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Where vega peaks: AAPL vega and IV across strikes, 20 to 45 days out (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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Where vega peaks: AAPL vega and IV across strikes, 20 to 45 days out (July 2026) — 12 rows by 4 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
strike_vs_spotavg_iv_pctvega_vs_peakcontract_day_count
-12% from spot35.50.46187
-10% from spot32.70.55182
-8% from spot31.90.68197
-6% from spot30.90.81238
-4% from spot30.70.92206
-2% from spot29.80.99226
0% from spot29.21233
2% from spot290.97210
4% from spot29.60.88201
6% from spot29.20.76169
8% from spot29.60.65133
10% from spot29.30.52130
Rows × columns
12 × 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 Where vega peaks: AAPL vega and IV across strikes, 20 to 45 days out (July 2026), derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
strike_vs_spot text 12 distinct values
avg_iv_pct number 29 to 35.5 percent
vega_vs_peak number 0.46 to 1
contract_day_count number 130 to 238 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 mny AS
(
    SELECT
        floor((toFloat64(strike_price) / toFloat64(underlying_close) - 1) * 50) / 50 AS strike_offset,
        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 20 AND 45
      AND abs(toFloat64(strike_price) / toFloat64(underlying_close) - 1) <= 0.12
    GROUP BY strike_offset
    HAVING count() >= 30
)
SELECT
    concat(toString(toInt32(round(strike_offset * 100))), '% from spot') AS strike_vs_spot,
    round(iv_avg * 100, 1)                                              AS avg_iv_pct,
    round(vega_avg / max(vega_avg) OVER (), 2)                          AS vega_vs_peak,
    toUInt32(contract_days)                                             AS contract_day_count
FROM mny
ORDER BY strike_offset

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