contract_cost
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-is-options-trading.
| symbol | premium_usd | one_contract_usd |
|---|---|---|
| MSFT | 14.63 | 1462.67 |
| SPY | 12.11 | 1210.52 |
| NVDA | 8.74 | 873.85 |
| AAPL | 8.23 | 822.69 |
| KO | 1.58 | 157.61 |
- Rows × columns
- 5 × 3
- Computed
- Completeness
- No missing values
- Source
- US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
- Licence
- Strasmore terms · free, no signup
What each column holds
| Column | Type | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
symbol |
text | 5 distinct values (AAPL, KO, MSFT…) | |
premium_usd |
number | 1.58 to 14.63 | US dollars |
one_contract_usd |
number | 157.61 to 1,462.67 | US dollars |
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,
round(avg(toFloat64(option_close)), 2) AS premium_usd,
round(100 * avg(toFloat64(option_close)), 2) AS one_contract_usd
FROM global_markets.options_greeks
WHERE underlying_symbol IN ('AAPL', 'MSFT', 'NVDA', 'SPY', 'KO')
AND date BETWEEN '2026-06-01' AND '2026-06-30'
AND iv_converged = 1
AND volume > 0
AND days_to_expiry BETWEEN 25 AND 35
AND delta BETWEEN 0.45 AND 0.55
GROUP BY underlying_symbol
ORDER BY one_contract_usd DESC
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