One-month expected move priced by the option market

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 Straddle vs Strangle: Break-Evens and Margin.

Rows × columns

6 × 3

Computed

2026-08-22

Completeness

No missing values

Source

US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data

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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
    underlying_symbol                       AS symbol,
    round(100 * avg(implied_volatility), 1) AS implied_vol_pct,
    round(100 * avg(implied_volatility)
        * sqrt(avg(days_to_expiry) / 365), 2) AS expected_move_pct
FROM global_markets.options_greeks
WHERE date =
    (
        SELECT max(date)
        FROM global_markets.options_greeks
        WHERE underlying_symbol = 'SPY'
          AND date >= today() - 90
          AND iv_converged = 1
          AND volume > 0
    )
  AND underlying_symbol IN ('SPY', 'QQQ', 'AAPL', 'MSFT', 'NVDA', 'KO')
  AND iv_converged = 1
  AND volume > 0
  AND days_to_expiry BETWEEN 20 AND 45
  AND abs(toFloat64(strike_price) / toFloat64(underlying_close) - 1) < 0.05
GROUP BY underlying_symbol
ORDER BY expected_move_pct DESC