NVDA options: contracts, trades, call share, and premium by session
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 NVDA's May 2023 Earnings: The AI Gap.
| session | contracts_m | trades_k | call_share_pct | premium_bn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-05-17 | 0.87 | 173 | 58.2 | 0.74 |
| 2023-05-18 | 1.78 | 336 | 59.8 | 1.2 |
| 2023-05-19 | 1.18 | 227 | 57.9 | 0.72 |
| 2023-05-22 | 0.37 | 90 | 52 | 0.39 |
| 2023-05-23 | 0.42 | 95 | 51.5 | 0.4 |
| 2023-05-24 | 0.93 | 203 | 54.5 | 0.77 |
| 2023-05-25 | 2.75 | 602 | 59.8 | 4.82 |
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- US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds
| Column | Type | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
session |
date | 2023-05-17 to 2023-05-25 | |
contracts_m |
number | 0.37 to 2.75 | count |
trades_k |
number | 90 to 602 | count |
call_share_pct |
number | 51.5 to 59.8 | percent |
premium_bn |
number | 0.39 to 4.82 | US dollars |
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
toString(toDate(toTimeZone(sip_timestamp, 'America/New_York'))) AS session,
round(sum(size) / 1e6, 2) AS contracts_m,
round(count() / 1e3, 0) AS trades_k,
round(100.0 * sumIf(size, substring(ticker, 13, 1) = 'C') / sum(size), 1) AS call_share_pct,
round(sum(size * price * 100) / 1e9, 2) AS premium_bn
FROM global_markets.options_trades
WHERE ticker LIKE 'O:NVDA2%'
AND sip_timestamp >= toDateTime('2023-05-17 00:00:00') AND sip_timestamp < toDateTime('2023-05-26 00:00:00')
GROUP BY session
ORDER BY session
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