Cash behind one contract: 100 shares at each name's close in the last week of July 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 2026-08-04, from What Happens If an Option Expires In the Money.

Rows × columns

8 × 2

Computed

2026-08-04

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

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 2026-08-04, and the query below is what returned them.

SELECT ticker,
       round(argMax(toFloat64(close), window_start) * 100 / 1000, 1) AS cash_per_contract_usd_thousands
FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
WHERE ticker IN ('SPY', 'MSFT', 'AAPL', 'NVDA', 'JNJ', 'CVX', 'KO', 'CAG')
  AND toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) >= toDate('2026-07-27')
  AND toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) <= toDate('2026-07-31')
  AND (toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60
       + toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))) BETWEEN 570 AND 959
GROUP BY ticker
ORDER BY cash_per_contract_usd_thousands DESC