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not to exercise the option.Published on 20 June 2022Updated on 20 June 2025Product documentationDelisting plan of TRX futures contracts
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What are the API Best Practices? For those connected via API, visit here to learn more about API best practices.Is Market Maker Protection (MMP) available for options trading? We offer Market Maker Protection for options market makers to protect makers from executing too much within a short period of time. Please contact your account manager or institutional@okx.com if you want to have it enabled. Please refer to Market Maker Protection API.Published on 19 Nov 2024Updated on 9 Feb 2026FAQ4What's Options trading?
Strike price (or exercise price): the price at which the Options buyer can buy or sell an underlying asset when exercising a Call or Put options respectively. Contract type: Call options give the buyer the right to buy at a specified price while Put options give the right to sell at a specified price. Exercise Style: American Options can be exercised at any time prior to its expiration date. European options can only be exercised on its expiration date. OKX Options are European options.Published on 19 Nov 2024Updated on 9 Feb 2026FAQ10OKX Options Introduction
Contract type: Call options give the holder the right to buy at a specified price while put options give the right to sell at a specified price. Exercise Style: American Options can be exercised at any time prior to its expiration date. European options can only be exercised on its expiration date. OKX Options are European options. Option premium: the price at which an option is bought or sold.Published on 5 Sept 2023Updated on 6 Nov 2025Product documentationGet started with OKX Options
For Institutional Investors: 6.1 API Best Practices For those connected via API, here is API best practices. 6.2 Market Maker Protection (MMP) We offer MMP for options market makers to protect makers from executing too much within a short period of time. Please contact your account manager or institutional@okx.com if you want to have it enabled. Please refer to MMP API. Please note the time interval is in milliseconds, not seconds.Published on 9 Oct 2023Updated on 20 Feb 2026Product documentationIntroduction to Options Expiration Dates
For example, 4th-daily options will not be generated every Monday as the weekly options also expire on that same Friday.Published on 5 Sept 2023Updated on 1 Apr 2025Product documentationCalculation of option's profit and loss
As to initial margin of short positions, please refer to Introduction to the calculation of options margin. Maintenance margin The maintenance margin for long positions is 0. As to maintenance margin of short positions, please refer to Introduction to the calculation of options margin. 2. Multi-currency margin mode: cross margin Under the multi-currency margin mode: cross margin, the system only allows users to open short positions of options.Published on 20 June 2022Updated on 1 Apr 2025Product documentationIntroduction to options margin calculation
Call options’ seller: Position margin = [max (0.1, 0.15 - OTM value / same expiry futures mark price) * margin factor + options mark price] * contract multiplier * amount of positions = [max (0.1, 0.15 – 100 / 5900) * 1.02 + 0.0575] * 0.1 * 50 = 0.96606 BTC (3) Put options’ seller:Position margin of BTCUSD and ETHUSD options = [max (0.1 * (1 + options mark price), 0.15 – OTM value / same expiry futures mark price) * margin factor + options mark price] * contract multiplier * amount of positions ExamplePublished on 16 Dec 2020Updated on 17 Nov 2025Product documentationOptions Order and Position Limits
Details of Order or Position Limits The following are position limit rules for options trading. Number in examples shown below are for reference only. Please refer to the above table for the maximum limits. [Rule #1] Max. No. of BTC/USD Options contracts for each order is 25,000. One can place an order of up to 25,000 BTC/USD options contracts. Example: User wants to buy or sell 25,001 BTC/USD options contracts. As the number of order contracts exceeds the limit, this order cannot be placed.Published on 10 Dec 2019Updated on 1 Apr 2025Product documentationAnnouncement regarding OKX's plan to support OM crypto migration
As advised by the MANTRA team in the following X post, OKX will revise the OM ERC20 to MANTRA chain migration schedule. OM transfers, deposits and withdrawals will be suspended at 08:00 UTC on Jan 3, 2026. The migration will take place between 08:00 UTC on Jan 3, 2026, and 22:00 UTC on Jan 5, 2026. Please note that OKX will strive to complete the token migration within the specified time frame....Published on 21 Dec 2025Updated on 11 Feb 2026AnnouncementsHow do I set up a recurring buy plan?
If you create a weekly plan at 11:05 AM on Tuesday, your future orders will be completed every Tuesday at 11:05 AM. You can check the date of your next order with your plan details.3. How do I manage my recurring buy plan? You can manage your plan easily from your plan details. Go to the Activity page and you'll find Recurring buy option on top of the page. Select Recurring buy to view all the plans you've set up.Published on 23 Jan 2025Updated on 31 Dec 2025FAQ50How to use OKX's option copilot
At OKX, we understand that professional options trading can be challenging. That's why we offer simplified options portfolio trading through our options copilot feature. This feature allows you to manage different market expectations using multi-leg combinations. Currently, we support three types of options structured products: Yield Hunter.Yield Hunter Yield Hunter is a non-principal-protected investment product that helps OKX users achieve higher annualized returns.Published on 18 Oct 2023Updated on 1 Apr 2025Product documentationOKX to change options tick size
To further improve market liquidity and price discovery, OKX will reduce the tick size of lower-priced options at 8:00 am UTC on August 31, 2023. The options tick size of the RFQ platform will remain as 0.0001 Bitcoin (BTC) or Ethereum (ETH). This change will apply to new orders, but will not impact existing orders or positions.Published on 24 Aug 2023Updated on 17 Nov 2025Announcements