How close SPY closes to the nearest whole-dollar strike on monthly expirations

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 SPX vs SPY Options: Which One to Trade.

Rows × columns

13 × 4

Period covered

2025-07-18 to 2026-08-21

Computed

2026-08-22

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

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 2026-08-22, and the query below is what returned them.

SELECT
    toString(date)                                             AS expiration_date,
    formatDateTime(date, '%b %e, %Y')                          AS expiry_label,
    toString(round(toFloat64(close), 2))                       AS spy_close,
    round(abs(toFloat64(close) - round(toFloat64(close))), 2)  AS distance_to_strike_usd
FROM global_markets.stocks_daily_aggs
WHERE ticker = 'SPY'
  AND toDayOfWeek(date) = 5
  AND toDayOfMonth(date) BETWEEN 15 AND 21
  AND date >= today() - 400
ORDER BY date