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The front of the curve: share of July 8, 2026 volume within a week of expiry

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.

as of scalar 1×3read in context →
pct week or less
61.8
pct 31 dte plus
18.7
total contracts mm
62.6
Rows × columns
1 × 3
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds

Column definitions for The front of the curve: share of July 8, 2026 volume within a week of expiry, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
pct_week_or_less number every row is 61.8 percent
pct_31_dte_plus number every row is 18.7 percent
total_contracts_mm number every row is 62.6 count

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 
SELECT round(100.0 * sumIf(vol, dte <= 7) / sum(vol), 1) AS pct_week_or_less,
       round(100.0 * sumIf(vol, dte >= 31) / sum(vol), 1) AS pct_31_dte_plus,
       round(sum(vol) / 1e6, 1) AS total_contracts_mm
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

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