SPY option volume by time to expiration, July 15 2026
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 2026-07-31, from How to Read an Option Chain, Column by Column.
| expires_in | contracts_m | pct_of_spy_volume | distinct_contracts |
|---|---|---|---|
| same day (0DTE) | 8.48 | 66.9 | 170 |
| 1-7 days | 2.96 | 23.4 | 844 |
| 8-30 days | 0.61 | 4.8 | 1299 |
| 31-90 days | 0.51 | 4.1 | 1253 |
| over 90 days | 0.1 | 0.8 | 1502 |
- Rows × columns
- 5 × 4
- Computed
- Completeness
- No missing values
- Source
- US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
- Licence
- Strasmore terms · free, no signup
What each column holds
| Column | Type | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
expires_in |
text | 5 distinct values (1-7 days, 31-90 days, 8-30 days…) | |
contracts_m |
number | 0.1 to 8.48 | count |
pct_of_spy_volume |
number | 0.8 to 66.9 | percent |
distinct_contracts |
number | 170 to 1,502 | count |
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.
Run it yourself
This is the exact query behind the result above. Change a ticker, a date or a column and run it against the warehouse — no account, no key. The no-signup tier is smaller than the one this page was computed on; a query that reaches past it comes back saying which plan runs it.
WITH dateDiff('day', toDate('2026-07-15'), toDate(concat('20', substring(ticker, length(ticker) - 14, 2), '-', substring(ticker, length(ticker) - 12, 2), '-', substring(ticker, length(ticker) - 10, 2)))) AS dte
SELECT multiIf(dte = 0, 'same day (0DTE)', dte <= 7, '1-7 days', dte <= 30, '8-30 days',
dte <= 90, '31-90 days', 'over 90 days') AS expires_in,
round(sum(volume) / 1e6, 2) AS contracts_m,
round(100 * toFloat64(sum(volume)) / (SELECT toFloat64(sum(volume))
FROM global_markets.options_minute_aggs
WHERE window_start >= '2026-07-15 00:00:00' AND window_start < '2026-07-16 00:00:00'
AND substring(ticker, 3, length(ticker) - 17) = 'SPY'), 1) AS pct_of_spy_volume,
toUInt64(uniqExact(ticker)) AS distinct_contracts
FROM global_markets.options_minute_aggs
WHERE window_start >= '2026-07-15 00:00:00'
AND window_start < '2026-07-16 00:00:00'
AND substring(ticker, 3, length(ticker) - 17) = 'SPY'
AND dte >= 0
GROUP BY expires_in
ORDER BY min(dte)
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