AAPL front band against back band implied volatility, trailing months

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 2026-08-22, from What Is a Calendar Spread in Options?.

Rows × columns

81 × 4

Period covered

2026-04-24 to 2026-08-19

Computed

2026-08-22

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 2026-08-22, and the query below is what returned them.

SELECT
    toString(date)                                                                AS session_date,
    round(avgIf(implied_volatility, days_to_expiry BETWEEN 7 AND 25) * 100, 1)    AS near_iv_pct,
    round(avgIf(implied_volatility, days_to_expiry BETWEEN 60 AND 120) * 100, 1)  AS far_iv_pct,
    round((avgIf(implied_volatility, days_to_expiry BETWEEN 7 AND 25)
         - avgIf(implied_volatility, days_to_expiry BETWEEN 60 AND 120)) * 100, 1) AS near_minus_far_spread
FROM global_markets.options_greeks
WHERE underlying_symbol = 'AAPL'
  AND date >= today() - 120
  AND date <= today() - 2
  AND iv_converged = 1
  AND volume > 0
  AND abs(toFloat64(strike_price) / toFloat64(underlying_close) - 1) < 0.05
GROUP BY date
HAVING countIf(days_to_expiry BETWEEN 7 AND 25) > 0
   AND countIf(days_to_expiry BETWEEN 60 AND 120) > 0
ORDER BY date