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Expiration Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. ET: which root is trading

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 2026-10-24, from When Do SPX Options Stop Trading?.

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Expiration Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. ET: which root is trading — 2 rows by 5 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
et_timeam_settled_spx_contractsweekly_spxw_contractsam_settled_premarket_totalweekly_premarket_total
09:3002080220376724
09:4501687020376724
Rows × columns
2 × 5
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
Licence
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Formats
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What each column holds

Column definitions for Expiration Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. ET: which root is trading, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
et_time text 2 distinct values (09:30, 09:45)
am_settled_spx_contracts number every row is 0 count
weekly_spxw_contracts number 168,702 to 208,022 count
am_settled_premarket_total number every row is 0
weekly_premarket_total number every row is 376,724

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
    et_time,
    am_settled_spx_contracts,
    weekly_spxw_contracts,
    sum(am_settled_spx_contracts) OVER () AS am_settled_premarket_total,
    sum(weekly_spxw_contracts)    OVER () AS weekly_premarket_total
FROM
(
    SELECT
        formatDateTime(toStartOfInterval(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'), INTERVAL 15 MINUTE), '%H:%i') AS et_time,
        sum(if(startsWith(ticker, 'O:SPXW'), 0, volume)) AS am_settled_spx_contracts,
        sum(if(startsWith(ticker, 'O:SPXW'), volume, 0)) AS weekly_spxw_contracts
    FROM global_markets.options_minute_aggs
    WHERE (startsWith(ticker, 'O:SPX260515') OR startsWith(ticker, 'O:SPXW260515'))
      AND window_start >= toDateTime('2026-05-15 12:00:00', 'UTC')
      AND window_start <  toDateTime('2026-05-15 14:00:00', 'UTC')
    GROUP BY et_time
)
ORDER BY et_time
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