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Listed expiration dates, one broad lineup against a thinner chain

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 2026-08-26, from Option Expiration Cycles Explained.

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Listed expiration dates, one broad lineup against a thinner chain — 6 rows by 4 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
symbollisted_expirationsexpirations_within_45dmonths_beyond_90d
SPY331610
AAPL231111
MSFT221110
KO18710
HRL1174
CLX623
Rows × columns
6 × 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 Listed expiration dates, one broad lineup against a thinner chain, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
symbol text 6 distinct values (AAPL, CLX, HRL…)
listed_expirations number 6 to 33
expirations_within_45d number 2 to 16
months_beyond_90d number 3 to 11

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 max(date)
    FROM global_markets.options_greeks
    WHERE date >= today() - 10
) AS chain_date
SELECT
    underlying_symbol                                                     AS symbol,
    countDistinct(expiration_date)                                        AS listed_expirations,
    countDistinctIf(expiration_date, days_to_expiry <= 45)                AS expirations_within_45d,
    countDistinctIf(toStartOfMonth(expiration_date), days_to_expiry > 90) AS months_beyond_90d
FROM global_markets.options_greeks
WHERE date = chain_date
  AND expiration_date >= chain_date
  AND underlying_symbol IN ('SPY', 'AAPL', 'MSFT', 'KO', 'CLX', 'HRL')
GROUP BY underlying_symbol
ORDER BY listed_expirations DESC

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