The price of time: at-the-money SPY call price by DTE, midday July 8, 2026
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 2026-08-11, from DTE Meaning in Options: Days to Expiration.
| days_to_expiration | atm_call_price | premium_per_remaining_day |
|---|---|---|
| 0 DTE | 1.65 | 1.65 |
| 1 DTE | 2.92 | 2.92 |
| 2 DTE | 3.84 | 1.92 |
| 7 DTE | 6.09 | 0.87 |
| 14 DTE | 9.25 | 0.66 |
| 30 DTE | 13.85 | 0.46 |
| 54 DTE | 18.84 | 0.35 |
| 84 DTE | 24.08 | 0.29 |
| 176 DTE | 41.87 | 0.24 |
| 344 DTE | 68.34 | 0.2 |
| 891 DTE | 125.64 | 0.14 |
- Rows × columns
- 11 × 3
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
days_to_expiration |
text | 11 distinct values (0 DTE, 1 DTE, 14 DTE…) | |
atm_call_price |
number | 1.65 to 125.64 | US dollars |
premium_per_remaining_day |
number | 0.14 to 2.92 | 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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WITH spot AS (
SELECT avg(close) AS px
FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
WHERE ticker = 'SPY'
AND window_start >= toDateTime('2026-07-08 11:30:00', 'America/New_York')
AND window_start < toDateTime('2026-07-08 13:00:00', 'America/New_York')
),
chain AS (
SELECT toDateOrNull(concat('20', substring(ticker, length(ticker) - 14, 6))) AS expiry,
toFloat64(substring(ticker, length(ticker) - 7, 8)) / 1000 AS strike,
avg(close) AS opt_px
FROM global_markets.options_minute_aggs
WHERE ticker LIKE 'O:SPY2%'
AND substring(ticker, length(ticker) - 8, 1) = 'C'
AND window_start >= toDateTime('2026-07-08 11:30:00', 'America/New_York')
AND window_start < toDateTime('2026-07-08 13:00:00', 'America/New_York')
GROUP BY expiry, strike
HAVING sum(volume) > 0
AND abs(strike - (SELECT px FROM spot)) <= 3
AND dateDiff('day', toDate('2026-07-08'), expiry) >= 0
),
atm AS (
SELECT dateDiff('day', toDate('2026-07-08'), expiry) AS dte,
argMin(opt_px, (abs(strike - (SELECT px FROM spot)), strike)) AS call_price
FROM chain
GROUP BY expiry
),
targets AS (
SELECT arrayJoin([0, 1, 2, 7, 14, 30, 60, 90, 180, 365, 730]) AS target
),
nearest AS (
SELECT argMin(dte, (abs(dte - target), dte)) AS pick_dte,
argMin(call_price, (abs(dte - target), dte)) AS pick_px
FROM targets CROSS JOIN atm
GROUP BY target
)
SELECT concat(toString(pick_dte), ' DTE') AS days_to_expiration,
round(pick_px, 2) AS atm_call_price,
round(pick_px / greatest(pick_dte, 1), 2) AS premium_per_remaining_day
FROM nearest
GROUP BY days_to_expiration, atm_call_price, premium_per_remaining_day, pick_dte
ORDER BY pick_dte
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