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skew_smile

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 2026-09-23, from gld-implied-volatility.

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skew_smile — 5 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
delta_bucketgld_iv_pctspy_iv_pct
10 delta put27.3123.17
25 delta put25.9618.86
at the money25.0914.98
25 delta call25.7312.7
10 delta call27.6711.65
Rows × columns
5 × 3
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
Licence
Strasmore terms · free, no signup
Formats
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What each column holds

Column definitions for skew_smile, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
delta_bucket text 5 distinct values
gld_iv_pct number 25.09 to 27.67 percent
spy_iv_pct number 11.65 to 23.17 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 wings AS
(
    SELECT
        underlying_symbol AS sym,
        multiIf(
            delta BETWEEN -0.15 AND -0.05, 1,
            delta BETWEEN -0.32 AND -0.18, 2,
            delta BETWEEN  0.45 AND  0.55, 3,
            delta BETWEEN  0.18 AND  0.32, 4,
            delta BETWEEN  0.05 AND  0.15, 5,
            0)            AS ord,
        toFloat64(implied_volatility) * 100 AS iv_pct
    FROM global_markets.options_greeks
    WHERE underlying_symbol IN ('GLD', 'SPY')
      AND date >= '2025-09-01'
      AND date <  '2026-09-01'
      AND iv_converged = 1
      AND volume > 0
      AND days_to_expiry BETWEEN 20 AND 45
)
SELECT
    ['10 delta put', '25 delta put', 'at the money', '25 delta call', '10 delta call'][ord] AS delta_bucket,
    round(avgIf(iv_pct, sym = 'GLD'), 2) AS gld_iv_pct,
    round(avgIf(iv_pct, sym = 'SPY'), 2) AS spy_iv_pct
FROM wings
WHERE ord > 0
GROUP BY ord
HAVING countIf(sym = 'GLD') > 0
   AND countIf(sym = 'SPY') > 0
ORDER BY ord
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