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Contracts priced near a coin flip: implied vs realized outcome by name, 2023 through 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 2026-08-03, from Event Contract Prices as Probabilities.

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Contracts priced near a coin flip: implied vs realized outcome by name, 2023 through June 2026 — 6 rows by 4 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
symbolcontractsimplied_prob_pctfinished_above_pct
SPY478550.668.4
AAPL71650.462.4
NVDA264150.257
KO52550.352.4
MSFT11565051
XOM128049.949.9
Rows × columns
6 × 4
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds

Column definitions for Contracts priced near a coin flip: implied vs realized outcome by name, 2023 through June 2026, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
symbol text 6 distinct values (AAPL, KO, MSFT…)
contracts number 525 to 4,785 count
implied_prob_pct number 49.9 to 50.6 percent
finished_above_pct number 49.9 to 68.4 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.

the exact SQL behind every number
WITH px AS (
    SELECT ticker,
           toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) AS session,
           argMax(toFloat64(close), window_start) AS close_px
    FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
    WHERE ticker IN ('SPY', 'AAPL', 'MSFT', 'NVDA', 'KO', 'XOM')
      AND toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) >= toDate('2023-01-01')
      AND toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) <= toDate('2026-06-30')
      AND (toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60
           + toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))) BETWEEN 570 AND 959
    GROUP BY ticker, session
),
snap AS (
    SELECT underlying_symbol AS symbol,
           ticker AS contract,
           argMin(delta, abs(days_to_expiry - 30)) AS implied_prob,
           toFloat64(any(strike_price)) AS strike,
           any(expiration_date) AS expiry
    FROM global_markets.options_greeks
    WHERE underlying_symbol IN ('SPY', 'AAPL', 'MSFT', 'NVDA', 'KO', 'XOM')
      AND date >= toDate('2023-01-01')
      AND expiration_date <= toDate('2026-06-30')
      AND days_to_expiry BETWEEN 25 AND 35
      AND iv_converged = 1
      AND volume > 0
      AND delta BETWEEN 0.40 AND 0.60
    GROUP BY symbol, contract
)
SELECT snap.symbol AS symbol,
       count() AS contracts,
       round(100 * avg(implied_prob), 1) AS implied_prob_pct,
       round(100 * avg(close_px > strike), 1) AS finished_above_pct
FROM snap
INNER JOIN px ON px.ticker = snap.symbol AND px.session = snap.expiry
GROUP BY symbol
ORDER BY finished_above_pct DESC

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