May: whole-tape options contract volume and same-day-expiry share (one scan)

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 2026-07-16, from Market Recap: Q2 2026.

Rows × columns

1 × 3

Computed

2026-07-16

Completeness

No missing values

Source

US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data

Licence

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Formats

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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 2026-07-16, and the query below is what returned them.

SELECT round(sum(toFloat64(volume)) / 1e6, 1) AS contracts_mm,
       round(100.0 * sumIf(toFloat64(volume), toDateOrNull(concat('20', substring(ticker, length(ticker) - 14, 6))) = toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))) / sum(toFloat64(volume)), 1) AS zero_dte_pct,
       uniqExact(toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))) AS sessions
FROM global_markets.options_minute_aggs
WHERE window_start >= toDateTime('2026-05-01 00:00:00')
  AND window_start < toDateTime('2026-06-01 00:00:00')