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Top 25 weekly-options underlyings by distinct contracts traded, with expiration weekdays

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 2026-09-26, from Which Stocks Have Weekly Options? How to Tell.

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Top 25 weekly-options underlyings by distinct contracts traded, with expiration weekdays — 25 rows by 4 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
symbolcontracts_thousandsnon_monthly_expirationsexpiry_weekdays
SPY10.335Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri
QQQ10.235Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri
MU720Mon Wed Fri
GLD6.835Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri
AMD5.521Mon Wed Fri
META5.421Mon Wed Fri
SMH5.135Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri
SNDK5.19Fri
IWM4.535Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri
SOXL4.521Mon Wed Fri
TSLA3.921Mon Wed Fri
INTC3.121Mon Wed Fri
ASML39Fri
USO316Wed Fri
DELL2.99Fri
AVGO2.821Mon Wed Fri
LITE2.89Fri
MSFT2.821Mon Wed Fri
SLV2.821Mon Wed Fri
STX2.89Fri
GS2.79Fri
GOOGL2.621Mon Wed Fri
NVDA2.520Mon Wed Fri
AAPL2.421Mon Wed Fri
LLY2.49Fri
Rows × columns
25 × 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 Top 25 weekly-options underlyings by distinct contracts traded, with expiration weekdays, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
symbol text 25 distinct values (AAPL, AMD, ASML…)
contracts_thousands number 2.4 to 10.3 count
non_monthly_expirations number 9 to 35
expiry_weekdays text 4 distinct values (Fri, Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri, Mon Wed Fri…)

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
    underlying_symbol                                           AS symbol,
    round(uniqExact(ticker) / 1000, 1)                          AS contracts_thousands,
    uniqExactIf(expiration_date,
        NOT (toDayOfWeek(expiration_date) = 5
             AND toDayOfMonth(expiration_date) BETWEEN 15 AND 21)) AS non_monthly_expirations,
    arrayStringConcat(
        arrayMap(d -> arrayElement(['Mon', 'Tue', 'Wed', 'Thu', 'Fri'], d),
                 arraySort(groupUniqArray(toDayOfWeek(expiration_date)))),
        ' ')                                                    AS expiry_weekdays
FROM global_markets.options_greeks
WHERE date >= today() - 35
  AND date < today()
  AND expiration_date < today() + 60
  AND toDayOfWeek(expiration_date) <= 5
  AND volume > 0
  AND underlying_symbol NOT IN ('SPCX')
GROUP BY underlying_symbol
HAVING non_monthly_expirations > 0
ORDER BY contracts_thousands DESC, symbol
LIMIT 25
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