SPY contract volume by days to expiry, September 2026
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 2026-10-05, from Do Multi-Leg Options Count as One Day Trade?.
| dte_bucket | contracts_millions | share_pct |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 5 | 42.87 | 57.7 |
| 6 to 21 | 18.16 | 24.4 |
| 22 to 60 | 8.61 | 11.6 |
| 61 or more | 4.67 | 6.3 |
- Rows × columns
- 4 × 3
- Computed
- Completeness
- No missing values
- Source
- US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
- Licence
- Strasmore terms · free, no signup
What each column holds
| Column | Type | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
dte_bucket |
text | 4 distinct values (1 to 5, 22 to 60, 6 to 21…) | |
contracts_millions |
number | 4.67 to 42.87 | count |
share_pct |
number | 6.3 to 57.7 | 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
(
SELECT sum(volume)
FROM global_markets.options_greeks
WHERE underlying_symbol = 'SPY'
AND date >= '2026-09-01'
AND date < '2026-10-01'
AND volume > 0
) AS month_volume
SELECT
multiIf(
days_to_expiry = 0, '0 (same day)',
days_to_expiry BETWEEN 1 AND 5, '1 to 5',
days_to_expiry BETWEEN 6 AND 21, '6 to 21',
days_to_expiry BETWEEN 22 AND 60, '22 to 60',
'61 or more') AS dte_bucket,
round(sum(volume) / 1e6, 2) AS contracts_millions,
round(100 * sum(volume) / month_volume, 1) AS share_pct
FROM global_markets.options_greeks
WHERE underlying_symbol = 'SPY'
AND date >= '2026-09-01'
AND date < '2026-10-01'
AND volume > 0
GROUP BY dte_bucket
ORDER BY min(days_to_expiry)
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