Finding and Importing a Single Stock’s Options Chain into Excel

Summary

The document discusses ways to obtain a stock’s options chain, including multiple expiries, and make the data usable in Excel without manually copying each entry. One response points to a commercial source of historical options data supplied in CSV format, which can be opened or imported into Excel. It cautions that daily closing quotes for options may not always be accurate.

Another response suggests downloading delayed option quotes from the CBOE website and then processing the resulting table with tools such as Excel macros or statistical programming languages. This route requires data manipulation rather than a simple copy-and-paste step. The discussion offers practical leads rather than a complete workflow: it does not establish that either source provides every expiry, specify current availability or coverage, or compare data quality and cost in detail. The source remarks also distinguish historical data from delayed quotes and do not promise real-time access or a free end-to-end solution.

Key ideas

• Historical options data may be available from commercial providers in CSV format.
• Daily closing option quotes can be inaccurate.
• Delayed quotes from an exchange website may be downloaded and processed for spreadsheet use.
• Importing and organizing the data can require additional scripting or spreadsheet work.
• The discussion does not provide a complete or current comparison of data sources.

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# How to automatically get all options data for a particular stock into microsoft excel?


# How to automatically get all options data for a particular stock into microsoft excel?












I'm looking for a way to get the entire options chain (All options expiries) for a particular stock in excel without manually copy pasting anything. It does not have to be real time and I will only be searching for 1 stocks options at a time. A free method would be ideal.

## Answer by baerrus (score 1)

https://quant.stackexchange.com/a/22933

There was a recent thread discussing this historic options data That data source mentioned there is commercial, though reasonably priced. Their data in CSV format readily ingestible by Excel. One note of caution is options' daily closing quotes are not always accurate.

## Answer by Dr_Be (score 0)

https://quant.stackexchange.com/a/22926

From e.g. the CBOE web site you are able to download a full table of option quotes (delayed) for a specific stock (menu quotes - delayed quotes).

Take it from there, appply data manipulation (Excel VBA, R, Python..) to the extent needed and then you should be be able to end up with the desired result. This wouldn't be a simple copy & paste procedure; it requires some effort on your side but - there's no free lunch.

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