How close expiring AAPL contracts finish to the strike

Answered against 22 years of US equities and 12 years of US options data and published with the query that produced it. This result is stored as of 2026-08-22, from Broker Exercise Cut-Off Times Explained.

Rows × columns

6 × 2

Computed

2026-08-22

Completeness

No missing values

Source

US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data

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What each column holds

Computed from Strasmore's warehouse of US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data. Equity prices are delayed; options greeks and implied volatility are end-of-day. This result is stored, not recomputed on load — it is exactly the numbers that were returned on 2026-08-22, and the query below is what returned them.

SELECT
    multiIf(dist < 0.0025, '0.00 to 0.25%',
            dist < 0.005,  '0.25 to 0.50%',
            dist < 0.01,   '0.50 to 1.00%',
            dist < 0.02,   '1.00 to 2.00%',
            dist < 0.05,   '2.00 to 5.00%',
                           'over 5.00%')  AS strike_distance,
    count()                               AS contract_count
FROM
(
    SELECT
        ticker,
        argMin(abs(toFloat64(strike_price) / toFloat64(underlying_close) - 1), days_to_expiry) AS dist
    FROM global_markets.options_greeks
    WHERE underlying_symbol = 'AAPL'
      AND days_to_expiry <= 1
      AND date >= '2026-01-01'
      AND date <  '2026-08-01'
      AND volume > 0
      AND underlying_close > 0
    GROUP BY ticker
)
GROUP BY strike_distance
ORDER BY min(dist)