SPY option volume by days left to expiry, 17 June 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 2026-09-22, from Eurex Option Codes: ODAX, ODAP, OESX.
| expiry_bucket | contracts_traded | share_pct |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2310803 | 50.4 |
| 5 | 379342 | 8.3 |
| 6 | 128420 | 2.8 |
| 7 | 106366 | 2.3 |
| 8 or more | 1658342 | 36.2 |
- Rows × columns
- 5 × 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
expiry_bucket |
text | 5 distinct values (1, 5, 6…) | |
contracts_traded |
number | 106,366 to 2,310,803 | count |
share_pct |
number | 2.3 to 50.4 | 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 spy AS
(
SELECT
days_to_expiry,
volume
FROM global_markets.options_greeks
WHERE underlying_symbol = 'SPY'
AND date = '2026-06-17'
AND volume > 0
AND days_to_expiry >= 0
)
SELECT
if(days_to_expiry >= 8, '8 or more', toString(days_to_expiry)) AS expiry_bucket,
sum(volume) AS contracts_traded,
round(100 * sum(volume) / (SELECT sum(volume) FROM spy), 1) AS share_pct
FROM spy
GROUP BY expiry_bucket
ORDER BY min(days_to_expiry)
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