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Time value left in KO calls as they move deeper in the money

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 When Special Dividends Adjust Options.

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Time value left in KO calls as they move deeper in the money — 5 rows by 4 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
moneyness_bucketcontractsavg_time_value_usdavg_delta
Out of the money88720.370.18
0% to 2% in16881.030.63
2% to 5% in18100.650.79
5% to 10% in12000.470.88
10% or more in12090.460.93
Rows × columns
5 × 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 Time value left in KO calls as they move deeper in the money, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
moneyness_bucket text 5 distinct values (0% to 2% in, 10% or more in, 2% to 5% in…)
contracts number 1,200 to 8,872 count
avg_time_value_usd number 0.37 to 1.03 US dollars
avg_delta number 0.18 to 0.93

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
    multiIf(moneyness < 0,    'Out of the money',
            moneyness < 0.02, '0% to 2% in',
            moneyness < 0.05, '2% to 5% in',
            moneyness < 0.10, '5% to 10% in',
                              '10% or more in')  AS moneyness_bucket,
    count()                                      AS contracts,
    round(avg(time_value), 2)                    AS avg_time_value_usd,
    round(avg(delta), 2)                         AS avg_delta
FROM
(
    SELECT
        toFloat64(underlying_close) / toFloat64(strike_price) - 1  AS moneyness,
        toFloat64(option_close)
            - greatest(toFloat64(underlying_close)
                       - toFloat64(strike_price), 0)               AS time_value,
        delta                                                      AS delta
    FROM global_markets.options_greeks
    WHERE underlying_symbol = 'KO'
      AND delta > 0
      AND iv_converged = 1
      AND volume > 0
      AND strike_price > 0
      AND days_to_expiry BETWEEN 5 AND 35
      AND date >= today() - 400
      AND date <  today() - 3
)
GROUP BY moneyness_bucket
ORDER BY min(moneyness) ASC

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