The SPY $740 call's implied volatility spiked when SPY fell, early June 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 2026-08-13, from What Is Option Vega? Volatility Sensitivity.

Rows × columns

31 × 2

Period covered

2026-05-01 to 2026-06-15

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 date,
       round(avg(implied_volatility) * 100, 1) AS iv_pct
FROM global_markets.options_greeks
WHERE ticker = 'O:SPY260618C00740000' AND date BETWEEN '2026-05-01' AND '2026-06-17' AND implied_volatility > 0.02
GROUP BY date ORDER BY date