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Calls or puts: the board's call and put contract volume on the same session

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 2026-08-25, from Unusual Options Activity: Last Session.

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Calls or puts: the board's call and put contract volume on the same session — 10 rows by 5 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
tickercall_volume_kput_volume_kcall_share_pctsession_id
UTHR37.60.110020260819
MSOS84.81.69820260819
MDT62.92.19720260819
RXRX57.61.69720260819
PURR123.37.89420260819
NVAX39.43.49220260819
TEM11915.18920260819
ETHA553.5184.17520260819
MRK118.841.27420260819
MRNA184.2407.43120260819
Rows × columns
10 × 5
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 Calls or puts: the board's call and put contract volume on the same session, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
ticker text 10 distinct values (ETHA, MDT, MRK…)
call_volume_k number 37.6 to 553.5 count
put_volume_k number 0.1 to 407.4 count
call_share_pct number 31 to 100 percent
session_id number every row is 20,260,819

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 tape AS (
    SELECT toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) AS d,
           sum(toFloat64(volume)) AS vol
    FROM global_markets.options_minute_aggs
    WHERE window_start >= toDateTime(today() - 45, 'America/New_York')
    GROUP BY d
),
ranked AS (
    SELECT d, vol, row_number() OVER (ORDER BY d DESC) AS raw_rn
    FROM tape
),
cal AS (
    SELECT d, vol, rn, sum(if(rn BETWEEN 2 AND 21, 1, 0)) OVER () AS baseline_sessions
    FROM (
        SELECT d, vol, row_number() OVER (ORDER BY d DESC) AS rn
        FROM ranked
        WHERE vol >= 0.75 * (SELECT quantileExact(0.5)(vol) FROM ranked WHERE raw_rn > 1)
    )
),
day_root AS (
    SELECT substring(ticker, 3, length(ticker) - 17) AS root,
           toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) AS d,
           sum(toFloat64(volume)) AS vol,
           sumIf(toFloat64(volume), substring(ticker, length(ticker) - 8, 1) = 'C') AS calls,
           sumIf(toFloat64(volume), substring(ticker, length(ticker) - 8, 1) = 'P') AS puts
    FROM global_markets.options_minute_aggs
    WHERE window_start >= toDateTime(today() - 45, 'America/New_York')
    GROUP BY root, d
),
scored AS (
    SELECT r.root AS root,
           round(sumIf(r.vol, c.rn = 1) / avgIf(r.vol, c.rn BETWEEN 2 AND 21), 1) AS vol_ratio,
           sumIf(r.calls, c.rn = 1) AS calls,
           sumIf(r.puts, c.rn = 1) AS puts,
           maxIf(toYYYYMMDD(c.d), c.rn = 1) AS session_id
    FROM day_root r INNER JOIN cal c ON r.d = c.d
    WHERE c.rn <= 21
      AND r.root NOT IN ('SPCX')
      AND r.root NOT IN ('KORU','SOXL','SOXS','TQQQ','SQQQ','NVDL','NVDS','NVD','TSLL','TSLQ','TSLZ','SPXL','SPXS','UPRO','SPXU','LABU','LABD','FAS','FAZ','TNA','TZA','YINN','YANG','UDOW','SDOW','BOIL','KOLD','UCO','SCO','USD','SSO','SDS','QLD','QID','ERX','ERY','DRN','DRV','CURE','SOXY','MUU','SNXX','UVXY','SVXY','UVIX','SVIX','BULZ','WEBL','WEBS','DPST','DRIP','GUSH','AGQ','ZSL','BITX','ETHU','MSTX','MSTU','CONL','DUST','JNUG','JDST','NUGT')
    GROUP BY r.root
    HAVING sumIf(r.vol, c.rn = 1) >= 25000
       AND avgIf(r.vol, c.rn BETWEEN 2 AND 21) >= 5000
       AND countIf(c.rn BETWEEN 2 AND 21) >= 18
),
board AS (
    SELECT root, vol_ratio, calls, puts, session_id
    FROM scored
    ORDER BY vol_ratio DESC, root ASC
    LIMIT 10
)
SELECT root AS ticker,
       round(calls / 1000, 1) AS call_volume_k,
       round(puts / 1000, 1) AS put_volume_k,
       round(100.0 * calls / (calls + puts), 0) AS call_share_pct,
       session_id
FROM board
WHERE calls + puts > 0
ORDER BY call_share_pct DESC, ticker ASC

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