Where long-dated option volume lands, by expiry month code

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 2026-08-09, from How to Read a Futures Symbol (ESZ6, CLF27).

Rows × columns

11 × 3

Computed

2026-08-09

Completeness

No missing values

Source

US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data

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What each column holds

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 2026-08-09, and the query below is what returned them.

SELECT
    concat(
        arrayElement(['F','G','H','J','K','M','N','Q','U','V','X','Z'], toMonth(expiration_date)),
        ' (',
        arrayElement(['Jan','Feb','Mar','Apr','May','Jun','Jul','Aug','Sep','Oct','Nov','Dec'], toMonth(expiration_date)),
        ')'
    )                                          AS code_bucket,
    round(toFloat64(sum(volume)) / 1e6, 2)     AS contracts_millions,
    countDistinct(expiration_date)             AS expiry_dates
FROM global_markets.options_greeks
WHERE underlying_symbol IN ('SPY', 'QQQ', 'AAPL', 'NVDA')
  AND date >= '2026-01-02'
  AND date <  '2026-07-01'
  AND days_to_expiry > 120
  AND volume > 0
  AND iv_converged = 1
GROUP BY toMonth(expiration_date)
ORDER BY contracts_millions DESC