ladder_audit
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 2026-10-01, from reading-an-event-contract-ladder.
| expiry_date | band_prob_pct | leg_count | non_monotone_pairs |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-12 | 96.7 | 10 | 0 |
| 2026-06-26 | 92.4 | 12 | 0 |
| 2026-07-10 | 85.5 | 10 | 0 |
| 2026-07-17 | 82.9 | 12 | 0 |
| 2026-07-31 | 70.1 | 12 | 0 |
- Rows × columns
- 5 × 4
- Period covered
- to
- Computed
- Completeness
- No missing values
- Source
- US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
- Licence
- Strasmore terms · free, no signup
What each column holds
| Column | Type | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
expiry_date |
date | 2026-06-12 to 2026-07-31 | |
band_prob_pct |
number | 70.1 to 96.7 | percent |
leg_count |
number | 10 to 12 | count |
non_monotone_pairs |
number | every row is 0 |
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.
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WITH
pinned AS
(
SELECT max(date) AS as_of
FROM global_markets.options_greeks
WHERE underlying_symbol = 'SPY'
AND date <= '2026-05-29'
),
chain AS
(
SELECT
expiration_date,
strike_price,
option_close,
underlying_close
FROM global_markets.options_greeks
WHERE underlying_symbol = 'SPY'
AND date = (SELECT as_of FROM pinned)
AND iv_converged = 1
AND volume > 0
AND delta > 0.01
AND delta < 0.99
AND days_to_expiry BETWEEN 10 AND 75
AND toDayOfWeek(expiration_date) = 5
),
legs AS
(
SELECT
expiration_date AS expiry,
toUInt32(round(toFloat64(strike_price))) AS strike,
round(avg(toFloat64(option_close)), 4) AS call_price
FROM chain
WHERE abs(toFloat64(strike_price) / toFloat64(underlying_close) - 1) < 0.08
AND modulo(toUInt32(round(toFloat64(strike_price))), 10) = 0
GROUP BY expiry, strike
),
ranked AS
(
SELECT
expiry,
strike,
call_price,
row_number() OVER (PARTITION BY expiry ORDER BY strike) AS rn
FROM legs
),
pairs AS
(
SELECT
a.expiry AS expiry,
a.rn AS rn,
greatest((a.call_price - b.call_price) / (b.strike - a.strike), 0) AS p,
if(b.call_price > a.call_price, 1, 0) AS bad
FROM ranked AS a
INNER JOIN ranked AS b ON b.expiry = a.expiry AND b.rn = a.rn + 1
)
SELECT
toString(expiry) AS expiry_date,
round(100 * (argMin(p, rn) - argMax(p, rn)), 1) AS band_prob_pct,
toUInt32(count() + 1) AS leg_count,
toUInt32(sum(bad)) AS non_monotone_pairs
FROM pairs
GROUP BY expiry
HAVING count() >= 4
ORDER BY expiry
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