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Typical daily move: option premium against quoted volatility

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 2026-08-17, from How Options Are Quoted in Volatility.

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Typical daily move: option premium against quoted volatility — 6 rows by 4 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
symbolmedian_premium_move_pctmedian_vol_move_pctpremium_move_ratio
KO15.847.482.1
JNJ18.738.562.2
AAPL16.426.512.5
MSFT14.635.572.6
NVDA15.225.352.8
SPY16.375.393
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 Typical daily move: option premium against quoted volatility, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
symbol text 6 distinct values (AAPL, JNJ, KO…)
median_premium_move_pct number 14.63 to 18.73 percent
median_vol_move_pct number 5.35 to 8.56 percent
premium_move_ratio number 2.1 to 3 US dollars

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
SELECT
    underlying_symbol                                              AS symbol,
    round(quantileDeterministic(0.5)(premium_move_pct, obs_id), 2) AS median_premium_move_pct,
    round(quantileDeterministic(0.5)(vol_move_pct, obs_id), 2)     AS median_vol_move_pct,
    round(quantileDeterministic(0.5)(premium_move_pct, obs_id)
        / quantileDeterministic(0.5)(vol_move_pct, obs_id), 1)     AS premium_move_ratio
FROM
(
    SELECT
        underlying_symbol,
        cityHash64(ticker, date)                                AS obs_id,
        100 * abs(toFloat64(option_close) / prev_premium - 1)   AS premium_move_pct,
        100 * abs(toFloat64(implied_volatility) / prev_vol - 1) AS vol_move_pct
    FROM
    (
        SELECT
            underlying_symbol,
            ticker,
            date,
            option_close,
            implied_volatility,
            lagInFrame(toFloat64(option_close))       OVER (PARTITION BY ticker ORDER BY date ASC) AS prev_premium,
            lagInFrame(toFloat64(implied_volatility)) OVER (PARTITION BY ticker ORDER BY date ASC) AS prev_vol,
            lagInFrame(date)                          OVER (PARTITION BY ticker ORDER BY date ASC) AS prev_date
        FROM global_markets.options_greeks
        WHERE underlying_symbol IN ('AAPL', 'MSFT', 'NVDA', 'SPY', 'KO', 'JNJ')
          AND date BETWEEN '2026-04-06' AND '2026-05-15'
          AND iv_converged = 1
          AND volume > 0
          AND days_to_expiry BETWEEN 20 AND 45
          AND option_close > 0
          AND implied_volatility > 0
          AND abs(toFloat64(strike_price) / toFloat64(underlying_close) - 1) < 0.05
    )
    WHERE prev_premium > 0
      AND prev_vol > 0
      AND dateDiff('day', prev_date, date) <= 4
)
GROUP BY underlying_symbol
HAVING count() >= 200
ORDER BY premium_move_ratio ASC

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