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SPY same-day (0DTE) options: contracts by strike distance from the closing price

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 2026-07-26, from Market Recap: July 9, 2026, The Day in Numbers.

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SPY same-day (0DTE) options: contracts by strike distance from the closing price — 5 rows by 4 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
strike_bucketcall_contracts_kput_contracts_kcall_share_pct
Strike >2% below close1.8146.81.2
Strike 0.5-2% below255.41356.515.8
Strike within 0.5%3768.92563.359.5
Strike 0.5-2% above29.12.791.6
Strike >2% above close0.30.349
Rows × columns
5 × 4
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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Formats
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What each column holds

Column definitions for SPY same-day (0DTE) options: contracts by strike distance from the closing price, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
strike_bucket text 5 distinct values
call_contracts_k number 0.3 to 3,768.9 count
put_contracts_k number 0.3 to 2,563.3 count
call_share_pct number 1.2 to 91.6 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
WITH (
    SELECT toFloat64(argMax(close, window_start))
    FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
    WHERE ticker = 'SPY' AND window_start >= '2026-07-09 13:30:00' AND window_start < '2026-07-09 20:00:00'
) AS spy_close
SELECT
    multiIf(dist < -2, 'Strike >2% below close',
            dist < -0.5, 'Strike 0.5-2% below',
            dist <= 0.5, 'Strike within 0.5%',
            dist <= 2, 'Strike 0.5-2% above',
            'Strike >2% above close') AS strike_bucket,
    round(toFloat64(sumIf(size, option_type = 'C')) / 1e3, 1) AS call_contracts_k,
    round(toFloat64(sumIf(size, option_type = 'P')) / 1e3, 1) AS put_contracts_k,
    round(100.0 * sumIf(size, option_type = 'C') / sum(size), 1) AS call_share_pct
FROM (
    SELECT option_type, size, (toFloat64(strike_price) / spy_close - 1) * 100 AS dist
    FROM global_markets.options_trades
    WHERE sip_timestamp >= '2026-07-09 00:00:00' AND sip_timestamp < '2026-07-10 00:00:00'
      AND underlying_symbol = 'SPY'
      AND substring(ticker, length(ticker) - 14, 6) = '260709'
)
GROUP BY strike_bucket
ORDER BY min(dist)

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