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Net calls minus puts on AAPL, raw contracts and as a share of volume

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 2026-08-22, from How to Read the COT Report: Columns Explained.

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Net calls minus puts on AAPL, raw contracts and as a share of volume — 30 rows by 6 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
monthmonth_labelcall_contracts_thousandsput_contracts_thousandsnet_contracts_thousandsnet_share_pct
2024-01-01Jan 2024103737079329418.9
2024-02-01Feb 2024107075491521732.2
2024-03-01Mar 2024131898383480622.3
2024-04-01Apr 2024106656070459627.5
2024-05-01May 2024106886268442026.1
2024-06-01Jun 20242010710163994432.9
2024-07-01Jul 2024133507423592728.5
2024-08-01Aug 20249534802415108.6
2024-09-01Sep 202494907112237814.3
2024-10-01Oct 202483815528285320.5
2024-11-01Nov 202470004492250721.8
2024-12-01Dec 202485826510207213.7
2025-01-01Jan 2025111687181398821.7
2025-02-01Feb 202589466025292119.5
2025-03-01Mar 20258663760510586.5
2025-04-01Apr 202510811937614367.1
2025-05-01May 2025107356731400422.9
2025-06-01Jun 2025106476423422324.7
2025-07-01Jul 2025123174944737342.7
2025-08-01Aug 2025128206763605730.9
2025-09-01Sep 2025146805724895643.9
2025-10-01Oct 2025119455068687640.4
2025-11-01Nov 202575784479309925.7
2025-12-01Dec 202580963997409933.9
2026-01-01Jan 2026101875239494832.1
2026-02-01Feb 202696985292440529.4
2026-03-01Mar 202670774716236120
2026-04-01Apr 202699115022488932.7
2026-05-01May 2026114724475699843.9
2026-06-01Jun 2026107746104467127.7
Rows × columns
30 × 6
Period covered
to
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds

Column definitions for Net calls minus puts on AAPL, raw contracts and as a share of volume, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
month date 2024-01-01 to 2026-06-01
month_label text 30 distinct values (Apr 2024, Apr 2025, Apr 2026…)
call_contracts_thousands number 7,000 to 20,107 count
put_contracts_thousands number 3,997 to 10,163 count
net_contracts_thousands number 1,058 to 9,944 count
net_share_pct number 6.5 to 43.9 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.

the exact SQL behind every number
SELECT
    toString(month_start)                       AS month,
    formatDateTime(month_start, '%b %Y')        AS month_label,
    round(call_volume / 1000, 0)                AS call_contracts_thousands,
    round(put_volume / 1000, 0)                 AS put_contracts_thousands,
    round((call_volume - put_volume) / 1000, 0) AS net_contracts_thousands,
    round(100 * (call_volume - put_volume) / total_volume, 1) AS net_share_pct
FROM
(
    SELECT
        toStartOfMonth(date)                        AS month_start,
        sumIf(volume, option_type IN ('call', 'C')) AS call_volume,
        sumIf(volume, option_type IN ('put', 'P'))  AS put_volume,
        sum(volume)                                 AS total_volume
    FROM global_markets.options_greeks
    WHERE underlying_symbol = 'AAPL'
      AND date >= '2024-01-01'
      AND date <  '2026-07-01'
      AND iv_converged = 1
      AND volume > 0
    GROUP BY month_start
)
ORDER BY month_start

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