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put_cost_curve

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 2026-09-28, from how-many-puts-to-hedge-a-portfolio.

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put_cost_curve — 4 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
strike_distancepremium_pct_of_notionalannualised_pct
within 2% of spot1.3613.7
2% to 5% below spot0.798.1
5% to 10% below spot0.394
10% to 20% below spot0.161.6
Rows × columns
4 × 3
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
Licence
Strasmore terms · free, no signup
Formats
JSON · CSV · the SQL below

What each column holds

Column definitions for put_cost_curve, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
strike_distance text 4 distinct values
premium_pct_of_notional number 0.16 to 1.36 percent
annualised_pct number 1.6 to 13.7 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 puts AS
(
    SELECT
        days_to_expiry                                       AS dte,
        toFloat64(strike_price) / toFloat64(underlying_close) AS moneyness,
        toFloat64(option_close) / toFloat64(underlying_close) AS premium_share
    FROM global_markets.options_greeks
    WHERE underlying_symbol = 'SPY'
      AND lower(toString(option_type)) LIKE 'p%'
      AND days_to_expiry BETWEEN 20 AND 60
      AND underlying_close > 0
      AND option_close > 0
      AND date >= (SELECT max(date) - 180 FROM global_markets.options_greeks WHERE underlying_symbol = 'SPY')
      AND date <= (SELECT max(date) FROM global_markets.options_greeks WHERE underlying_symbol = 'SPY')
)
SELECT
    strike_distance,
    round(100 * avg(premium_share), 2)                  AS premium_pct_of_notional,
    round(100 * avg(premium_share) * 365 / avg(dte), 1) AS annualised_pct
FROM
(
    SELECT
        premium_share,
        dte,
        moneyness,
        multiIf(moneyness >= 0.98, 'within 2% of spot',
                moneyness >= 0.95, '2% to 5% below spot',
                moneyness >= 0.90, '5% to 10% below spot',
                '10% to 20% below spot')                AS strike_distance
    FROM puts
    WHERE moneyness >= 0.80
      AND moneyness <  1.00
)
GROUP BY strike_distance
HAVING count() > 5
ORDER BY avg(moneyness) DESC
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