SPY option volume by expiration through one session, June 17 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 2026-08-22, from What Is VIX1D? The 1-Day Volatility Index.
| et_time | expiring_today_volume | expiring_next_day_volume | today_share_pct |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:30 | 501205 | 117747 | 81 |
| 10:00 | 647972 | 120685 | 84.3 |
| 10:30 | 852274 | 123721 | 87.3 |
| 11:00 | 502849 | 72857 | 87.3 |
| 11:30 | 374947 | 52973 | 87.6 |
| 12:00 | 303827 | 43970 | 87.4 |
| 12:30 | 332653 | 43479 | 88.4 |
| 13:00 | 397277 | 77578 | 83.7 |
| 13:30 | 383065 | 72219 | 84.1 |
| 14:00 | 1047415 | 276495 | 79.1 |
| 14:30 | 841744 | 240131 | 77.8 |
| 15:00 | 845164 | 252916 | 77 |
| 15:30 | 560087 | 454948 | 55.2 |
| 16:00 | 70844 | 357084 | 16.6 |
- Rows × columns
- 14 × 4
- Period covered
- to
- Computed
- Completeness
- No missing values
- Source
- US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds
| Column | Type | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
et_time |
date | 09:30 to 16:00 | |
expiring_today_volume |
number | 70,844 to 1,047,415 | count |
expiring_next_day_volume |
number | 43,479 to 454,948 | count |
today_share_pct |
number | 16.6 to 88.4 | percent |
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.
the exact SQL behind every number
SELECT
formatDateTime(
toStartOfInterval(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'), INTERVAL 30 MINUTE),
'%H:%i') AS et_time,
sumIf(volume, startsWith(ticker, 'O:SPY260617')) AS expiring_today_volume,
sumIf(volume, startsWith(ticker, 'O:SPY260618')) AS expiring_next_day_volume,
round(100 * toFloat64(sumIf(volume, startsWith(ticker, 'O:SPY260617')))
/ toFloat64(sum(volume)), 1) AS today_share_pct
FROM global_markets.options_minute_aggs
WHERE (startsWith(ticker, 'O:SPY260617') OR startsWith(ticker, 'O:SPY260618'))
AND window_start >= '2026-06-17 04:00:00'
AND window_start < '2026-06-18 04:00:00'
GROUP BY et_time
HAVING sum(volume) >= 50000
ORDER BY et_time
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