The most expensive ticket to zero: the priciest contract that ended at two cents or less
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 2026-07-26, from The Best and Worst Thousand Dollars of June 2026.
- Rows × columns
- 1 × 5
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
contract |
text | 1 distinct value (O:MU260612C01350000) | |
first_price |
number | every row is 10 | US dollars |
last_price |
number | every row is 0.01 | US dollars |
contracts_a_thousand_bought |
number | every row is 1 | count |
ending_value_usd |
number | every row is 1 | US dollars |
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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This is the exact query behind the result above. Change a ticker, a date or a column and run it against the warehouse — no account, no key. The no-signup tier is smaller than the one this page was computed on; a query that reaches past it comes back saying which plan runs it.
SELECT ticker AS contract,
round(first_px, 2) AS first_price,
round(last_px, 2) AS last_price,
toUInt32(floor(1000 / (first_px * 100))) AS contracts_a_thousand_bought,
round(floor(1000 / (first_px * 100)) * last_px * 100, 0) AS ending_value_usd
FROM (
SELECT ticker,
toFloat64(argMin(price, (sip_timestamp, price))) AS first_px,
toFloat64(argMax(price, (sip_timestamp, price))) AS last_px,
count() AS trades
FROM global_markets.options_trades
WHERE ((startsWith(ticker, 'O:MU') AND length(ticker) = 19) OR (startsWith(ticker, 'O:NVDA') AND length(ticker) = 21) OR (startsWith(ticker, 'O:TSLA') AND length(ticker) = 21) OR (startsWith(ticker, 'O:SPY') AND length(ticker) = 20) OR (startsWith(ticker, 'O:QQQ') AND length(ticker) = 20) OR (startsWith(ticker, 'O:AAPL') AND length(ticker) = 21))
AND sip_timestamp >= toDateTime64('2026-06-01 00:00:00', 9) AND sip_timestamp < toDateTime64('2026-07-01 00:00:00', 9)
GROUP BY ticker
HAVING count() >= 50 AND argMin(price, (sip_timestamp, price)) > 0
)
WHERE last_px <= 0.02 AND floor(1000 / (first_px * 100)) >= 1
ORDER BY first_px DESC, contract ASC
LIMIT 1
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