Strikes that actually traded per session, 20 to 45 days out, May 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 2026-08-07, from Iron Condor vs Iron Butterfly: Break-Evens.

Rows × columns

6 × 3

Computed

2026-08-07

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

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 2026-08-07, and the query below is what returned them.

SELECT
    symbol,
    round(avg(strikes))       AS strikes_traded_per_day,
    round(avg(busy_strikes))  AS strikes_over_100_lots_per_day
FROM
(
    SELECT
        underlying_symbol                            AS symbol,
        date,
        countDistinct(strike_price)                  AS strikes,
        countDistinctIf(strike_price, volume >= 100) AS busy_strikes
    FROM global_markets.options_greeks
    WHERE underlying_symbol IN ('SPY', 'KO', 'AAPL', 'MSFT', 'NVDA', 'AMD')
      AND date BETWEEN '2026-05-01' AND '2026-05-29'
      AND days_to_expiry BETWEEN 20 AND 45
      AND volume > 0
    GROUP BY symbol, date
)
GROUP BY symbol
ORDER BY strikes_traded_per_day DESC