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NVDA: NVIDIA's Full June 2026, Tick by Tick
Options session by session: contracts, the call/put split, and the put/call ratioseries · 2026-07-26 · 21×7Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. NVDA's options market in one row: totals, expiry structure, flagship contractsscalar · 2026-07-26 · 1×1821 The information flow in one row: volume, composition, and co-tagsscalar · 2026-07-26 · 1×12642 The month on one row: open, close, extremes, volume, and their receiptsscalar · 2026-07-26 · 1×25215.77 NVDA fundamentals census: balance sheets, income statements, cash flowsscalar · 2026-07-26 · 1×383 The whole US tape ranked by June 2026 regular-hours dollar volumeranking · 2026-07-26 · 12×4Preview: 12 ranked values, largest first. The five-session slide, bounded: every claim in the streak sentence as a checked columnscalar · 2026-07-26 · 1×65 The trailing six months, recomputed live: turnover, shares, and month returnranking · 2026-07-26 · 6×4Preview: 6 ranked values, smallest first.
How Ex-Dividend Dates Affect Options
Day before SPY's ex-date: time value left in deep-in-the-money calls, by days to expiryranking · 2026-07-17 · 3×4Preview: 3 ranked values, smallest first. SPY's quarterly dividends, 2025 through the June 2026 ex-dateseries · 2026-07-17 · 6×2Preview: a 6-point series, ending higher. Where the exercise-optimal calls concentrated on June 29, 2026ranking · 2026-07-17 · 10×4Preview: 10 ranked values, largest first. The early-exercise census: every ITM call on every June 30 ex-dividend payer, tested on June 29scalar · 2026-07-17 · 1×485 A near-the-money SPY call and put: delta across the June 18 ex-dividend dateseries · 2026-07-17 · 9×3Preview: a 9-point series, ending lower.
What Are LEAPS? Long-Dated Options
SPY, the call's delta, and its implied volatility at four life stagesseries · 2026-07-16 · 4×4Preview: a 4-point series, ending higher. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Market-wide options volume by session, with monthly expirations labelled

Market-wide options volume by session, with monthly expirations labelled

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Market-wide options volume by session, with monthly expirations labelled — 25 rows by 5 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
sessioncontracts_msession_typemonthly_expiry_msession_id
Jul 1670.7ordinary76.820260716
Jul 1776.8monthly expiration76.820260717
Jul 2063.5ordinary76.820260720
Jul 2156.8ordinary76.820260721
Jul 2255.4ordinary76.820260722
Jul 2365.4ordinary76.820260723
Jul 2470.7ordinary76.820260724
Jul 2764.3ordinary76.820260727
Jul 2858.7ordinary76.820260728
Jul 2966.3ordinary76.820260729
Jul 3066.3ordinary76.820260730
Jul 3175.5ordinary76.820260731
Aug 372.7ordinary76.820260803
Aug 478.9ordinary76.820260804
Aug 569.5ordinary76.820260805
Aug 663.2ordinary76.820260806
Aug 773.2ordinary76.820260807
Aug 1061.4ordinary76.820260810
Aug 1154.6ordinary76.820260811
Aug 1255.4ordinary76.820260812
Aug 1366.6ordinary76.820260813
Aug 1466ordinary76.820260814
Aug 1760.9ordinary76.820260817
Aug 1856.9ordinary76.820260818
Aug 1967.2ordinary76.820260819
the exact SQL behind every number
WITH tape AS (
    SELECT toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) AS d,
           sum(toFloat64(volume)) AS vol
    FROM global_markets.options_minute_aggs
    WHERE window_start >= toDateTime(today() - 45, 'America/New_York')
    GROUP BY d
),
ranked AS (
    SELECT d, vol, row_number() OVER (ORDER BY d DESC) AS raw_rn
    FROM tape
),
cal AS (
    SELECT d, vol, rn, sum(if(rn BETWEEN 2 AND 21, 1, 0)) OVER () AS baseline_sessions
    FROM (
        SELECT d, vol, row_number() OVER (ORDER BY d DESC) AS rn
        FROM ranked
        WHERE vol >= 0.75 * (SELECT quantileExact(0.5)(vol) FROM ranked WHERE raw_rn > 1)
    )
),
w AS (
    SELECT d, vol,
           toStartOfMonth(d) + toIntervalDay(((5 - toDayOfWeek(toStartOfMonth(d)) + 7) % 7) + 14) AS third_friday
    FROM cal
    WHERE rn <= 25
),
marked AS (
    SELECT d, vol,
           (d = max(if(d <= third_friday, d, toDate('1970-01-01'))) OVER (PARTITION BY toStartOfMonth(d)))
             AND (third_friday <= max(d) OVER ()) AS is_expiry
    FROM w
),
latest AS (
    SELECT d, vol, is_expiry,
           max(if(is_expiry, d, toDate('1970-01-01'))) OVER () AS last_expiry_d
    FROM marked
)
SELECT formatDateTime(d, '%b %e') AS session,
       round(vol / 1e6, 1) AS contracts_m,
       multiIf(is_expiry, 'monthly expiration', 'ordinary') AS session_type,
       round(max(if(d = last_expiry_d, vol, 0)) OVER () / 1e6, 1) AS monthly_expiry_m,
       toYYYYMMDD(d) AS session_id
FROM latest
ORDER BY d ASC
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