# option-chain-analytics Point-in-time option-chain containers, feed normalisation, reconstruction, and queries for quantitative research. The fastest route is [first success](first_success.md). It is deterministic, offline, and requires no provider account. Before mapping empirical data, read the [schema contract](schema.md), [point-in-time rules](point_in_time.md), and [data-source boundaries](data_sources.md). The repository's [supported examples](https://github.com/ArturSepp/OptionChainAnalytics/blob/main/examples/README.md) state the data prerequisite, network behavior, and output of every runnable script. Cache-first SPY workflows make no request after the local ThetaData cache has been built. ```{toctree} :maxdepth: 2 :caption: User guide first_success schema point_in_time queries data_sources comparison ```