Contracts in the chain versus contracts that traded (Sep 16, 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 2026-10-08, from Does OPRA Have Depth of Book? Feed Explained.
| symbol | contracts_in_chain | contracts_traded |
|---|---|---|
| SPY | 5616 | 5616 |
| QQQ | 4522 | 4522 |
| MU | 4076 | 4076 |
| AMD | 3025 | 3025 |
| META | 2891 | 2891 |
| GLD | 2845 | 2845 |
| SNDK | 2377 | 2377 |
| TSLA | 2371 | 2371 |
| USO | 2069 | 2069 |
| SOXL | 1972 | 1972 |
| NVDA | 1959 | 1959 |
| IWM | 1897 | 1897 |
- Rows × columns
- 12 × 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
symbol |
text | 12 distinct values (AMD, GLD, IWM…) | |
contracts_in_chain |
number | 1,897 to 5,616 | count |
contracts_traded |
number | 1,897 to 5,616 | count |
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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SELECT
underlying_symbol AS symbol,
countDistinct(ticker) AS contracts_in_chain,
countDistinctIf(ticker, volume > 0) AS contracts_traded
FROM global_markets.options_greeks
WHERE date = '2026-09-16'
AND underlying_symbol NOT IN ('SPCX')
GROUP BY symbol
ORDER BY contracts_in_chain DESC
LIMIT 12
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