversees the Securities Information Processor (SIP) that provides last sale information and current options quotations from a committee of participant exchanges. In turn, this committee is designated as the Options Price Reporting Authority.[1]
OPRA is a national market system plan that governs the process by which options market data are collected from participant exchanges, consolidated, and disseminated.
Participant exchanges
Current OPRA participants include:
- NYSE Amex Equities (AMEX)
- Boston Options Exchange (BOX)
- Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE)
- Miami International Holdings (EMERALD)
- Nasdaq, Inc.(GEMX)
- Nasdaq, Inc.(ISE)
- Nasdaq, Inc.(MRX)
- Miami International Holdings (MIAX)
- NYSE (ARCA)
- Miami International Holdings (PEARL)
- Nasdaq, Inc.(NASD)
- Nasdaq, Inc.(BX)
- Chicago Board Options Exchange (C2)
- Nasdaq Philadelphia Stock Exchange (PHLX)
- Chicago Board Options Exchange (BATS)
Acquisition and distribution of market data
The Securities Industry Automation Corporation (SIAC) administers the Securities Information Processor (SIP) for OPRA. The SIP gathers the last sale and quote information from each of the participant exchanges. SIAC then consolidates and disseminates that data to approved vendors.
Available data
The OPRA data feed provides:
- Trades: last sale reports for completed securities transactions
- Quotes: bids and offers for options
Technology infrastructure
SIAC is responsible for the OPRA systems and networks. CBOE serves as the OPRA administrator.
Messages per second
A significant gauge of the level of options market data is messages per second (MPS). Messages per second is just that - the number of messages (i.e., options trade and quote data) reported to OPRA by the options exchanges during any given second of a trading day.
Data volume has increased dramatically since the early 1990s, as illustrated in the following table.[2][3][4]
| Date | Peak MPS |
|---|---|
| 1992 | 100 |
| 1995 | 500 |
| 1998 | 1,500 |
| July 2000 | 4,000 |
| September 2005 | 83,339 |
| July 2007 | 573,000 |
| January 2008 | 701,000 (projected) |
| July 2008 | 907,000 (projected) |
| 25 March 2015 11:31 | 10,244,894 (1 sec peak) |
| 20th Nov 2015 11:00 | 22,462,900 (10mS peak) |
Commentators suggest that there are three underlying causes of the increase:
- Penny Pricing: In early February 2007, the options industry started switching its minimum price increment from $0.05 (nickels) to $0.01 (pennies). Because options prices are automatically updated as soon as the underlying stock price changes, the potential existed to update at five times as many price points.[3]
- Dollar Strikes: The standard stock option strike prices are in increments of $2.50 at and below $25, and in $5.00 increments for strikes above $25. A Dollar Strike Program would potentially increase the number of available options contracts by five times.[5]
- Reg NMS[6]
The OPRA MPS data rates are more than 60 times those seen in the equities market,[3] and options data represents well over 75% of all market data.[2]
See also
References
- ^ Options Price Reporting Authority. "Options Price Reporting Authority". Archived from the original on 2007-12-22.
- ^ a b Reuters America LLC (2004-04-09). "Release No. 34-49175; File No. SR-07-04; Concept Release: Competitive Developments in the Options Markets" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2004-11-08. Retrieved 2004-04-09.
{{cite web}}:|author=has generic name (help) - ^ a b c Daniel Safarik (2007-03-22). "The Options Penny Pilot Has Been Successful So Far". Archived from the original on 2007-08-23. Retrieved 2007-03-22.
- ^ Joe Corrigan (2007-03-22). "Updated Traffic Projections" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2007-10-05. Retrieved 2007-07-10.
- ^ American Stock Exchange (2007-06-08). "Penny Quoting Pilot Program Report" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2007-07-10. Retrieved 2007-06-08.
- ^ Ivy Schmerken (2007-08-27). "Skyrocketing Market Data Message Rates Leading Trading Firms to Consider Hardware Acceleration". Archived from the original on 2007-10-18. Retrieved 2007-08-27.