For more information, you may download a postscript version of the User's Guide (or the Acrobat pdf version , or the Word version ), call Xiaoyan Ma at (510) 643-8893, or send e-mail (preferred) to options@haas.berkeley.edu.

Data from the Berkeley Options Data Base may be purchased at the rate of $200 per month of historical data, with a minimum purchase of six months. This rate includes all trades and quotes for all options on all underlying securities A special rate of $150 per month is available to all academic institutions. In addition, academic institutions who are purchasing or have already purchased at least 36 months of data qualify for a discount rate of $120 per month. These are all one-time charges for perpetual use--there is no annual charge for continued use of the data. In addition, there is a media charge of $80 per 8mm tape (roughly $80 per six months of data). Subsets of the data (e.g., just a few options) are not available at this time. Data are offered in 8mm and 4mm tapes, or, by special arragement, can be supplied by ftp. Data are currently not available in CD-Rom format.