Options Trading Simulator

Every option has a deadline, called the expiration. After that date it's over: either it paid off, or it's worth nothing. Click a date row to open its prices. More days left means a pricier contract, because more can still happen.

Every option has a target price too, called the strike. It's the price you're locking in: a call locks in a price to buy, a put locks in a price to sell, no matter how far the stock falls. Calls live to the left of the strike, puts to the right, and every strike in between is its own separate contract with its own price.

Colors tell you whether a contract is already worth something. Green ones would pay out if today were expiration day. Plain ones are pure hope: they only pay if ABC moves far enough in time.

Every option has two prices at once. Ask is what you pay to buy. Bid is what you get when you sell. The gap between them is the spread, and it's a real cost: you lose it the instant you buy.

IV (implied volatility) is how much movement the market is pricing in. High IV means expensive options, because a wild stock is more likely to pay off. Vol is how many contracts changed hands today, a rough gauge of how easy it'll be to sell yours later.

Let's say you want to buy the $210 put, expiring Feb 14, 30 days out. Follow the red numbers in the chain above: 1 is the Feb 14 row, 2 is the $210 strike, 3 is the Ask column, the buy column. Where that row meets that column is the price that's pulsing green. That's every piece of an option in one cell: the date, the strike, and the side. Click it to open your order ticket.

Grab either slider below and drag it. Everything above reprices instantly: the chain, your contract, your profit. This is the part beginners never get to see before real money is on the line.