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What Is a Short Squeeze? GameStop, Measured
Days to cover across liquid names: every ticker averaging 5M+ shares/day, latest settlement on filescalar · 2026-08-22 · 1×6721
What Is a Reverse Stock Split? Good or Bad?
2026 executed US stock splits: reverse vs. forwardscalar · 2026-08-22 · 1×3778 The most recent US reverse stock splits on recordseries · 2026-08-22 · 12×4Preview: a 12-point series, roughly flat. 2026's most common reverse split ratiosranking · 2026-08-22 · 10×2Preview: 10 ranked values, largest first. Where reverse-split companies stood a year later (splits executed 12-18 months ago)ranking · 2026-08-22 · 3×3Preview: 3 ranked values, largest first. ASST: daily closes around its 1-for-20 reverse split (execution date 2026-02-06)series · 2026-08-22 · 69×3Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. Reverse vs. forward splits by year, 2019 to todayranking · 2026-08-22 · 8×4Preview: 8 ranked values, smallest first. ASST's reverse split history on recordseries · 2026-08-22 · 2×6Preview: a 2-point series, roughly flat. What happened next: median move after a reverse split vs. SPY, splits executed 4-9 months agoseries · 2026-08-22 · 3×7Preview: a 3-point series, ending higher.
What Is a Good Dividend Yield in 2026?
Where US dividend payers sit: yield bands, $1B+ market cap, latest snapshotranking · 2026-08-22 · 7×4Preview: 7 ranked values, largest first. The 10-year Treasury yield, month by month: July 2021 to the latest reading on fileseries · 2026-08-22 · 61×3Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. Trailing yield by sector fund: twelve months of distributions over the late-July 2026 priceranking · 2026-08-22 · 11×4Preview: 11 ranked values, largest first. Intel (INTC): month-end price, quarterly dividend, and quoted yield, Jan 2021 to Jun 2024series · 2026-08-22 · 42×5Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. Current yield vs five-year dividend growth: ten household payers, July 2026ranking · 2026-08-22 · 10×4Preview: 10 ranked values, smallest first.
What Is a Calendar Spread in Options?
Near the money implied volatility by expiry band, three namesranking · 2026-08-22 · 6×4Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first. AAPL front band against back band implied volatility, trailing monthsseries · 2026-08-22 · 81×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. How often front volatility sat above back volatilityranking · 2026-08-22 · 5×4Preview: 5 ranked values, largest first. Theta and vega across expiry bands, near the money AAPLranking · 2026-08-22 · 6×3Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first.
What Is a Bid-Ask Spread? Real Costs
Typical quoted spread: six liquid names vs. two thin small caps, with the 100-share costranking · 2026-08-22 · 8×4Preview: 8 ranked values, smallest first. AAPL median quoted spread by 30-minute bucket (ET, extended hours included)series · 2026-08-22 · 32×2Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. The same curve at four checkpoints: premarket, the open, midday, the closeseries · 2026-08-22 · 4×2Preview: a 4-point series, ending lower. AAPL: the last recorded NBBO quote in our data windowscalar · 2026-08-22 · 1×70.117
WFC Dividend: Yield, History & Ex-Dates
WFC dividend snapshot: latest payout, annual rate, yield, and next ex-datescalar · 2026-08-22 · 1×70.5 WFC recent dividend payments: ex-dividend date and per-share amountseries · 2026-08-22 · 10×2Preview: a 10-point series, ending lower. WFC total dividends paid per year (regular dividends)ranking · 2026-08-22 · 7×2Preview: 7 ranked values, largest first.
Warrants vs Call Options: Key Differences
Recent forward stock splits and the share multiplierranking · 2026-08-22 · 12×4Preview: 12 ranked values, smallest first. Tesla basic and diluted share counts, quarter by quarterseries · 2026-08-22 · 12×5Preview: a 12-point series, ending lower. AAPL call contracts traded, by expiration dateseries · 2026-08-22 · 22×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. Basic and diluted share counts across eight large capsranking · 2026-08-22 · 8×4Preview: 8 ranked values, smallest first.
Verizon (VZ) Ex-Dividend Date 2026 & Yield
VZ dividend snapshot: latest payout, annual rate, yield, and next ex-datescalar · 2026-08-22 · 1×70.708 VZ recent dividend payments: ex-dividend date and per-share amountseries · 2026-08-22 · 10×2Preview: a 10-point series, ending lower. VZ total dividends paid per year (regular dividends)ranking · 2026-08-22 · 7×2Preview: 7 ranked values, smallest first.
Volatility Targeting for Position Sizing
SPY realised volatility by month against a 10% targetseries · 2026-08-22 · 72×4Preview: a 16-point series, roughly flat. What the lookback window costs in daily turnover (SPY, 10% target, 2x cap)ranking · 2026-08-22 · 4×4Preview: 4 ranked values, largest first. One 10% risk budget, six names, six different weightsranking · 2026-08-22 · 6×4Preview: 6 ranked values, smallest first. Weekly realised volatility and the weight it implied, Nov 2019 to Apr 2020series · 2026-08-22 · 25×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower.
V Dividend: Yield, History & Ex-Dates
V dividend snapshot: latest payout, annual rate, yield, and next ex-datescalar · 2026-08-22 · 1×70.67 V recent dividend payments: ex-dividend date and per-share amountseries · 2026-08-22 · 10×2Preview: a 10-point series, ending lower. V total dividends paid per year (regular dividends)ranking · 2026-08-22 · 7×2Preview: 7 ranked values, smallest first.
USB Dividend: Yield, History & Ex-Dates
USB dividend snapshot: latest payout, annual rate, yield, and next ex-datescalar · 2026-08-22 · 1×70.52 USB recent dividend payments: ex-dividend date and per-share amountseries · 2026-08-22 · 9×2Preview: a 9-point series, ending lower. USB total dividends paid per year (regular dividends)ranking · 2026-08-22 · 7×2Preview: 7 ranked values, largest first.
UNP Dividend: Yield, History & Ex-Dates
UNP dividend snapshot: latest payout, annual rate, yield, and next ex-datescalar · 2026-08-22 · 1×71.42 UNP recent dividend payments: ex-dividend date and per-share amountseries · 2026-08-22 · 10×2Preview: a 10-point series, ending lower. UNP total dividends paid per year (regular dividends)ranking · 2026-08-22 · 7×2Preview: 7 ranked values, smallest first.
UNH Dividend: Yield, History & Ex-Dates
UNH dividend snapshot: latest payout, annual rate, yield, and next ex-datescalar · 2026-08-22 · 1×72.32 UNH recent dividend payments: ex-dividend date and per-share amountseries · 2026-08-22 · 10×2Preview: a 10-point series, ending lower. UNH total dividends paid per year (regular dividends)ranking · 2026-08-22 · 7×2Preview: 7 ranked values, smallest first.
TXN Dividend: Yield, History & Ex-Dates
TXN dividend snapshot: latest payout, annual rate, yield, and next ex-datescalar · 2026-08-22 · 1×71.42 TXN recent dividend payments: ex-dividend date and per-share amountseries · 2026-08-22 · 10×2Preview: a 10-point series, ending lower. TXN total dividends paid per year (regular dividends)ranking · 2026-08-22 · 7×2Preview: 7 ranked values, smallest first.
TSLA Implied Volatility: IV Now & Its History
TSLA ATM implied volatility by time to expiration: latest sessionranking · 2026-08-22 · 4×3Preview: 4 ranked values, smallest first. TSLA vs SPY and QQQ: median ATM implied volatility by month, since mid-2022series · 2026-08-22 · 50×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. TSLA at-the-money implied volatility by session: trailing 90 daysseries · 2026-08-22 · 62×2Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher.
Trailing vs Forward Dividend Yield Explained
Trailing vs forward dividend yield: eight large payers, latest session pricetable · 2026-08-22 · 8×6 3M (MMM): trailing vs forward dividend yield at every month end after a payout resetseries · 2026-08-22 · 26×6Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. Realty Income (O): trailing vs forward dividend yield at every month end, two yearsseries · 2026-08-22 · 24×7Preview: a 16-point series, roughly flat. Distance between trailing and forward dividend yield, by payment scheduletable · 2026-08-22 · 4×7
Trading Options Inside an IRA: How It Works
Near the money put premium as a percent of the cash it locks upranking · 2026-08-22 · 5×3Preview: 5 ranked values, smallest first. Next declared ex dividend dates and the cash at stake per contractseries · 2026-08-22 · 2×4Preview: a 2-point series, ending higher. What one fully collateralized contract ties up, by underlyingranking · 2026-08-22 · 6×4Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first. Average call delta by strike versus spot, one week or less to expirationranking · 2026-08-22 · 6×3Preview: 6 ranked values, smallest first.
TMO Dividend: Yield, History & Ex-Dates
TMO dividend snapshot: latest payout, annual rate, yield, and next ex-datescalar · 2026-08-22 · 1×70.47 TMO recent dividend payments: ex-dividend date and per-share amountseries · 2026-08-22 · 10×2Preview: a 10-point series, ending lower. TMO total dividends paid per year (regular dividends)ranking · 2026-08-22 · 7×2Preview: 7 ranked values, smallest first.
The Rule of 16 in Options, and When It Breaks
Does a Monday move like three calendar days? SPY by weekdayranking · 2026-08-22 · 5×4Preview: 5 ranked values, smallest first. The largest single session against a typical one, by nametable · 2026-08-22 · 6×5 Implied volatility divided by 16, next to the realized daily moveranking · 2026-08-22 · 6×4Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first. How far SPY travels over one session, and over sixty threeranking · 2026-08-22 · 7×4Preview: 7 ranked values, smallest first.
The Low-Volatility Anomaly
Growth of $100: a calm name (KO), the market (SPY), a wild name (NVDA), weeklyseries · 2026-08-22 · 115×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. Annualized volatility vs total return, 25 large caps, calmest to wildest (~2 years)ranking · 2026-08-22 · 25×3Preview: 16 ranked values, smallest first. Volatility thirds: median return, and the range from worst to best name in eachtable · 2026-08-22 · 3×6
TGT Dividend: Yield, History & Ex-Dates
TGT dividend snapshot: latest payout, annual rate, yield, and next ex-datescalar · 2026-08-22 · 1×71.16 TGT recent dividend payments: ex-dividend date and per-share amountseries · 2026-08-22 · 10×2Preview: a 10-point series, ending lower. TGT total dividends paid per year (regular dividends)ranking · 2026-08-22 · 7×2Preview: 7 ranked values, smallest first.
T Dividend: Yield, History & Ex-Dates
T dividend snapshot: latest payout, annual rate, yield, and next ex-datescalar · 2026-08-22 · 1×70.278 T recent dividend payments: ex-dividend date and per-share amountseries · 2026-08-22 · 10×2Preview: a 10-point series, roughly flat. T total dividends paid per year (regular dividends)ranking · 2026-08-22 · 7×2Preview: 7 ranked values, largest first.
Survivorship Bias in Stock Data, Explained
Survivors-only average vs whole-cohort average, by starting yeartable · 2026-08-22 · 7×6 Symbols relisted under a new issuer after a long silenceranking · 2026-08-22 · 5×4Preview: 5 ranked values, smallest first. Symbols that printed a final daily bar, by yearranking · 2026-08-22 · 10×3Preview: 10 ranked values, smallest first. The January 2019 universe, grouped by what happened to each nameranking · 2026-08-22 · 9×4Preview: 9 ranked values, smallest first.
Street Name vs Holder of Record: Cede & Co
Average days from record date to pay date, eight large dividend payersranking · 2026-08-22 · 8×3Preview: 8 ranked values, largest first. Reported short interest and days to cover, latest settlement date on fileranking · 2026-08-22 · 8×4Preview: 8 ranked values, largest first. Coca-Cola quarterly dividends: calendar days from ex-dividend date to record dateseries · 2026-08-22 · 14×4Preview: a 14-point series, ending higher. Cash dividends by month: did the record date land on the ex-dividend date?series · 2026-08-22 · 39×5Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher.
Straddle vs Strangle: Break-Evens and Margin
How often SPY moved a given distance over 21 sessionsranking · 2026-08-22 · 8×2Preview: 8 ranked values, largest first. One-month expected move priced by the option marketranking · 2026-08-22 · 6×3Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first.
Stock Splits vs Fractional Shares Explained
AAPL prints by trade size, one to ten shares, June 10 2026 sessionranking · 2026-08-22 · 10×2Preview: 10 ranked values, smallest first. NVDA strike ladder and share price across its June 2024 splitseries · 2026-08-22 · 10×5Preview: a 10-point series, ending higher. Forward stock splits at liquid US names, past three yearsranking · 2026-08-22 · 12×3Preview: 12 ranked values, smallest first. Price weighting across ten large US names, latest closeranking · 2026-08-22 · 10×3Preview: 10 ranked values, largest first.
Stock Splits and the Dow Divisor, Explained
Price weight vs cap weight across a stand-in basketranking · 2026-08-22 · 12×4Preview: 12 ranked values, largest first. Forward and reverse splits executed per yearranking · 2026-08-22 · 11×3Preview: 11 ranked values, largest first. Splits of 4-for-1 or larger since 2020, well-known namesranking · 2026-08-22 · 17×4Preview: 16 ranked values, largest first.
Cost Basis After a Stock Split, Step by Step
Forward and reverse splits per calendar yearranking · 2026-08-22 · 11×3Preview: 11 ranked values, smallest first. The most common split terms of the past five yearsranking · 2026-08-22 · 12×3Preview: 12 ranked values, largest first. One hypothetical 100-share lot through every AAPL splitseries · 2026-08-22 · 3×5Preview: a 3-point series, ending lower. Every KO dividend of the past four years, one new lot each if reinvestedseries · 2026-08-22 · 16×3Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher.
Stock Market Hours: Open 9:30, Close 4:00 ET
Upcoming US stock market holidays and early closes, from the exchange calendarseries · 2026-08-22 · 12×6Preview: a 12-point series, ending higher.
Third Friday expirations over the next fourteen months, by underlyings listing them

Third Friday expirations over the next fourteen months, by underlyings listing them

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Third Friday expirations over the next fourteen months, by underlyings listing them — 14 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
expiry_month_startmonth_labelunderlyings_listing
2026-08-01Aug 20263735
2026-09-01Sep 20263689
2026-10-01Oct 20261564
2026-11-01Nov 20261392
2026-12-01Dec 20261960
2027-01-01Jan 20272245
2027-02-01Feb 2027913
2027-03-01Mar 20271462
2027-04-01Apr 202750
2027-05-01May 202772
2027-07-01Jul 202726
2027-08-01Aug 202742
2027-09-01Sep 2027318
2027-10-01Oct 202711
the exact SQL behind every number
WITH
(
    SELECT max(date)
    FROM global_markets.options_greeks
    WHERE date >= today() - 10
) AS chain_date
SELECT
    toString(toStartOfMonth(expiration_date))                AS expiry_month_start,
    formatDateTime(toStartOfMonth(expiration_date), '%b %Y') AS month_label,
    countDistinct(underlying_symbol)                         AS underlyings_listing
FROM global_markets.options_greeks
WHERE date = chain_date
  AND expiration_date >= chain_date
  AND days_to_expiry <= 430
  AND toDayOfWeek(expiration_date) = 5
  AND toDayOfMonth(expiration_date) BETWEEN 15 AND 21
  AND underlying_symbol NOT IN ('SPCX')
GROUP BY toStartOfMonth(expiration_date)
ORDER BY toStartOfMonth(expiration_date)
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