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Same underlying, same IV, rising vega: AAPL by days to expiry (July 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 2026-08-13, from Implied Volatility vs Vega: The Difference.

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Same underlying, same IV, rising vega: AAPL by days to expiry (July 2026) — 14 rows by 4 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
dte_bucketavg_iv_pctvega_vs_frontcontract_day_count
0 to 29 days33.213957
30 to 59 days28.82.28822
60 to 89 days28.33.19299
90 to 119 days28.13.75226
120 to 149 days28.64.3303
150 to 179 days28.34.76312
180 to 209 days27.95.07183
210 to 239 days28.65.54152
240 to 269 days28.45.75100
330 to 359 days28.86.67103
390 to 419 days30.37.5353
420 to 449 days29.17.48155
480 to 509 days30.78.2351
510 to 539 days29.58.14168
Rows × columns
14 × 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 Same underlying, same IV, rising vega: AAPL by days to expiry (July 2026), derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
dte_bucket text 14 distinct values
avg_iv_pct number 27.9 to 33.2 percent
vega_vs_front number 1 to 8.23
contract_day_count number 51 to 3,957 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
WITH ntm AS
(
    SELECT
        intDiv(days_to_expiry, 30) * 30 AS dte_floor,
        avg(toFloat64(vega))            AS vega_avg,
        avg(implied_volatility)         AS iv_avg,
        count()                         AS contract_days
    FROM global_markets.options_greeks
    WHERE underlying_symbol = 'AAPL'
      AND date >= '2026-07-01'
      AND date <  '2026-08-01'
      AND iv_converged = 1
      AND volume > 0
      AND days_to_expiry BETWEEN 1 AND 545
      AND abs(toFloat64(strike_price) / toFloat64(underlying_close) - 1) < 0.05
    GROUP BY dte_floor
    HAVING count() >= 50
)
SELECT
    concat(toString(dte_floor), ' to ', toString(dte_floor + 29), ' days') AS dte_bucket,
    round(iv_avg * 100, 1)                                                 AS avg_iv_pct,
    round(vega_avg / first_value(vega_avg) OVER (ORDER BY dte_floor ROWS BETWEEN UNBOUNDED PRECEDING AND UNBOUNDED FOLLOWING), 2) AS vega_vs_front,
    toUInt32(contract_days)                                                AS contract_day_count
FROM ntm
ORDER BY dte_floor

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