Options volume by days to expiration: every US option traded 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.

Rows × columns

6 × 3

Computed

2026-08-11

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 2026-08-11, and the query below is what returned them.

SELECT multiIf(dte = 0, '0 DTE (expires today)',
               dte = 1, '1 DTE',
               dte <= 7, '2-7 DTE',
               dte <= 30, '8-30 DTE',
               dte <= 90, '31-90 DTE',
               '91+ DTE') AS bucket,
       round(sum(vol) / 1e6, 2) AS contracts_mm,
       round(100.0 * sum(vol) / sum(sum(vol)) OVER (), 1) AS pct_of_volume
FROM (
    SELECT toFloat64(volume) AS vol,
           dateDiff('day',
                    toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')),
                    toDateOrNull(concat('20', substring(ticker, length(ticker) - 14, 6)))) AS dte
    FROM global_markets.options_minute_aggs
    WHERE window_start >= '2026-07-08 04:00:00'
      AND window_start < '2026-07-09 04:00:00'
)
WHERE dte >= 0
GROUP BY bucket
ORDER BY min(dte)