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Trading sessions over the trailing year, counted from the SPY tapescalar · 2026-08-22 · 1×7253 A full trading day on the SPY tape, split by session window (recent full-length session)scalar · 2026-08-22 · 1×15390 Single-name vs. ETF options at the 4:00 p.m. bell: AAPL and SPY options trades around the close (same session)series · 2026-08-22 · 2×6Preview: a 2-point series, ending higher. The most recent early-close session on the SPY tape, split by session windowscalar · 2026-08-22 · 1×13210 SPY volume by half hour on the early-close session, premarket through the shortened after-hours (ET clock)ranking · 2026-08-22 · 21×2Preview: 16 ranked values, smallest first. SPY volume by half hour, premarket through after-hours (same session, ET clock)table · 2026-08-22 · 32×2
SPY Implied Volatility: IV Now & Its History
SPY ATM implied volatility by time to expiration: latest sessionranking · 2026-08-22 · 4×3Preview: 4 ranked values, smallest first. SPY vs QQQ: median ATM implied volatility by month, since mid-2022series · 2026-08-22 · 50×3Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. SPY at-the-money implied volatility by session: trailing 90 daysseries · 2026-08-22 · 62×2Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher.
SPY Dividend Yield: Why It Trails the Index
Every SPY distribution over the last three years, against the share priceseries · 2026-08-22 · 12×5Preview: a 12-point series, ending lower. Days from ex-dividend date to pay date, last three yearsranking · 2026-08-22 · 3×4Preview: 3 ranked values, largest first. Trailing 12-month dividend yield: SPY against two open-end S&P 500 ETFsranking · 2026-08-22 · 3×3Preview: 3 ranked values, largest first. SPY by calendar year: price change against dividends collectedranking · 2026-08-22 · 7×3Preview: 7 ranked values, smallest first.
SPX vs SPY Options: Which One to Trade
SPY option volume by days to expiry, trailing six weeksranking · 2026-08-22 · 5×3Preview: 5 ranked values, largest first. Time value left in deep in-the-money SPY calls, against the dividend at stakeranking · 2026-08-22 · 16×4Preview: 16 ranked values, smallest first. How close SPY closes to the nearest whole-dollar strike on monthly expirationsseries · 2026-08-22 · 13×4Preview: a 13-point series, ending lower. What one contract controls: SPX, SPY and XSPranking · 2026-08-22 · 3×4Preview: 3 ranked values, largest first.
How split-adjusted price history works
Split multiples for large US stock splits since 2020ranking · 2026-08-22 · 10×3Preview: 10 ranked values, smallest first. Dollar volume and daily range across a large forward split (NVDA, 2024)series · 2026-08-22 · 19×4Preview: a 16-point series, roughly flat. Dividend adjustment factors on every KO ex-date since 2019series · 2026-08-22 · 30×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. Is the price file already adjusted? The pre and post close quotientranking · 2026-08-22 · 10×3Preview: 10 ranked values, largest first.
SPGI Dividend: Yield, History & Ex-Dates
SPGI dividend snapshot: latest payout, annual rate, yield, and next ex-datescalar · 2026-08-22 · 1×70.97 SPGI recent dividend payments: ex-dividend date and per-share amountseries · 2026-08-22 · 10×2Preview: a 10-point series, ending lower. SPGI total dividends paid per year (regular dividends)ranking · 2026-08-22 · 7×2Preview: 7 ranked values, smallest first.
SpaceX Lockup Expiration Date: How to Find It
Every year the SPCX symbol printed a regular sessionseries · 2026-08-22 · 7×4Preview: a 7-point series, ending higher. SPY volume on monthly expiration Fridays against the month's other sessionsseries · 2026-08-22 · 11×3Preview: a 11-point series, ending lower. SPCX regular sessions since June 2026: closing price and share volumeseries · 2026-08-22 · 49×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. Calendar days against regular trading sessions since the SPCX debutseries · 2026-08-22 · 11×3Preview: a 11-point series, ending higher. Where standard lockup conventions land, counted from the first SPCX sessionseries · 2026-08-22 · 4×5Preview: a 4-point series, ending higher.
S&P 500 Dividend Yield: How It's Measured
Trailing twelve month distribution yields: broad index, equal weight, dividend screens, sector fundstable · 2026-08-22 · 9×6 SPY distributions per share and price, both rebased to 100 at 2015ranking · 2026-08-22 · 11×3Preview: 11 ranked values, smallest first. Tracker distribution yield vs the 10 year Treasury, calendar year ends 2015-2025table · 2026-08-22 · 11×5 Cap weighted vs equal weighted dividend yield, by company sizetable · 2026-08-22 · 5×6
SO Dividend: Yield, History & Ex-Dates
SO dividend snapshot: latest payout, annual rate, yield, and next ex-datescalar · 2026-08-22 · 1×70.76 SO recent dividend payments: ex-dividend date and per-share amountseries · 2026-08-22 · 10×2Preview: a 10-point series, ending lower. SO total dividends paid per year (regular dividends)ranking · 2026-08-22 · 7×2Preview: 7 ranked values, smallest first.
Short Interest vs Short Volume: The Difference
Data points per dataset: AAPL, last 60 daysranking · 2026-08-22 · 2×2Preview: 2 ranked values, smallest first. Highest days to cover, latest settlement date (min 1M shares/day traded)ranking · 2026-08-22 · 10×3Preview: 10 ranked values, largest first. AAPL daily short volume ratio (last ~60 days)series · 2026-08-22 · 33×2Preview: a 16-point series, roughly flat. AAPL short interest vs. average daily volume, bi-monthly (last 2 years)series · 2026-08-22 · 47×3Preview: a 16-point series, roughly flat. AAPL days to cover at each settlement date (last 2 years)series · 2026-08-22 · 47×3Preview: a 16-point series, roughly flat.
SEC 30-Day Yield vs Distribution Yield
Trailing twelve-month yield and indicated yield, same funds, same dayranking · 2026-08-22 · 6×4Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first. One bond fund, two distribution yields, month by monthseries · 2026-08-22 · 37×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. The market rate backdrop: 3-month and 10-year Treasury yieldsseries · 2026-08-22 · 53×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. Two years of regular distributions: how many, and how variableranking · 2026-08-22 · 6×3Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first.
Schedule 13D vs 13G: Rules and Deadlines
Schedule 13D family filings per month, last two yearsseries · 2026-08-22 · 16×3Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. Companies that drew an initial 13D after 13G coveragetable · 2026-08-22 · 12×5 Most-filed 13D names of the last 18 monthsranking · 2026-08-22 · 4×4Preview: 4 ranked values, largest first.
SCHD vs VOO: Why the Dividend Yields Differ
SCHD and VOO annualized dividend yield: twelve month-ends through July 2026series · 2026-08-22 · 12×5Preview: a 12-point series, ending lower. Quarterly distributions per share: SCHD and VOO, 2025 Q1 through 2026 Q2ranking · 2026-08-22 · 6×3Preview: 6 ranked values, smallest first. Latest dividend yield: index heavyweights beside dividend-screen staplesranking · 2026-08-22 · 12×4Preview: 12 ranked values, largest first. Trailing twelve-month distribution yield: dividend funds beside the S&P 500 trackertable · 2026-08-22 · 7×5
SBUX Dividend: Yield, History & Ex-Dates
SBUX dividend snapshot: latest payout, annual rate, yield, and next ex-datescalar · 2026-08-22 · 1×70.62 SBUX recent dividend payments: ex-dividend date and per-share amountseries · 2026-08-22 · 10×2Preview: a 10-point series, ending lower. SBUX total dividends paid per year (regular dividends)ranking · 2026-08-22 · 7×2Preview: 7 ranked values, smallest first.
Rule 144 and Selling Restricted Stock
Recent US listings and their six-month Rule 144 marktable · 2026-08-22 · 15×5 Reported insider open-market sales by size, trailing yearranking · 2026-08-22 · 5×2Preview: 5 ranked values, largest first. The two Rule 144 volume tests, in millions of sharestable · 2026-08-22 · 6×5 Weekly share turnover across US companies, four-week averageranking · 2026-08-22 · 5×2Preview: 5 ranked values, smallest first.
RTX Dividend: Yield, History & Ex-Dates
RTX dividend snapshot: latest payout, annual rate, yield, and next ex-datescalar · 2026-08-22 · 1×70.73 RTX recent dividend payments: ex-dividend date and per-share amountseries · 2026-08-22 · 10×2Preview: a 10-point series, ending lower. RTX total dividends paid per year (regular dividends)ranking · 2026-08-22 · 7×2Preview: 7 ranked values, largest first.
Return of Capital in ETF Distributions
QYLD by calendar year: cash paid, average price, implied ratetable · 2026-08-22 · 5×5 Share price indexed to 100, three covered call ETFs, monthlyseries · 2026-08-22 · 59×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. Trailing year distribution rate, price change, and approximate total returnranking · 2026-08-22 · 7×4Preview: 7 ranked values, largest first. Cash distributions per share, month by monthseries · 2026-08-22 · 59×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower.
REIT Payout Ratio: FFO vs EPS Explained
Dividend as a percent of EPS: large equity REITs against every other US dividend payerranking · 2026-08-22 · 2×4Preview: 2 ranked values, largest first. Large equity REITs: dividend as a percent of earnings per share, latest snapshotranking · 2026-08-22 · 11×3Preview: 11 ranked values, largest first. Year-end dividend rate against twelve months earlier: how many large REITs raised or loweredtable · 2026-08-22 · 9×5 Realty Income (O): monthly dividend per share, January 2021 to the latest declared paymentseries · 2026-08-22 · 64×3Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher.
Ex-Dividend Date vs. Record Date: Same Day?
One real dividend: AAPL's most recent completed payout, all four datesscalar · 2026-08-22 · 1×90.27 Median waits along the dividend calendar (trailing 12 months, recurring US dividends)scalar · 2026-08-22 · 1×344,908 Calendar days from ex-dividend date to record date (trailing 12 months)ranking · 2026-08-22 · 4×3Preview: 4 ranked values, smallest first. Ex-date vs. record date by year: share identical, and the median gap in calendar daysranking · 2026-08-22 · 12×4Preview: 12 ranked values, smallest first. The T+1 cutover, week by week: share of dividends with ex-date = record date, April–July 2024ranking · 2026-08-22 · 18×3Preview: 16 ranked values, largest first. Dividends that went ex AFTER the record date: special vs. recurring, trailing 12 monthstable · 2026-08-22 · 2×6
Qualified Dividend Holding Period: 61 Days
Every 121-day window around a Coca-Cola ex-dividend dateseries · 2026-08-22 · 14×6Preview: a 14-point series, ending higher. How long after the ex-date the cash actually arrivesranking · 2026-08-22 · 10×3Preview: 10 ranked values, largest first. Days between consecutive ex-dividend dates, against the 121-day windowranking · 2026-08-22 · 6×3Preview: 6 ranked values, smallest first.
Quadruple Witching vs Triple Witching
SPY volume on quarterly expiration Fridays, against the average ordinary Fridayseries · 2026-08-22 · 13×4Preview: a 13-point series, ending higher. Share of SPY regular hours volume by half hour: expiration Friday vs the Friday afterseries · 2026-08-22 · 14×3Preview: a 14-point series, ending lower. Average absolute open to close move on SPY Fridays, expiration vs ordinary, by yearranking · 2026-08-22 · 10×4Preview: 10 ranked values, smallest first. Percent of regular hours volume printed in the 4:00 p.m. minute, six large listingsranking · 2026-08-22 · 6×3Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first.
QQQ Implied Volatility: IV Now & Its History
QQQ ATM implied volatility by time to expiration: latest sessionranking · 2026-08-22 · 4×3Preview: 4 ranked values, smallest first. QQQ vs SPY: median ATM implied volatility by month, since mid-2022series · 2026-08-22 · 50×3Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. QQQ at-the-money implied volatility by session: trailing 90 daysseries · 2026-08-22 · 62×2Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher.
QCOM Dividend: Yield, History & Ex-Dates
QCOM dividend snapshot: latest payout, annual rate, yield, and next ex-datescalar · 2026-08-22 · 1×70.92 QCOM recent dividend payments: ex-dividend date and per-share amountseries · 2026-08-22 · 10×2Preview: a 10-point series, ending lower. QCOM total dividends paid per year (regular dividends)ranking · 2026-08-22 · 7×2Preview: 7 ranked values, smallest first.
How Preferred Stock Dividends Work
Quarterly payers by how many different per-share amounts they paidranking · 2026-08-22 · 5×3Preview: 5 ranked values, smallest first. Days from the ex-dividend date to the pay date, past two yearsranking · 2026-08-22 · 6×3Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first. Monthly count of dividend declarations across the marketseries · 2026-08-22 · 36×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. Dividend declarations by stated payment schedule, past three yearsranking · 2026-08-22 · 5×3Preview: 5 ranked values, largest first.
Portfolio Dividend Yield: Weighted Average
Trailing 12-month dividend yield across ten household payersranking · 2026-08-22 · 10×4Preview: 10 ranked values, largest first. Two averages of the same five holdingsranking · 2026-08-22 · 2×2Preview: 2 ranked values, largest first. Dividend income from the five-name portfolio, by monthseries · 2026-08-22 · 12×3Preview: a 12-point series, ending higher. A five-name portfolio: share of value against share of incomeranking · 2026-08-22 · 5×4Preview: 5 ranked values, largest first.
Poor Man's Covered Call: How the Trade Works
Dividend cash paid on 100 shares over the trailing yearranking · 2026-08-22 · 6×3Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first.
PM Dividend: Yield, History & Ex-Dates
PM dividend snapshot: latest payout, annual rate, yield, and next ex-datescalar · 2026-08-22 · 1×71.47 PM recent dividend payments: ex-dividend date and per-share amountseries · 2026-08-22 · 10×2Preview: a 10-point series, ending lower.
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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