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Median near-the-money IV, 20 to 45 days to expiry (June 2026)

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 2026-08-15, from Where to Get Historical Implied Volatility Data.

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Median near-the-money IV, 20 to 45 days to expiry (June 2026) — 8 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
symbolmedian_iv_pctcontract_day_count
NVDA38.5648
AMZN33.2773
MSFT321257
XOM29.6498
AAPL24.6965
KO19.8877
SPY15.410454
TLT10.42135
Rows × columns
8 × 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 Median near-the-money IV, 20 to 45 days to expiry (June 2026), derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
symbol text 8 distinct values (AAPL, AMZN, KO…)
median_iv_pct number 10.4 to 38.5 percent
contract_day_count number 498 to 10,454 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.

the exact SQL behind every number
SELECT
    underlying_symbol                                              AS symbol,
    round(100 * quantileDeterministic(0.50)(iv, contract_hash), 1) AS median_iv_pct,
    count()                                                        AS contract_day_count
FROM
(
    SELECT
        underlying_symbol,
        toFloat64(implied_volatility) AS iv,
        cityHash64(ticker)            AS contract_hash
    FROM global_markets.options_greeks
    WHERE underlying_symbol IN ('SPY', 'AAPL', 'MSFT', 'NVDA', 'AMZN', 'KO', 'XOM', 'TLT')
      AND date >= '2026-06-01'
      AND date <  '2026-07-01'
      AND iv_converged = 1
      AND volume > 0
      AND underlying_close > 0
      AND days_to_expiry BETWEEN 20 AND 45
      AND abs(toFloat64(strike_price) / toFloat64(underlying_close) - 1) < 0.05
)
GROUP BY symbol
ORDER BY median_iv_pct DESC

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