Option Montage

Home / Components / Option Montage


The Option Montage component offers traders a complete view of data and option classes for a specific underlying. Begin by entering a symbol in to the symbol selection box.

There are two sections in the Option Montage component: the underlying and option. The symbol that you select will yield specific underlying data and several months of options. Right clicking on any bid or offer will prompt the user to buy, sell, or view regional quotes. Clicking on a position will do the same thing but it will also calculate a closing position for the user.

Collapse Option Month - click to learn more Column #2 Configure - click to learn more Column #1 Configure - click to learn more Spread Quotes - click to learn more Exchange Selection - click to learn more Strike Selection - click to learn more Order Shortcuts - click to learn more Collapse Underlying - click to learn more View Model - click to learn more Question Mark / Pound Symbol - click to learn more Window Details - click to learn more Component Launch Menu- click to learn more Collapse Component - click to learn more

Use your mouse to rollover the screenshot above and click on one of the  blue dots to learn more about the different tools and icons in thinkpipes.






Collapse Component

The Collapse Component button will shrink the component vertically. It does not remove the component from your screen layout.




Collapse Option Month

The Collapse Option Month text will expand or collapse the options for that month.




Collpase Underlying

The Collapse Underlying button will hide the Underlying section of the Option Montage Component.




Column Configure

These two slection boxes let users choose from the 31 types of information displayed in the two outside columns of the Options section. The center column will always be strikes, whether it is a single strike or strikes listed in a spread. The two columns directly to the right and to the left will always be position, the left will be calls and the right will be puts. Moving out to the left and the right the next columns will be bid and offer.




Component Launch Menu Button

The Component Launch Menu button lets you choose to detach, detach copy, close or substitute one component for another in the same location in your screen layout.




Exchange Selection

The Exchange selection menu allows the user to choose to view quotes from one particular exchange or to view a composite. The composite will list the best bid and offer from all the exchanges for that particular strike.




Order Shortcuts

Clicking on the order shortcuts button will give the user a choice to buy, sell, or view regional quotes, time and sales, or chart components.




Question Mark / Pound Symbol

The question mark next to the account drop down, prompts an account look up tool. This allows the user easy access to the accounts if the specific number is not recognized. Clicking on the # symbol will convert account numbers in account names (or vice versa.)




Spread Quotes

The Spread Quote slection menu allows users to choose between single, covered, vertical, butterfly, back/ratio, calendar, straddle, and strangle quotes. The user may specify which type of quote to view and then it will populate directly into the option montage.




Strike Selection

The strike selection mneu allows the user to choose how many strikes they would like to appear at one time.




Window Details button

Much like a drop down menu, clicking on a blue Window Details informs a user that there are multiple choices and/or alternatives to the default selection.