Optionable underlyings by expiration pattern, trailing five weeks
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.
| bucket | underlyings |
|---|---|
| A. All underlyings with a traded contract | 5471 |
| B. Third Friday only (monthly) | 4784 |
| C. Weekly or quarterly, not every weekday | 681 |
| D. Weekly, every weekday Mon to Fri | 6 |
- Rows × columns
- 4 × 2
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
bucket |
text | 4 distinct values | |
underlyings |
number | 6 to 5,471 |
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
bucket,
count() AS underlyings
FROM
(
SELECT
underlying_symbol,
arrayJoin([
'A. All underlyings with a traded contract',
multiIf(non_monthly_dates = 0, 'B. Third Friday only (monthly)',
weekdays_used >= 5, 'D. Weekly, every weekday Mon to Fri',
'C. Weekly or quarterly, not every weekday')
]) AS bucket
FROM
(
SELECT
underlying_symbol,
uniqExactIf(expiration_date,
NOT (toDayOfWeek(expiration_date) = 5
AND toDayOfMonth(expiration_date) BETWEEN 15 AND 21)) AS non_monthly_dates,
uniqExact(toDayOfWeek(expiration_date)) AS weekdays_used
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
)
)
GROUP BY bucket
ORDER BY bucket