Say I have an option expiring on Friday. I sell on Tues but I'm curious where it ended up. It's vaporized off my trading app because I sold it. Where can I find out where it ended up?
Tracking options after you sell them.
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Posted by Antinetdotcom
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Where did you buy it from?
What do you mean “where it ended up”? Like who the counter party is in the transaction? Most likely a market maker. Then it just becomes a number in their ledger and you cannot follow any subsequent transactions, as all options contracts of the same strike and expiry are fungible.
Do you mean transaction history?
Same way you track stocks after you sell them
You want to track the value of it over time? Which broker do you use?
This has to be a troll post…
You go and look at the same option with the same expiration and see what it’s current price is. I don’t think you should be trading op…
Just because you sold it the ticker symbol doesn’t go away. All the ways you found it to trade in the first place still work.
I completely understand your question and I have the same question! OP is asking how could you see what the result of your options contract would have been a day later or at a different time all together! Once you sell it, it clears itself off the platform. Is there a “calculator” for lack of better term
In Thinkorswim you can save an option as a symbol to track its price over time.
Add it to your watchlist. I did that and see how much I missed out all the time. Also a good way to do live paper trading