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One near-money call each, premium as a share of the stock (Jul 6 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 2026-08-14, from Why Some Options Cost So Much More.

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One near-money call each, premium as a share of the stock (Jul 6 2026) — 2 rows by 4 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
instrumentspotcall_premiumpremium_pct_of_spot
SPY7517.350.98
TSLA417163.84
Rows × columns
2 × 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 One near-money call each, premium as a share of the stock (Jul 6 2026), derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
instrument text 2 distinct values (SPY, TSLA)
spot number 417 to 751
call_premium number 7.35 to 16 US dollars
premium_pct_of_spot number 0.98 to 3.84 percent

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
SELECT underlying_symbol AS instrument,
       round(avg(underlying_close), 0) AS spot,
       round(avg(option_close), 2) AS call_premium,
       round(avg(option_close) / avg(underlying_close) * 100, 2) AS premium_pct_of_spot
FROM global_markets.options_greeks
WHERE date = '2026-07-06'
  AND implied_volatility > 0.02
  AND ticker IN ('O:SPY260717C00750000', 'O:TSLA260717C00415000')
GROUP BY instrument
ORDER BY premium_pct_of_spot

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