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SPY's expiration on every trading day: each near-term SPY expiry date, its weekday and volume

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 Which Stocks Have Daily Options?.

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SPY's expiration on every trading day: each near-term SPY expiry date, its weekday and volume — 11 rows by 4 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
expiry_dateexpiry_labelweekdaycontracts_mm
2026-08-19Aug 19Wednesday7.81
2026-08-20Aug 20Thursday1.53
2026-08-21Aug 21Friday2.19
2026-08-24Aug 24Monday0.35
2026-08-25Aug 25Tuesday0.18
2026-08-26Aug 26Wednesday0.14
2026-08-27Aug 27Thursday0.07
2026-08-28Aug 28Friday0.37
2026-08-31Aug 31Monday0.43
2026-09-01Sep 1Tuesday0.01
2026-09-02Sep 2Wednesday0.01
Rows × columns
11 × 4
Period covered
to
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 SPY's expiration on every trading day: each near-term SPY expiry date, its weekday and volume, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
expiry_date date 2026-08-19 to 2026-09-02
expiry_label text 11 distinct values (Aug 19, Aug 20, Aug 21…)
weekday date Friday to Wednesday
contracts_mm number 0.01 to 7.81 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 toString(expiry) AS expiry_date,
       formatDateTime(expiry, '%b %e') AS expiry_label,
       dateName('weekday', expiry) AS weekday,
       round(sum(vol) / 1e6, 2) AS contracts_mm
FROM (
    SELECT toDateOrNull(concat('20', substring(ticker, length(ticker) - 14, 6))) AS expiry,
           toFloat64(volume) AS vol
    FROM global_markets.options_minute_aggs
    WHERE window_start >= now() - INTERVAL 8 DAY
      AND ticker LIKE 'O:SPY2%'
)
WHERE expiry >= today() - 3 AND expiry <= today() + INTERVAL 12 DAY
GROUP BY expiry
ORDER BY expiry

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