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Third Friday expirations over the next fourteen months, by underlyings listing them

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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Third Friday expirations over the next fourteen months, by underlyings listing them — 14 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
expiry_month_startmonth_labelunderlyings_listing
2026-08-01Aug 20263735
2026-09-01Sep 20263689
2026-10-01Oct 20261564
2026-11-01Nov 20261392
2026-12-01Dec 20261960
2027-01-01Jan 20272245
2027-02-01Feb 2027913
2027-03-01Mar 20271462
2027-04-01Apr 202750
2027-05-01May 202772
2027-07-01Jul 202726
2027-08-01Aug 202742
2027-09-01Sep 2027318
2027-10-01Oct 202711
Rows × columns
14 × 3
Period covered
to
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds

Column definitions for Third Friday expirations over the next fourteen months, by underlyings listing them, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
expiry_month_start date 2026-08-01 to 2027-10-01
month_label text 14 distinct values (Apr 2027, Aug 2026, Aug 2027…)
underlyings_listing number 11 to 3,735

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
    toString(toStartOfMonth(expiration_date))                AS expiry_month_start,
    formatDateTime(toStartOfMonth(expiration_date), '%b %Y') AS month_label,
    countDistinct(underlying_symbol)                         AS underlyings_listing
FROM global_markets.options_greeks
WHERE date = chain_date
  AND expiration_date >= chain_date
  AND days_to_expiry <= 430
  AND toDayOfWeek(expiration_date) = 5
  AND toDayOfMonth(expiration_date) BETWEEN 15 AND 21
  AND underlying_symbol NOT IN ('SPCX')
GROUP BY toStartOfMonth(expiration_date)
ORDER BY toStartOfMonth(expiration_date)

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