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IV term structure, six liquid names: median near-the-money implied volatility by expiry band, June 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 2026-08-04, from IV Term Structure: What the Curve Tells You.

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IV term structure, six liquid names: median near-the-money implied volatility by expiry band, June 2026 — 5 rows by 4 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
expiry_bandmedian_iv_pctpts_vs_front_bandcontract_count
5-20 days19.607332
21-45 days17.6-26827
46-90 days16.3-3.25593
91-180 days18.5-1.16736
181-365 days21.51.96559
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5 × 4
Computed
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No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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Column definitions for IV term structure, six liquid names: median near-the-money implied volatility by expiry band, June 2026, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
expiry_band text 5 distinct values (181-365 days, 21-45 days, 46-90 days…)
median_iv_pct number 16.3 to 21.5 percent
pts_vs_front_band number -3.2 to 1.9
contract_count number 5,593 to 7,332 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.

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WITH (
    SELECT quantileDeterministic(0.5)(toFloat64(implied_volatility), cityHash64(ticker))
    FROM global_markets.options_greeks
    WHERE underlying_symbol IN ('SPY', 'AAPL', 'MSFT', 'KO', 'JNJ', 'PG')
      AND date >= toDate('2026-06-01')
      AND date < toDate('2026-07-01')
      AND iv_converged = 1
      AND volume > 0
      AND implied_volatility BETWEEN 0.03 AND 3
      AND abs(toFloat64(delta)) BETWEEN 0.35 AND 0.65
      AND days_to_expiry BETWEEN 5 AND 20
) AS front_band_iv
SELECT multiIf(days_to_expiry <= 20, '5-20 days',
               days_to_expiry <= 45, '21-45 days',
               days_to_expiry <= 90, '46-90 days',
               days_to_expiry <= 180, '91-180 days',
               '181-365 days') AS expiry_band,
       round(100 * quantileDeterministic(0.5)(toFloat64(implied_volatility), cityHash64(ticker)), 1) AS median_iv_pct,
       round(100 * (quantileDeterministic(0.5)(toFloat64(implied_volatility), cityHash64(ticker)) - front_band_iv), 1) AS pts_vs_front_band,
       count() AS contract_count
FROM global_markets.options_greeks
WHERE underlying_symbol IN ('SPY', 'AAPL', 'MSFT', 'KO', 'JNJ', 'PG')
  AND date >= toDate('2026-06-01')
  AND date < toDate('2026-07-01')
  AND iv_converged = 1
  AND volume > 0
  AND implied_volatility BETWEEN 0.03 AND 3
  AND abs(toFloat64(delta)) BETWEEN 0.35 AND 0.65
  AND days_to_expiry BETWEEN 5 AND 365
GROUP BY expiry_band
ORDER BY min(days_to_expiry)

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