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Market Recap: Q2 2026
Listings, splits, and ex-dividend events by month through the quarterranking · 2026-07-16 · 3×4Preview: 3 ranked values, smallest first. Q2's corporate calendar (the June 30 filing-index gap disclosed)scalar · 2026-07-16 · 1×615,402 Q2 2026 returns for the four index ETFs, with Q1 recomputed live for contrastranking · 2026-07-16 · 4×4Preview: 4 ranked values, smallest first. The rank receipts: this quarter against every prior second quarter (rank 1 = best; self-excluded)table · 2026-07-16 · 2×6 Every second quarter on the tape: SPY and QQQ, recomputed identically by year (session counts shown)table · 2026-07-16 · 40×4
How Option Greeks Change Over Time
The stock both options tracked: SPY, May 1 to Jun 15 2026series · 2026-07-16 · 31×3Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. The $740 put's greeks, day by day (delta, gamma, theta, vega, IV%)series · 2026-07-16 · 31×7Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. Call vs put on the same $740 strike: mirror-image pricesseries · 2026-07-16 · 31×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. The $740 call's greeks, day by day (delta, gamma, theta, vega, IV%)series · 2026-07-16 · 31×7Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher.
How Markets Recover From Crashes
The S&P 500's underwater curve: worst drawdown from a prior high, by monthseries · 2026-07-16 · 127×2Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. The S&P 500's underwater record since 2016 (SPY, one scorecard)scalar · 2026-07-16 · 1×634.2 S&P 500 worst intra-year drawdown vs the year's price return, since 2016ranking · 2026-07-16 · 11×3Preview: 11 ranked values, largest first. How far below its high the S&P 500 sits: share of trading days since 2016ranking · 2026-07-16 · 5×2Preview: 5 ranked values, largest first.
Does Dollar-Cost Averaging Work?
$500 a month into SPY vs one lump sum, 2016 to 2026 (portfolio value, $ thousands)series · 2026-07-16 · 126×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. Five-year, $30,000 plans by start year: dollar-cost averaging vs lump sum ($ thousands)ranking · 2026-07-16 · 6×3Preview: 6 ranked values, smallest first. Same $500-a-month plan vs a lump sum across five stocks, 2016 to 2026 ($ thousands)ranking · 2026-07-16 · 5×3Preview: 5 ranked values, largest first.
Deep ITM LEAPS: Stock Replacement
One deep-ITM LEAPS vs 100 shares: cost, leverage, and deltaseries · 2026-07-16 · 3×7Preview: a 3-point series, ending higher. SPY vs the LEAPS call, both indexed to 100 in early June 2025series · 2026-07-16 · 33×3Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. The LEAPS call's delta climbing toward 1 as it goes deep in the moneyseries · 2026-07-16 · 33×2Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. Time value as a share of premium, and daily theta, month by monthseries · 2026-07-16 · 8×3Preview: a 8-point series, ending lower.
Covered Calls: Income on Your Shares
The same covered call at entry, the SPY peak, the dip, and the final sessiontable · 2026-07-16 · 4×5 Buy-and-hold SPY vs the covered call, per-share value over 7 weeksseries · 2026-07-16 · 31×3Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. The $740 call you sold, daily value over its 7-week lifeseries · 2026-07-16 · 31×2Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher.
The Options Collar: A Cheap Hedge
SPY through the June 2026 selloff, boxed by the collar's $740 floor and $760 capseries · 2026-07-16 · 8×4Preview: a 8-point series, roughly flat. The $740 put's delta deepening as it took over the downsideseries · 2026-07-16 · 8×2Preview: a 8-point series, roughly flat. The two collar legs: the $740 put (floor) and the $760 call (cap)series · 2026-07-16 · 8×3Preview: a 8-point series, ending lower.
Buying and Selling Put Options
One SPY $740 put's price over its life (expired Jun 18 2026)series · 2026-07-16 · 31×3Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. SPY's closing price over the same windowseries · 2026-07-16 · 31×3Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher.
Buying and Selling Call Options
One SPY $740 call, daily close over its 7-week lifeseries · 2026-07-16 · 31×2Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. The same call at four exits: price, multiple of premium, and P&L per contracttable · 2026-07-16 · 4×5 SPY vs the call, both indexed to 100 on May 1series · 2026-07-16 · 31×3Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher.
Buy When Others Are Fearful: The Data
Average S&P 500 forward return after fearful, greedy, and ordinary days (2024-2026)table · 2026-07-16 · 3×5 News sentiment coverage by year: how many tagged insights, and the share downbeatranking · 2026-07-16 · 3×3Preview: 3 ranked values, smallest first.
What Is Option Theta? Time Decay Explained
The SPY $740 call's daily time decay deepens into expiry (May–Jun 2026)series · 2026-07-15 · 31×2Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. At-the-money SPY time decay accelerates near expiry (2026-07-13)series · 2026-07-15 · 4×2Preview: a 4-point series, ending higher.
What Is Option Gamma? Delta's Accelerator
The $740 call's gamma climbs as expiry nearsseries · 2026-07-15 · 31×2Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. SPY call gamma peaks at the money (~30 days out, 2026-07-13)ranking · 2026-07-15 · 5×2Preview: 5 ranked values, largest first. At-the-money SPY gamma by time to expiry (2026-07-13)ranking · 2026-07-15 · 4×2Preview: 4 ranked values, largest first.
What Is Option Delta? A Plain-English Guide
The $740 call's delta follows SPY across the strikeseries · 2026-07-15 · 31×3Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. Call delta by moneyness: the S-curve (SPY, ~30 days out, 2026-07-13)ranking · 2026-07-15 · 5×2Preview: 5 ranked values, largest first.
What Is a Special Dividend? (With Examples)
How US dividends were scheduled in 2026, by payment cadence (Jan 1 - Jul 13)ranking · 2026-07-15 · 5×2Preview: 5 ranked values, smallest first. National Beverage (FIZZ): every special dividend since 2016, and no regular oneseries · 2026-07-15 · 7×2Preview: a 7-point series, ending higher. Large special dividends from well-known payers since 2012ranking · 2026-07-15 · 12×3Preview: 12 ranked values, largest first.
How Leveraged ETFs Work (and Why They Decay)
Every SOXS reverse split since 2020, and the running consolidation factorseries · 2026-07-15 · 5×3Preview: a 5-point series, ending higher. One semiconductor selloff, four funds: SOXX, USD, SOXL, SOXS on July 13, 2026ranking · 2026-07-15 · 4×2Preview: 4 ranked values, largest first. Growth of $100 in the 1x SOXX vs the 3x SOXL, Jan 2 to Jul 13 2026series · 2026-07-15 · 131×3Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher.
Does a Stock Go Up After a Split?
The best-known recent stock splits: the six months before vs the three months afterseries · 2026-07-15 · 7×6Preview: a 7-point series, ending lower. Every liquid forward split, 2016-2025: median 3-month return after the split vs the S&P 500, by periodtable · 2026-07-15 · 3×7
MU: The Biggest Tape of June 2026
The whole MU tape in one row: prints, print sizes, and the quote censusscalar · 2026-07-13 · 1×935.17 Where the contracts landed: call and put volume by strike bucketranking · 2026-07-13 · 16×4Preview: 16 ranked values, smallest first. The spread by session: regular-hours median in cents and basis pointsseries · 2026-07-13 · 21×5Preview: a 16-point series, roughly flat. FINRA off-exchange short volume: MU's June coverage and marked-short shareranking · 2026-07-13 · 16×3Preview: 16 ranked values, smallest first. The June settlement pair: mid-month and month-end short interestscalar · 2026-07-13 · 1×641.59 The 21 sessions: close, close-over-close change, full-day volumeseries · 2026-07-13 · 21×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. The rank receipt: MU's place, its lead over the next name, and the basisscalar · 2026-07-13 · 1×31 June side by side: the memory/storage basket, NVDA, and SPYtable · 2026-07-13 · 6×5 Month-end price of movement: the last at-the-money straddle of Junescalar · 2026-07-13 · 1×72 MU's options market in one row: totals, expiries, the put/call splitscalar · 2026-07-13 · 1×74.69 What June's MU coverage was about: the vendor's own article tags, countedranking · 2026-07-13 · 10×3Preview: 10 ranked values, largest first. June's MU-tagged articles: volume, the top publisher's share, co-tagsscalar · 2026-07-13 · 1×7195 MU's June on one row: open, close, extremes, turnover, and their receiptsscalar · 2026-07-13 · 1×121,009.72 MU's last six reported quarters on file: revenue, net income, diluted EPStable · 2026-07-13 · 6×5 MU's June SEC filings and the session that followed the quarterly 8-Kscalar · 2026-07-13 · 1×111 The whole US tape ranked by June 2026 regular-hours dollar volume (one reused-symbol listing excluded pending entity verification)ranking · 2026-07-13 · 10×3Preview: 10 ranked values, largest first. MU by month: annualized realized volatility, average session range, biggest single-day movetable · 2026-07-13 · 6×6 MU month by month, recomputed live: return, close, and regular-hours turnoverranking · 2026-07-13 · 6×4Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first.
SpaceX Joins the Nasdaq-100: The Index-Add Trade
July 6's matched volume by where it printed: the cross, continuous on-exchange, off-exchange (TRF)ranking · 2026-07-09 · 3×4Preview: 3 ranked values, largest first. The morning after: July 7, 2026 through 12:59 p.m. ET (window pinned by design; see data notes)scalar · 2026-07-09 · 1×10210 The add-eve receipts row: checkpoints, the last continuous trade, and the auction print itselfscalar · 2026-07-09 · 1×23165.95 July 6, 2026 in five-minute buckets: the slide, the late climb, and the volume underneathseries · 2026-07-09 · 78×3Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. Levine's three sessions on our tape: day volume, the closing cross, and the cross's share of the dayseries · 2026-07-09 · 3×7Preview: a 3-point series, roughly flat. Entity receipt: the old SPCX tape ends in April 2026, May is silent, SpaceX lists June 12series · 2026-07-09 · 5×6Preview: a 5-point series, ending higher. Every SPCX closing cross since the June 12 listing: size, share of the day, and the official close it setseries · 2026-07-09 · 15×6Preview: a 15-point series, ending lower.
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SPY option volume, minute by minute into the 9:30 open

SPY option volume, minute by minute into the 9:30 open

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SPY option volume, minute by minute into the 9:30 open — 46 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
et_timecontract_volumeactive_pct
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09:3079450100
09:317850100
09:3226796100
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09:3549108100
09:3618352100
09:3731470100
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09:4042035100
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09:4228877100
09:4339642100
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the exact SQL behind every number
WITH tape AS
(
    SELECT
        toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60
      + toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))              AS minute_of_day,
        countDistinct(toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))) AS days_traded,
        sum(volume)                                                         AS contracts
    FROM global_markets.options_minute_aggs
    WHERE startsWith(ticker, 'O:SPY')
      AND length(ticker) = 20
      AND window_start >= today() - 12
      AND window_start <  today() - 2
    GROUP BY minute_of_day
)
SELECT
    formatDateTime(toDateTime('2026-01-01 00:00:00') + grid.minute_of_day * 60, '%H:%i')         AS et_time,
    toUInt64(round(ifNull(t.contracts, 0) / greatest((SELECT max(days_traded) FROM tape), 1)))   AS contract_volume,
    round(100 * ifNull(t.days_traded, 0) / greatest((SELECT max(days_traded) FROM tape), 1), 1)  AS active_pct
FROM
(
    SELECT 555 + arrayJoin(range(46)) AS minute_of_day
) AS grid
LEFT JOIN tape AS t ON t.minute_of_day = grid.minute_of_day
ORDER BY grid.minute_of_day
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