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qqq_expiration_weekdays

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 2026-10-02, from when-do-ndx-options-expire.

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qqq_expiration_weekdays — 5 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
weekday_labellisted_expirationsexpirations_within_60d
Friday2919
Wednesday1715
Thursday1614
Tuesday1515
Monday1413
Rows × columns
5 × 3
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
Licence
Strasmore terms · free, no signup
Formats
JSON · CSV · the SQL below

What each column holds

Column definitions for qqq_expiration_weekdays, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
weekday_label text 5 distinct values (Friday, Monday, Thursday…)
listed_expirations number 14 to 29
expirations_within_60d number 13 to 19

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
    formatDateTime(expiration_date, '%W')                          AS weekday_label,
    countDistinct(expiration_date)                                 AS listed_expirations,
    countDistinctIf(expiration_date, days_to_expiry <= 60)         AS expirations_within_60d
FROM global_markets.options_greeks
WHERE underlying_symbol = 'QQQ'
  AND date >= today() - 90
  AND volume > 0
  AND iv_converged = 1
GROUP BY weekday_label
ORDER BY listed_expirations DESC
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