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put_ladder

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 2026-09-28, from can-you-buy-a-put-without-owning-the-stock.

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put_ladder — 14 rows by 4 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
strikeput_debit_usddelta_absbreakeven_below_spot_pct
$305630.0649.3
$310920.0917.9
$312.51100.1087.2
$3151360.1316.5
$317.51650.1555.9
$3202050.1865.3
$322.52460.2194.6
$3253050.264.1
$327.53790.3063.5
$3304450.3513
$332.55410.4032.5
$3356450.4572.1
$337.57600.5131.7
$3409000.5681.4
Rows × columns
14 × 4
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
Licence
Strasmore terms · free, no signup
Formats
JSON · CSV · the SQL below

What each column holds

Column definitions for put_ladder, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
strike text 14 distinct values ($305, $310, $312.5…)
put_debit_usd number 63 to 900 US dollars
delta_abs number 0.064 to 0.568
breakeven_below_spot_pct number 1.4 to 9.3 percent

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 , and the query below is what returned them.

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WITH
    chain AS
    (
        SELECT
            strike_price,
            expiration_date,
            option_close,
            underlying_close,
            delta,
            volume
        FROM global_markets.options_greeks
        WHERE date = (SELECT max(date) FROM global_markets.options_greeks WHERE date >= today() - 40)
          AND underlying_symbol = 'AAPL'
          AND lower(option_type) IN ('put', 'p')
          AND iv_converged = 1
          AND volume > 0
          AND days_to_expiry BETWEEN 20 AND 45
    ),
    busiest_expiry AS
    (
        SELECT expiration_date
        FROM chain
        GROUP BY expiration_date
        ORDER BY sum(volume) DESC
        LIMIT 1
    )
SELECT
    concat('$', toString(round(toFloat64(strike_price), 2)))     AS strike,
    round(toFloat64(any(option_close)) * 100, 0)                 AS put_debit_usd,
    round(abs(toFloat64(any(delta))), 3)                         AS delta_abs,
    round(100 * (1 - (toFloat64(any(strike_price)) - toFloat64(any(option_close)))
                     / toFloat64(any(underlying_close))), 1)     AS breakeven_below_spot_pct
FROM chain
WHERE expiration_date = (SELECT expiration_date FROM busiest_expiry)
  AND toFloat64(strike_price) / toFloat64(underlying_close) BETWEEN 0.90 AND 1.02
GROUP BY strike_price
ORDER BY strike_price
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