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Equity Options
Requesting Data
Request Equity Options data in your algorithm to receive a feed of contract prices in the on_data method.
For more information about the specific dataset we use for backtests, see the US Equity Options dataset listing.
To trade Equity Options live, you can use one of the brokerage data providers.
We currently only support American-style Options for US Equity Options.
To request Equity Options data, call one of the following methods:
self.add_optionto add a basket of contracts for a single underlying Equityself.add_option_contractto add individual contracts for an underlying Equity
Request and Filter Contracts for Option Strategies
self.add_option
Request and Filter All Contracts
self.add_option
Select Individual Contracts
self.add_option_contract
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