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SPY option deltas against how often those contracts finished in the money

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 2026-08-13, from Brier Score: How to Grade a Forecast.

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SPY option deltas against how often those contracts finished in the money — 10 rows by 4 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
stated_bucketstated_pctfinished_itm_pctsample_size
0 to 10%5.23.717114
10 to 20%14.710.711108
20 to 30%24.820.98628
30 to 40%34.931.67359
40 to 50%4542.86805
50 to 60%5557.26659
60 to 70%6569.96558
70 to 80%74.980.86110
80 to 90%84.890.55481
90 to 100%9496.53914
Rows × columns
10 × 4
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
Licence
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Formats
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What each column holds

Column definitions for SPY option deltas against how often those contracts finished in the money, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
stated_bucket text 10 distinct values (0 to 10%, 10 to 20%, 20 to 30%…)
stated_pct number 5.2 to 94 percent
finished_itm_pct number 3.7 to 96.5 percent
sample_size number 3,914 to 17,114

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 settle AS
(
    SELECT
        date                             AS settle_date,
        any(toFloat64(underlying_close)) AS settle_px
    FROM global_markets.options_greeks
    WHERE underlying_symbol = 'SPY'
      AND date >= '2025-01-01'
      AND date <  '2026-08-01'
    GROUP BY date
),
scored AS
(
    SELECT
        toUInt8(floor(abs(toFloat64(g.delta)) * 10))    AS bucket,
        abs(toFloat64(g.delta))                         AS stated,
        startsWith(lower(toString(g.option_type)), 'c') AS is_call,
        if(is_call,
           s.settle_px > toFloat64(g.strike_price),
           s.settle_px < toFloat64(g.strike_price))     AS finished_itm
    FROM global_markets.options_greeks AS g
    INNER JOIN settle AS s ON s.settle_date = g.expiration_date
    WHERE g.underlying_symbol = 'SPY'
      AND g.date >= '2025-01-01'
      AND g.date <  '2026-06-01'
      AND g.expiration_date <= '2026-07-31'
      AND g.days_to_expiry BETWEEN 28 AND 35
      AND g.iv_converged = 1
      AND g.volume > 0
      AND abs(g.delta) > 0.02
      AND abs(g.delta) < 0.98
)
SELECT
    concat(toString(bucket * 10), ' to ', toString(bucket * 10 + 10), '%') AS stated_bucket,
    round(avg(stated) * 100, 1)       AS stated_pct,
    round(avg(finished_itm) * 100, 1) AS finished_itm_pct,
    count()                           AS sample_size
FROM scored
GROUP BY bucket
ORDER BY bucket

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