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.
| symbol | median_iv_pct | contract_day_count |
|---|---|---|
| NVDA | 38.5 | 648 |
| AMZN | 33.2 | 773 |
| MSFT | 32 | 1257 |
| XOM | 29.6 | 498 |
| AAPL | 24.6 | 965 |
| KO | 19.8 | 877 |
| SPY | 15.4 | 10454 |
| TLT | 10.4 | 2135 |
- 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 | Type | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
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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