At-the-money SPY vega grows with time to expiry (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 Option Vega? Volatility Sensitivity.

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4 × 2

Computed

2026-08-13

Completeness

No missing values

Source

US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data

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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(days_to_expiry<=7,'0-7 days',days_to_expiry<=30,'8-30 days',
               days_to_expiry<=90,'31-90 days','90+ days') AS time_to_expiry,
       round(avg(vega), 3) AS avg_vega
FROM global_markets.options_greeks
WHERE date = '2026-07-13' AND underlying_symbol = 'SPY' AND abs(delta) BETWEEN 0.45 AND 0.55
GROUP BY time_to_expiry ORDER BY min(days_to_expiry)