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Where the contracts landed: call and put volume by strike bucket

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 2026-07-13, from MU: The Biggest Tape of June 2026.

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Where the contracts landed: call and put volume by strike bucket — 16 rows by 4 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
strike_bucketcall_contractsput_contractsput_share_pct
$0866432910497.4
$100662833021898
$200537211175195.4
$300885520491395.9
$4002505035861793.5
$5002365466979896.6
$6003005994070696.9
$7006779487024292.8
$800209357125782985.7
$9001137271146023656.2
$10001923982107658935.9
$1100167873559600426.2
$120012890971092087.8
$1300601699172282.8
$140033043187072.6
$15001056463189161.8
Rows × columns
16 × 4
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
Licence
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What each column holds

Column definitions for Where the contracts landed: call and put volume by strike bucket, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
strike_bucket text 16 distinct values ($0, $100, $1000…)
call_contracts number 5,372 to 1,923,982 count
put_contracts number 8,707 to 1,460,236 count
put_share_pct number 1.8 to 98 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
    concat('$', toString(toUInt32(bucket))) AS strike_bucket,
    call_contracts,
    put_contracts,
    round(100.0 * put_contracts / (call_contracts + put_contracts), 1) AS put_share_pct
FROM (
    SELECT
        least(floor(toFloat64(toUInt32OrZero(substring(ticker, 12, 8))) / 1000 / 100) * 100, 1500) AS bucket,
        toUInt64(sumIf(size, substring(ticker, 11, 1) = 'C')) AS call_contracts,
        toUInt64(sumIf(size, substring(ticker, 11, 1) = 'P')) AS put_contracts
    FROM global_markets.options_trades
    WHERE startsWith(ticker, 'O:MU') AND length(ticker) = 19
      AND sip_timestamp >= toDateTime64('2026-06-01 00:00:00', 9) AND sip_timestamp < toDateTime64('2026-07-01 00:00:00', 9)
    GROUP BY bucket
)
ORDER BY toUInt32OrZero(substring(strike_bucket, 2))

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