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 2026-09-20, from Which Stocks Have Weekly Options? How to Tell.
| symbol | contracts_thousands | non_monthly_expirations | expiry_weekdays |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPY | 10.3 | 34 | Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri |
| QQQ | 9.7 | 34 | Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri |
| MU | 6.9 | 19 | Mon Wed Fri |
| GLD | 6.5 | 33 | Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri |
| AMD | 5.2 | 20 | Mon Wed Fri |
| META | 5 | 20 | Mon Wed Fri |
| SNDK | 4.9 | 8 | Fri |
| SMH | 4.8 | 33 | Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri |
| IWM | 4.5 | 34 | Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri |
| SOXL | 4.3 | 20 | Mon Wed Fri |
| TSLA | 3.9 | 20 | Mon Wed Fri |
| ASML | 3 | 8 | Fri |
| INTC | 2.9 | 20 | Mon Wed Fri |
| MSFT | 2.9 | 20 | Mon Wed Fri |
| SLV | 2.9 | 20 | Mon Wed Fri |
| AVGO | 2.8 | 20 | Mon Wed Fri |
| LITE | 2.8 | 8 | Fri |
| STX | 2.8 | 8 | Fri |
| USO | 2.8 | 15 | Wed Fri |
| DELL | 2.7 | 8 | Fri |
| GOOGL | 2.5 | 20 | Mon Wed Fri |
| GS | 2.5 | 8 | Fri |
| NVDA | 2.5 | 19 | Mon Wed Fri |
| LLY | 2.4 | 8 | Fri |
| AAPL | 2.3 | 20 | Mon Wed Fri |
- Rows × columns
- 25 × 4
- Computed
- Completeness
- No missing values
- Source
- US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
- Licence
- Strasmore terms · free, no signup
What each column holds
| Column | Type | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
symbol |
text | 25 distinct values (AAPL, AMD, ASML…) | |
contracts_thousands |
number | 2.3 to 10.3 | count |
non_monthly_expirations |
number | 8 to 34 | |
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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This is the exact query behind the result above. Change a ticker, a date or a column and run it against the warehouse — no account, no key. The no-signup tier is smaller than the one this page was computed on; a query that reaches past it comes back saying which plan runs it.
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