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Do Stock Splits Change Your Dividend?
Most recent forward split at ten large dividend payersranking · 2026-09-26 · 5×3Preview: 5 ranked values, largest first. Forward and reverse splits by year across US listingsranking · 2026-09-26 · 10×3Preview: 10 ranked values, smallest first. Days between declaration, ex-date, record and payableseries · 2026-09-26 · 16×5Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower.
Two Decades of Rising Dividends
How a two-decade streak compounds: Microsoft's annual dividend, year by yearranking · 2026-09-26 · 22×2Preview: 16 ranked values, smallest first. Dividend growth champions: 20+ straight years of raises, ranked by how many times over the payout grewranking · 2026-09-26 · 20×3Preview: 16 ranked values, largest first.
Covered Calls on Futures: How They Work
SPY dividends paid over the past three yearsseries · 2026-09-26 · 12×3Preview: a 12-point series, roughly flat.
When Covered Calls Trigger the Straddle Rules
KO ex dividend dates and the 121 day qualified dividend windowseries · 2026-09-26 · 12×5Preview: a 12-point series, ending higher.
Covered Call Screener: Build One in SQL
The covered call screen, ranked by annualised yield, last session of August 2026table · 2026-09-26 · 12×8 The same screen replayed monthly, and how the selected calls finishedseries · 2026-09-26 · 11×5Preview: a 11-point series, ending lower. Annualised call premium at 0.25 to 0.35 delta, eight liquid names, August 2026ranking · 2026-09-26 · 8×4Preview: 8 ranked values, smallest first. AAPL call premium yield by delta band, August 2026table · 2026-09-26 · 6×5
AAPL Dividend History: Splits and Raises
Every AAPL stock split and the running share countseries · 2026-09-26 · 3×5Preview: a 3-point series, ending higher. AAPL quarterly dividend by year, split adjusted, with the annual stepranking · 2026-09-26 · 14×3Preview: 14 ranked values, smallest first. AAPL dividends paid against free cash flow, by fiscal yearranking · 2026-09-26 · 13×4Preview: 13 ranked values, smallest first. Longest gaps between consecutive AAPL dividend payments, in yearsranking · 2026-09-26 · 6×4Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first. Every AAPL dividend year, as declared and split adjustedranking · 2026-09-26 · 15×4Preview: 15 ranked values, largest first.
DAX Options Settlement Price: ODAX vs ODAP
DAX option settlement clock: last trading time and settlement auction, CETtable · 2026-09-25 · 3×5
Why Open Interest Updates Only Once a Day
Busiest AAPL option contracts on Jun 16, 2026, by contract volumeranking · 2026-09-24 · 12×3Preview: 12 ranked values, largest first. AAPL reported short interest by settlement date, first half of 2026series · 2026-09-24 · 12×3Preview: a 12-point series, ending higher. How AAPL option volume accumulated through one session (Jun 16, 2026)series · 2026-09-24 · 13×3Preview: a 13-point series, ending higher. AAPL daily option contract volume, June 2026series · 2026-09-24 · 21×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower.
What Does Historical Tick Data Cost?
Where SPY trades printed, by reporting venue, Aug 19 2026ranking · 2026-09-24 · 12×3Preview: 12 ranked values, largest first. Trade messages vs quote messages, one session, five stocksranking · 2026-09-24 · 5×4Preview: 5 ranked values, largest first. SPY trade records by ET hour, Aug 19 2026ranking · 2026-09-24 · 16×2Preview: 16 ranked values, largest first. Daily trade-record counts, SPY and AAPL, August 2026series · 2026-09-24 · 21×3Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. Contracts in the chain vs contracts that traded, Aug 19 2026ranking · 2026-09-24 · 6×4Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first.
Market Making in Prediction Markets
Quoted spread and quoted size through one KO session, by New York clockseries · 2026-09-24 · 32×3Preview: a 16-point series, roughly flat. Call delta and put delta at matched strikes, SPY, 20 to 45 days outtable · 2026-09-24 · 11×5 Where traded contracts sat, session by session, into one SPY expiryseries · 2026-09-24 · 31×5Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. Implied volatility and delta sensitivity by time left, near-the-money SPYranking · 2026-09-24 · 6×4Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first.
Latency Models in HFT Backtests Explained
Trade prints per second through one full session, ET clockseries · 2026-09-24 · 78×2Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. How long a top of book quote survives, by latency budgetranking · 2026-09-24 · 9×2Preview: 9 ranked values, smallest first. Average distance the mid price travels over each latency horizonranking · 2026-09-24 · 4×2Preview: 4 ranked values, smallest first. Share of quotes replaced within 5 ms and 50 ms, by symbolranking · 2026-09-24 · 5×3Preview: 5 ranked values, largest first.
GLD Implied Volatility, Explained
Average implied volatility by delta bucket, trailing twelve monthsranking · 2026-09-23 · 5×3Preview: 5 ranked values, smallest first. 25 delta call minus put implied volatility, in volatility pointsseries · 2026-09-23 · 60×5Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. Percentile range of daily ATM implied volatility, five year windowranking · 2026-09-23 · 5×3Preview: 5 ranked values, smallest first. Monthly at-the-money 30 day implied volatility: GLD vs SPYseries · 2026-09-23 · 60×4Preview: a 16-point series, roughly flat.
DAX Futures Explained: FDAX, FDXM, FDXS
Quarterly third Friday volume against the trailing 20 session averageseries · 2026-09-23 · 14×5Preview: a 14-point series, ending higher. Share of a Germany fund's monthly volume printed after the 17:30 CET Frankfurt closeseries · 2026-09-23 · 12×3Preview: a 12-point series, ending lower. Where a listed Germany fund's volume sits on the New York clock (Jun to Aug 2026)ranking · 2026-09-23 · 8×3Preview: 8 ranked values, largest first.
The Open-Source TradingView Optimizer
Buy-and-hold SPY: the same rule, scored year by yearranking · 2026-09-22 · 9×2Preview: 9 ranked values, smallest first. In-sample rank versus out-of-sample Sharpe, same 24 cellsranking · 2026-09-22 · 24×4Preview: 16 ranked values, smallest first. The parameter surface: Sharpe by fast length, one line per slow lengthranking · 2026-09-22 · 6×4Preview: 6 ranked values, smallest first. A 24-cell moving-average grid on SPY, ranked by Sharperanking · 2026-09-22 · 24×2Preview: 16 ranked values, largest first.
Eurex Option Codes: ODAX, ODAP, OESX
One US options symbol, taken apart: busiest SPY contracts on 17 June 2026table · 2026-09-22 · 8×6 Distinct expirations traded per underlying, 17 June 2026ranking · 2026-09-22 · 5×2Preview: 5 ranked values, largest first. SPY option volume by days left to expiry, 17 June 2026ranking · 2026-09-22 · 5×3Preview: 5 ranked values, largest first. What one US equity option contract covers, 17 June 2026ranking · 2026-09-22 · 5×3Preview: 5 ranked values, largest first.
Do Mutual Funds Trade in the Primary Market?
Where an average session's share volume lands on the clock, September 1 to 15, 2026series · 2026-09-22 · 64×2Preview: a 16-point series, roughly flat. Average trades per session across six exchange-listed funds, August 2026ranking · 2026-09-22 · 6×2Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first. One session of prices in an exchange-listed fund, 30-minute ET bucketsseries · 2026-09-22 · 32×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. How far one exchange-listed fund's price travels within a session, August 2026series · 2026-09-22 · 21×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower.
Stock Returns After the First Fed Rate Hike
Lowest and highest SPY close in the twelve months after each first hiketable · 2026-09-20 · 3×5 SPY versus its hike-day close, week by week, three cycles alignedtable · 2026-09-20 · 53×4 SPY forward returns after the first hike of each cycletable · 2026-09-20 · 3×5 The 2s10s Treasury spread on hike day and twelve months laterranking · 2026-09-20 · 3×4Preview: 3 ranked values, largest first.
How Treasury Buybacks Work (and Why Not QE)
The on-the-run Treasury curve, mapped to the buyback maturity bucketsranking · 2026-09-20 · 7×3Preview: 7 ranked values, smallest first. The 2-year and 10-year on-the-run yields, June 1 through September 18, 2026series · 2026-09-20 · 76×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher.
How to Download FINRA Daily Short Volume Data
Short volume ratio on June 12, 2026 for six household namesranking · 2026-09-19 · 6×4Preview: 6 ranked values, smallest first. Symbols carried in each June 2026 daily short volume fileseries · 2026-09-19 · 21×5Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. Where AAPL's off-exchange short volume was reported on June 12, 2026ranking · 2026-09-19 · 5×3Preview: 5 ranked values, largest first.
Can You Make $1,000 a Day Day Trading?
Intraday range (high minus low, over the open), 2021 to 2025table · 2026-09-19 · 4×5 Share of sessions whose intraday range reached 1%, 2% and 4%ranking · 2026-09-19 · 4×4Preview: 4 ranked values, smallest first. Absolute close-to-close move, 2021 to 2025table · 2026-09-19 · 4×5 Capital at which $1,000 equals the whole, a tenth and a hundredth of the median daily rangetable · 2026-09-19 · 4×6 Daily return required for $1,000 a day, by account sizeranking · 2026-09-19 · 6×2Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first.
Where to Find Options Trade Data (OPRA Prints)
SPY option prints by exchange, May 15, 2025table · 2026-09-18 · 18×5 SPY option prints per half hour, May 15, 2025 (ET)series · 2026-09-18 · 14×5Preview: a 14-point series, ending higher. The ten largest single SPY option prints of May 15, 2025, one per contracttable · 2026-09-18 · 10×7 SPY implied volatility by strike, June 20, 2025 expiry, as of May 15, 2025table · 2026-09-18 · 29×4
What Is the CME CVOL Index? CVOL vs VIX
SPY at-the-money implied volatility by days to expiry, June 2026ranking · 2026-09-18 · 7×2Preview: 7 ranked values, largest first. SPY 30-day OTM strip, June 2026: implied volatility and relative strike weight under each methodranking · 2026-09-18 · 11×4Preview: 11 ranked values, largest first.
How Much Money Do You Need to Trade Options?
Five-wide AAPL call spreads: cost to buy vs. collateral to sell, priced at the May 19, 2025 closeranking · 2026-09-18 · 8×3Preview: 8 ranked values, largest first. Nightly margin requirement on one short AAPL 200 put, May 1 to June 13, 2025series · 2026-09-18 · 31×5Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. AAPL puts, June 20, 2025 expiration: FINRA margin vs. cash-secured requirement at the May 19, 2025 closetable · 2026-09-18 · 8×5 What one AAPL call cost by strike: June 20, 2025 expiration, priced at the May 19, 2025 closetable · 2026-09-18 · 8×5
Are 0DTE Options High Risk? What the Greeks Say
Delta change from a 1% SPY move, by distance from the strike (June 2026)ranking · 2026-09-18 · 9×3Preview: 9 ranked values, largest first. What an at-the-money SPY call cost, by days to expiry (June 2026)table · 2026-09-18 · 5×5 Gamma and theta per dollar of premium, by days to expiry (June 2026)series · 2026-09-18 · 5×5Preview: a 5-point series, ending lower. How the at-the-money call finished, June 2026 expiriesranking · 2026-09-18 · 5×2Preview: 5 ranked values, largest first. An at-the-money SPY call: prior close versus value at the expiry close, every June 2026 expiryseries · 2026-09-18 · 21×6Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower.
When Do VIX Options Expire? The Wednesday Rule
Underlyings with options expiring Wednesday, Sep 2, 2026, ranked by contracts tradedranking · 2026-09-17 · 12×3Preview: 12 ranked values, largest first.
The 7-5-3-1 Rule in Mutual Funds, Tested
The eight weakest seven-year windows on SPY, dividends counted as cashtable · 2026-09-17 · 8×6 A flat 500-a-month SIP against the same plan stepped up 10% a year, contributions onlytable · 2026-09-17 · 10×5 Rolling seven-year returns on SPY, one window per start monthseries · 2026-09-17 · 193×5Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. Where the seven-year windows landed: SPY windows by return band, dividends countedranking · 2026-09-17 · 5×3Preview: 5 ranked values, smallest first.
The 390 Rule in Options: Professional Status
SPY option trades by size, Sep 10 2026ranking · 2026-09-17 · 5×3Preview: 5 ranked values, largest first. SPY option trades per half hour, Sep 10 2026series · 2026-09-17 · 14×3Preview: a 14-point series, ending lower. One session in half-hour buckets: SPY one-minute bars and share volume, Sep 10 2026series · 2026-09-17 · 16×3Preview: a 16-point series, roughly flat. Share of option trades that were a single contract, six names, Sep 10 2026ranking · 2026-09-17 · 6×4Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first.
Nasdaq Closing Cross Explained: NOII and MOC
AAPL trade size by hour of the day (ET), September 10, 2026ranking · 2026-09-17 · 16×4Preview: 16 ranked values, largest first. Closing cross print as a share of full-day volume, eight Nasdaq-listed names, September 10, 2026series · 2026-09-17 · 8×4Preview: a 8-point series, ending lower. The six largest AAPL prints in the ten seconds from 4:00:00 p.m. ET, September 10, 2026table · 2026-09-17 · 6×6 AAPL trades per second around the 4:00 p.m. close, September 10, 2026series · 2026-09-17 · 20×4Preview: a 16-point series, roughly flat. Close-related sale condition codes in the exchange condition dictionaryranking · 2026-09-17 · 4×3Preview: 4 ranked values, smallest first.
How to Store Market Data PCAPs: Split, Compress
Retention arithmetic for a 2 TB per day feed at three compression ratios (illustrative inputs)series · 2026-09-17 · 3×4Preview: a 3-point series, ending lower.
How to Get Approved for Options Trading
The same short put as a five-point credit spread in a margin account (June 12, 2026 close, July 17 expiry)table · 2026-09-17 · 9×9 Selling one SPY put in a cash account: premium collected vs. cash held (June 12, 2026 close, July 17 expiry)table · 2026-09-17 · 9×5
Xetra Trading Hours and Holidays 2026–2027
Weekdays, weekday closures and Xetra sessions per calendar yeartable · 2026-09-16 · 2×5
ZM at-the-money IV by days to expiry, most recent week of data

ZM at-the-money IV by days to expiry, most recent week of data

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ZM at-the-money IV by days to expiry, most recent week of data — 5 rows by 4 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
dte_bucketatm_iv_pctcontract_countas_of
0 to 10 days53.8162Oct 22, 2026
11 to 30 days42.9149Oct 22, 2026
31 to 60 days44.783Oct 22, 2026
61 to 120 days4547Oct 22, 2026
over 120 days44.771Oct 22, 2026
the exact SQL behind every number
SELECT
    multiIf(days_to_expiry <= 10,  '0 to 10 days',
            days_to_expiry <= 30,  '11 to 30 days',
            days_to_expiry <= 60,  '31 to 60 days',
            days_to_expiry <= 120, '61 to 120 days',
                                   'over 120 days')   AS dte_bucket,
    round(100 * avg(toFloat64(implied_volatility)), 1) AS atm_iv_pct,
    count()                                            AS contract_count,
    formatDateTime(max(date), '%b %e, %Y')             AS as_of
FROM global_markets.options_greeks
WHERE underlying_symbol = 'ZM'
  AND iv_converged = 1
  AND volume > 0
  AND toFloat64(underlying_close) > 0
  AND abs(toFloat64(strike_price) / toFloat64(underlying_close) - 1) < 0.05
  AND date >= (
        SELECT max(date)
        FROM global_markets.options_greeks
        WHERE underlying_symbol = 'ZM' AND iv_converged = 1
      ) - 7
GROUP BY dte_bucket
ORDER BY min(days_to_expiry)
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