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How the screened universe distributes across IV rank, latest session

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 2026-08-15, from Highest IV Rank Stocks Right Now.

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How the screened universe distributes across IV rank, latest session — 9 rows by 7 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
iv_rank_bucketnamesnames_cumulativemedian_iv_pctmedian_gap_to_top_pctlowest_iv_pcthighest_iv_pct
80-904456.3032.884.6
70-8071137.9-18.430.674.7
60-7092050.1-6.22386.9
50-60254547.9-8.422.983.5
40-50388347.5-8.815.8105.1
30-403912231-25.315.2113.3
20-305617831.5-24.85.697.9
10-203120939.4-16.912.285.4
0-103124033.8-22.512.486.7
Rows × columns
9 × 7
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds

Column definitions for How the screened universe distributes across IV rank, latest session, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
iv_rank_bucket text 9 distinct values (0-10, 10-20, 20-30…)
names number 4 to 56
names_cumulative number 4 to 240
median_iv_pct number 31 to 56.3 percent
median_gap_to_top_pct number -25.3 to 0 percent
lowest_iv_pct number 5.6 to 32.8 percent
highest_iv_pct number 74.7 to 113.3 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 per_session AS (
    SELECT underlying_symbol AS u,
           date AS d,
           quantileExact(0.5)(implied_volatility) AS iv,
           sum(volume) AS vol
    FROM global_markets.options_greeks
    WHERE date >= (SELECT max(date) FROM global_markets.options_greeks) - 380
      AND iv_converged AND implied_volatility BETWEEN 0.02 AND 5
      AND abs(strike_price / underlying_close - 1) <= 0.05
      AND expiration_date BETWEEN date + 20 AND date + 60
      AND underlying_symbol NOT IN ('SPCX','KORU','SOXL','SOXS','TQQQ','SQQQ','NVDL','NVDS','NVD','TSLL','TSLQ','TSLZ','SPXL','SPXS','UPRO','SPXU','LABU','LABD','FAS','FAZ','TNA','TZA','YINN','YANG','UDOW','SDOW','BOIL','KOLD','UCO','SCO','USD','SSO','SDS','QLD','QID','ERX','ERY','DRN','DRV','CURE','SOXY','MUU','SNXX','UVXY','SVXY','UVIX','SVIX','BULZ','WEBL','WEBS','DPST','DRIP','GUSH','AGQ','ZSL','BITX','ETHU','MSTX','MSTU','CONL','DUST','JNUG','JDST','NUGT','AMDL','NUAI','VXX','VIXY')
    GROUP BY u, d
    HAVING count() >= 10
),
ranked AS (
    SELECT u, d, iv, vol,
           row_number() OVER w AS rn,
           first_value(iv) OVER w AS iv_latest,
           first_value(d) OVER w AS d_latest
    FROM per_session
    WINDOW w AS (PARTITION BY u ORDER BY d DESC)
),
agg AS (
    SELECT u,
           any(iv_latest) AS iv_cur,
           any(d_latest) AS last_d,
           count() AS sessions,
           min(iv) AS iv_lo,
           max(iv) AS iv_hi,
           sumIf(vol, rn <= 20) AS vol_20d
    FROM ranked
    WHERE rn <= 252
    GROUP BY u
),
screened AS (
    SELECT least(intDiv(toUInt16(floor(100 * (iv_cur - iv_lo) / (iv_hi - iv_lo))), 10), 9) AS b,
           100 * iv_cur AS iv_now_pct
    FROM agg
    WHERE sessions >= 200
      AND vol_20d >= 20000
      AND iv_hi > iv_lo
      AND last_d = (SELECT max(date) FROM global_markets.options_greeks)
),
buckets AS (
    SELECT b,
           count() AS names,
           round(quantileExact(0.5)(iv_now_pct), 1) AS median_iv_pct,
           round(min(iv_now_pct), 1) AS lowest_iv_pct,
           round(max(iv_now_pct), 1) AS highest_iv_pct
    FROM screened
    GROUP BY b
)
SELECT concat(toString(b * 10), '-', toString(b * 10 + 10)) AS iv_rank_bucket,
       names,
       sum(names) OVER (ORDER BY b DESC) AS names_cumulative,
       median_iv_pct,
       round(median_iv_pct - first_value(median_iv_pct) OVER (ORDER BY b DESC), 1) AS median_gap_to_top_pct,
       lowest_iv_pct,
       highest_iv_pct
FROM buckets
ORDER BY b DESC

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