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Average at-the-money SPY option premium by days to expiry, first half of 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 2026-08-18, from Does Theta Decay Over the Weekend?.

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Average at-the-money SPY option premium by days to expiry, first half of 2026 — 7 rows by 2 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
dte_bucketavg_premium_pct
1 DTE0.391
2-3 DTE0.561
4-7 DTE0.771
8-14 DTE1.085
15-30 DTE1.617
31-60 DTE2.238
61-120 DTE3.199
Rows × columns
7 × 2
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds

Column definitions for Average at-the-money SPY option premium by days to expiry, first half of 2026, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
dte_bucket text 7 distinct values (1 DTE, 15-30 DTE, 2-3 DTE…)
avg_premium_pct number 0.391 to 3.199 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.

the exact SQL behind every number
SELECT
    dte_bucket,
    round(avg(premium_pct), 3) AS avg_premium_pct
FROM
(
    SELECT
        multiIf(days_to_expiry <= 1,  '1 DTE',
                days_to_expiry <= 3,  '2-3 DTE',
                days_to_expiry <= 7,  '4-7 DTE',
                days_to_expiry <= 14, '8-14 DTE',
                days_to_expiry <= 30, '15-30 DTE',
                days_to_expiry <= 60, '31-60 DTE',
                                      '61-120 DTE')           AS dte_bucket,
        days_to_expiry                                        AS dte,
        100 * toFloat64(option_close) / toFloat64(underlying_close) AS premium_pct
    FROM global_markets.options_greeks
    WHERE underlying_symbol = 'SPY'
      AND date >= '2026-01-02'
      AND date <  '2026-07-01'
      AND iv_converged = 1
      AND volume > 0
      AND days_to_expiry BETWEEN 1 AND 120
      AND toFloat64(option_close) > 0
      AND abs(toFloat64(strike_price) / toFloat64(underlying_close) - 1) < 0.005
)
GROUP BY dte_bucket
ORDER BY min(dte) ASC

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