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June 2026 SPY options volume by days-to-expiry at the time of the trade

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 2026-08-10, from When Do Options Expire? Friday 4 PM ET & Daily.

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June 2026 SPY options volume by days-to-expiry at the time of the trade — 4 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
dte_bucketcontracts_mmpct_of_month
0 days (expiry day)182.969.5
1 day left24.69.3
2-5 days left20.97.9
6+ days left34.913.2
Rows × columns
4 × 3
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds

Column definitions for June 2026 SPY options volume by days-to-expiry at the time of the trade, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
dte_bucket text 4 distinct values
contracts_mm number 20.9 to 182.9 count
pct_of_month number 7.9 to 69.5 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 dte_bucket,
       round(sum(vol) / 1e6, 1) AS contracts_mm,
       round(100.0 * sum(vol) / (sum(sum(vol)) OVER ()), 1) AS pct_of_month
FROM (
    SELECT multiIf(dte = 0, '0 days (expiry day)', dte = 1, '1 day left', dte <= 5, '2-5 days left', '6+ days left') AS dte_bucket,
           dte, vol
    FROM (
        SELECT dateDiff('day', toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')),
                        toDateOrNull(concat('20', substring(ticker, length(ticker) - 14, 6)))) AS dte,
               toFloat64(volume) AS vol
        FROM global_markets.options_minute_aggs
        WHERE window_start >= '2026-06-01 04:00:00'
          AND window_start < '2026-07-01 04:00:00'
          AND ticker LIKE 'O:SPY2%'
    )
    WHERE dte >= 0
)
GROUP BY dte_bucket
ORDER BY min(dte)

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