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Contracts in the chain vs contracts that traded, Aug 19 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 2026-09-24, from What Does Historical Tick Data Cost?.

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Contracts in the chain vs contracts that traded, Aug 19 2026 — 6 rows by 4 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
symbolcontracts_pricedcontracts_tradedtraded_pct
SPY51115111100
TSLA27542754100
MSFT19971997100
NVDA19921992100
AAPL15441544100
KO475475100
Rows × columns
6 × 4
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
Licence
Strasmore terms · free, no signup
Formats
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What each column holds

Column definitions for Contracts in the chain vs contracts that traded, Aug 19 2026, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
symbol text 6 distinct values (AAPL, KO, MSFT…)
contracts_priced number 475 to 5,111 count
contracts_traded number 475 to 5,111 count
traded_pct number every row is 100 percent

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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SELECT
    underlying_symbol                             AS symbol,
    count()                                       AS contracts_priced,
    countIf(volume > 0)                           AS contracts_traded,
    round(100 * countIf(volume > 0) / count(), 1) AS traded_pct
FROM global_markets.options_greeks
WHERE date = '2026-08-19'
  AND underlying_symbol IN ('SPY', 'AAPL', 'NVDA', 'MSFT', 'KO', 'TSLA')
GROUP BY underlying_symbol
ORDER BY contracts_priced DESC
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