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What a covered call collects across strikes: AAPL, about one month out

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 2026-08-22, from Options Approval Levels: What Each Tier Allows.

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What a covered call collects across strikes: AAPL, about one month out — 6 rows by 5 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
strike_labelcall_premiumpremium_pct_of_spotabove_spot_pctpriced_on
$3207.842.470.9Aug 19, 2026
$3255.851.852.5Aug 19, 2026
$3304.251.344.1Aug 19, 2026
$33530.955.7Aug 19, 2026
$3402.090.667.3Aug 19, 2026
$3451.440.458.8Aug 19, 2026
Rows × columns
6 × 5
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds

Column definitions for What a covered call collects across strikes: AAPL, about one month out, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
strike_label text 6 distinct values ($320, $325, $330…)
call_premium number 1.44 to 7.84 US dollars
premium_pct_of_spot number 0.45 to 2.47 percent
above_spot_pct number 0.9 to 8.8 percent
priced_on text 1 distinct value (Aug 19, 2026)

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 chain AS
(
    SELECT
        expiration_date,
        toFloat64(strike_price)                AS strike,
        formatDateTime(any(date), '%b %e, %Y') AS priced_on,
        avg(toFloat64(option_close))           AS premium,
        avg(toFloat64(underlying_close))       AS spot,
        sum(volume)                            AS contracts
    FROM global_markets.options_greeks
    WHERE underlying_symbol = 'AAPL'
      AND lower(option_type) IN ('call', 'c')
      AND date >= today() - 30
      AND date = (
              SELECT max(date)
              FROM global_markets.options_greeks
              WHERE underlying_symbol = 'AAPL'
                AND date >= today() - 30
          )
      AND days_to_expiry BETWEEN 20 AND 45
      AND iv_converged = 1
      AND volume > 0
    GROUP BY expiration_date, strike
),
busiest AS
(
    SELECT expiration_date
    FROM chain
    GROUP BY expiration_date
    ORDER BY sum(contracts) DESC
    LIMIT 1
)
SELECT
    concat('$', toString(round(strike, 2))) AS strike_label,
    round(premium, 2)                       AS call_premium,
    round(100 * premium / spot, 2)          AS premium_pct_of_spot,
    round(100 * (strike / spot - 1), 1)     AS above_spot_pct,
    priced_on
FROM chain
WHERE expiration_date IN (SELECT expiration_date FROM busiest)
  AND strike >= spot
  AND strike <= spot * 1.10
ORDER BY strike

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