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Where the trading happened: SPY contract volume by strike, August 21 2026 expiry, 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.

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Where the trading happened: SPY contract volume by strike, August 21 2026 expiry, July 15 2026 — 8 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
strikecall_volumeput_volume
735811087
7402334057
745195970
75010779057
75534502340
7603769472
765297645
7704547109
Rows × columns
8 × 3
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds

Column definitions for Where the trading happened: SPY contract volume by strike, August 21 2026 expiry, July 15 2026, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
strike text 8 distinct values (735, 740, 745…)
call_volume number 81 to 4,547 count
put_volume number 45 to 9,057 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.

the exact SQL behind every number
SELECT toString(toUInt32(strike_price)) AS strike,
       toUInt64(sumIf(volume, option_type = 'C')) AS call_volume,
       toUInt64(sumIf(volume, option_type = 'P')) AS put_volume
FROM global_markets.options_greeks
WHERE underlying_symbol = 'SPY'
  AND date = toDate('2026-07-15')
  AND expiration_date = toDate('2026-08-21')
  AND strike_price BETWEEN 735 AND 770
  AND toUInt32(strike_price) % 5 = 0
  AND iv_converged
GROUP BY strike_price
HAVING countIf(option_type = 'C') > 0 AND countIf(option_type = 'P') > 0
ORDER BY strike_price

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