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Implied volatility across strikes on the same SPY expiry

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 2026-10-05, from What Is Vomma? The Convexity of Vega.

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Implied volatility across strikes on the same SPY expiry — 7 rows by 4 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
moneynessimplied_vol_pctvs_chain_avg_ptscontracts
10%+ below spot34.1516.9631
5-10% below19.061.8822
2-5% below16.42-0.7631
within 2% of spot13.45-3.7458
2-5% above11.67-5.5129
5-10% above11.52-5.6613
10%+ above spot14.02-3.175
Rows × columns
7 × 4
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds

Column definitions for Implied volatility across strikes on the same SPY expiry, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
moneyness text 7 distinct values
implied_vol_pct number 11.52 to 34.15 percent
vs_chain_avg_pts number -5.66 to 16.96
contracts number 5 to 58 count

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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WITH
    (
        SELECT max(date)
        FROM global_markets.options_greeks
        WHERE underlying_symbol = 'SPY'
    ) AS snap_date,
    (
        SELECT argMin(expiration_date, abs(toInt32(days_to_expiry) - 35))
        FROM global_markets.options_greeks
        WHERE underlying_symbol = 'SPY'
          AND date = snap_date
          AND iv_converged = 1
          AND volume > 0
          AND days_to_expiry BETWEEN 20 AND 60
    ) AS expiry
SELECT
    strike_band                                        AS moneyness,
    round(100 * avg_iv, 2)                             AS implied_vol_pct,
    round(100 * avg_iv - 100 * avg(avg_iv) OVER (), 2) AS vs_chain_avg_pts,
    contracts
FROM
(
    SELECT
        multiIf(k < -0.10, '10%+ below spot',
                k < -0.05, '5-10% below',
                k < -0.02, '2-5% below',
                k <= 0.02, 'within 2% of spot',
                k <= 0.05, '2-5% above',
                k <= 0.10, '5-10% above',
                           '10%+ above spot')     AS strike_band,
        multiIf(k < -0.10, 1, k < -0.05, 2, k < -0.02, 3,
                k <= 0.02, 4, k <= 0.05, 5, k <= 0.10, 6, 7) AS band_sort,
        avg(sigma)                                 AS avg_iv,
        count()                                    AS contracts
    FROM
    (
        SELECT
            toFloat64(strike_price) / toFloat64(underlying_close) - 1 AS k,
            toFloat64(implied_volatility)                             AS sigma
        FROM global_markets.options_greeks
        WHERE underlying_symbol = 'SPY'
          AND date = snap_date
          AND expiration_date = expiry
          AND iv_converged = 1
          AND volume > 0
          AND vega > 0
          AND days_to_expiry >= 7
          AND implied_volatility BETWEEN 0.02 AND 3.0
    )
    GROUP BY strike_band, band_sort
)
ORDER BY band_sort
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