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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 2026-09-28, from iron-condor-screener-from-the-free-sql-api.

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knobs — 5 rows by 4 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
credit_floortight_bandwide_bandas_of
10%828Sep 24, 2026
20%823Sep 24, 2026
30%518Sep 24, 2026
40%311Sep 24, 2026
50%16Sep 24, 2026
Rows × columns
5 × 4
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
Licence
Strasmore terms · free, no signup
Formats
JSON · CSV · the SQL below

What each column holds

Column definitions for knobs, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
credit_floor text 5 distinct values (10%, 20%, 30%…)
tight_band number 1 to 8
wide_band number 6 to 28
as_of text 1 distinct value (Sep 24, 2026)

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.

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WITH
    (
        SELECT max(date)
        FROM global_markets.options_greeks
        WHERE underlying_symbol = 'SPY'
    ) AS snapshot,
    (
        SELECT expiration_date
        FROM global_markets.options_greeks
        WHERE underlying_symbol = 'SPY'
          AND date = snapshot
          AND iv_converged = 1
          AND volume > 0
          AND days_to_expiry BETWEEN 25 AND 45
        GROUP BY expiration_date
        ORDER BY sum(volume) DESC
        LIMIT 1
    ) AS target_expiry,
    chain AS
    (
        SELECT
            toFloat64(strike_price)                 AS k,
            if(toFloat64(delta) < 0, 'put', 'call') AS side,
            avg(toFloat64(option_close))            AS px,
            avg(toFloat64(delta))                   AS d
        FROM global_markets.options_greeks
        WHERE underlying_symbol = 'SPY'
          AND date = snapshot
          AND expiration_date = target_expiry
          AND iv_converged = 1
          AND volume > 0
          AND toFloat64(option_close) > 0
          AND toUInt32(round(toFloat64(strike_price) * 100)) % 500 = 0
        GROUP BY k, side
    ),
    put_spreads AS
    (
        SELECT s.d AS short_delta, s.px - l.px AS credit
        FROM chain AS s
        CROSS JOIN chain AS l
        WHERE s.side = 'put' AND l.side = 'put'
          AND s.d BETWEEN -0.25 AND -0.10
          AND abs(l.k - (s.k - 5)) < 0.01
    ),
    call_spreads AS
    (
        SELECT s.d AS short_delta, s.px - l.px AS credit
        FROM chain AS s
        CROSS JOIN chain AS l
        WHERE s.side = 'call' AND l.side = 'call'
          AND s.d BETWEEN 0.10 AND 0.25
          AND abs(l.k - (s.k + 5)) < 0.01
    )
SELECT
    concat(toString(f.min_ratio), '%')                          AS credit_floor,
    countIf(cand.credit_pct >= f.min_ratio AND cand.tight = 1)  AS tight_band,
    countIf(cand.credit_pct >= f.min_ratio)                     AS wide_band,
    formatDateTime(snapshot, '%b %e, %Y')                       AS as_of
FROM
(
    SELECT
        round(100 * (p.credit + c.credit) / (5 - (p.credit + c.credit)), 1) AS credit_pct,
        if((abs(p.short_delta) BETWEEN 0.12 AND 0.20)
           AND (c.short_delta BETWEEN 0.12 AND 0.20), 1, 0)                 AS tight
    FROM put_spreads AS p
    CROSS JOIN call_spreads AS c
    WHERE p.credit + c.credit BETWEEN 0.05 AND 4.0
) AS cand
CROSS JOIN
(
    SELECT arrayJoin([10, 20, 30, 40, 50]) AS min_ratio
) AS f
GROUP BY f.min_ratio
ORDER BY f.min_ratio
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