SPY put IV rises as strikes fall: the volatility skew (2026-07-13)

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 2026-08-13, from What Is Implied Volatility? IV, Explained.

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5 × 2

Computed

2026-08-13

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 2026-08-13, and the query below is what returned them.

SELECT multiIf(delta>-0.15,'far OTM put (|d|<0.15)',delta>-0.35,'OTM put (0.15-0.35)',
               delta>-0.55,'ATM (~0.50)',delta>-0.75,'ITM put (0.55-0.75)','deep ITM put') AS put_moneyness,
       round(avg(implied_volatility) * 100, 1) AS avg_iv_pct
FROM global_markets.options_greeks
WHERE date = '2026-07-13' AND underlying_symbol = 'SPY' AND option_type = 'P' AND days_to_expiry BETWEEN 20 AND 45
GROUP BY put_moneyness ORDER BY avg(delta)