spy_put_daily_moves
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 2026-09-11, from stop-orders-on-options.
| move_bucket | contract_days | share_pct |
|---|---|---|
| under 5% | 396 | 16.7 |
| 5% to 10% | 339 | 14.3 |
| 10% to 20% | 591 | 25 |
| 20% or more | 1039 | 43.9 |
- Rows × columns
- 4 × 3
- Computed
- Completeness
- No missing values
- Source
- US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
- Licence
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What each column holds
| Column | Type | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
move_bucket |
text | 4 distinct values (10% to 20%, 20% or more, 5% to 10%…) | |
contract_days |
number | 339 to 1,039 | |
share_pct |
number | 14.3 to 43.9 | percent |
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 daily AS
(
SELECT
ticker,
date,
max(toFloat64(option_close)) AS put_close,
max(toFloat64(underlying_close)) AS spy_close,
max(toFloat64(strike_price)) AS strike,
max(days_to_expiry) AS dte
FROM global_markets.options_greeks
WHERE underlying_symbol = 'SPY'
AND lower(toString(option_type)) IN ('put', 'p')
AND date >= toDate('2026-06-29')
AND date < toDate('2026-08-01')
AND days_to_expiry BETWEEN 15 AND 50
AND volume > 0
GROUP BY ticker, date
),
chained AS
(
SELECT
date,
put_close,
spy_close,
strike,
dte,
lagInFrame(put_close, 1) OVER (PARTITION BY ticker ORDER BY date ASC ROWS BETWEEN UNBOUNDED PRECEDING AND CURRENT ROW) AS prev_put,
lagInFrame(date, 1) OVER (PARTITION BY ticker ORDER BY date ASC ROWS BETWEEN UNBOUNDED PRECEDING AND CURRENT ROW) AS prev_date
FROM daily
),
moves AS
(
SELECT abs(100 * (put_close / prev_put - 1)) AS move_pct
FROM chained
WHERE prev_put > 0
AND dateDiff('day', prev_date, date) <= 4
AND date >= toDate('2026-07-01')
AND dte BETWEEN 20 AND 45
AND abs(strike / spy_close - 1) < 0.02
)
SELECT
multiIf(move_pct < 5, 'under 5%',
move_pct < 10, '5% to 10%',
move_pct < 20, '10% to 20%',
'20% or more') AS move_bucket,
count() AS contract_days,
round(100 * count() / (SELECT count() FROM moves), 1) AS share_pct
FROM moves
GROUP BY move_bucket
ORDER BY min(move_pct)
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