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What Are LEAPS? Long-Dated Options
One SPY $600 LEAPS call's price over two years (expired Jan 16 2026)series · 2026-07-16 · 470×2Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. Theta (daily decay) against days to expiry, across the call's lifeseries · 2026-07-16 · 4×3Preview: a 4-point series, ending lower.
What Are Call Options?
One SPY $740 call vs SPY, indexed to 100 on May 1 (expired Jun 18 2026)series · 2026-07-16 · 31×3Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. The $740 call split into intrinsic and time value, five key sessionsseries · 2026-07-16 · 5×4Preview: a 5-point series, ending lower. SPY vs its $740 call, May 1 to June 2 (the SPY peak)ranking · 2026-07-16 · 2×4Preview: 2 ranked values, largest first.
Protective Puts: Portfolio Insurance
The SPY $740 put's value over its final weeks (expired Jun 18 2026)series · 2026-07-16 · 11×2Preview: a 11-point series, roughly flat. 100 SPY shares alone vs. the same shares with one $740 put held against themseries · 2026-07-16 · 11×3Preview: a 11-point series, ending lower. The SPY $760 call you could sell to finance the put (early June 2026)series · 2026-07-16 · 5×2Preview: a 5-point series, ending lower.
What Missing the Best Days Costs
SPY total return since 2016, after removing the best single daysranking · 2026-07-16 · 5×2Preview: 5 ranked values, smallest first. SPY's 20 best and 20 worst days since 2016, counted by yearranking · 2026-07-16 · 11×3Preview: 11 ranked values, smallest first. The ten biggest single-day gains for SPY since 2016ranking · 2026-07-16 · 10×2Preview: 10 ranked values, largest first.
Market Recap: Q2 2026
62 sessions in the quarter, verified from the tape, month by monthscalar · 2026-07-16 · 1×462 The 2s10s spread and the 10-year through Q2, dailytable · 2026-07-16 · 63×3 SPY median quoted spread on one labeled sample session per month of the quarter (second Wednesdays)series · 2026-07-16 · 3×4Preview: a 3-point series, ending higher. SPY sessions up vs down across the quarter, one cheap receiptscalar · 2026-07-16 · 1×436 June: whole-tape options contract volume and same-day-expiry share (one scan)scalar · 2026-07-16 · 1×31,477.9 May: whole-tape options contract volume and same-day-expiry share (one scan)scalar · 2026-07-16 · 1×31,394.6 April: whole-tape options contract volume and same-day-expiry share (one scan)scalar · 2026-07-16 · 1×31,386.9 Q2 month by month: April, May, June (SPY and QQQ, recomputed identically)ranking · 2026-07-16 · 6×4Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first. Q2 regular-hours dollar volume, whole tape (one reused-symbol listing excluded pending entity verification)ranking · 2026-07-16 · 8×3Preview: 8 ranked values, largest first. 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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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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