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The Wheel Strategy: How the Loop Works
The SPY $740 put split into intrinsic and time value, daily to Jun 15 2026series · 2026-07-31 · 31×3Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. Both legs of the wheel: SPY $740 put vs $740 call, same Jun 18 2026 expiryseries · 2026-07-31 · 31×3Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher.
How to Read an Option Chain, Column by Column
Where the trading happened: SPY contract volume by strike, August 21 2026 expiry, July 15 2026ranking · 2026-07-31 · 8×3Preview: 8 ranked values, smallest first. Median quoted bid and ask by strike: SPY calls expiring August 21 2026, regular session of July 15 2026table · 2026-07-31 · 7×5 Implied volatility by strike: SPY options expiring August 21 2026, as of July 15 2026ranking · 2026-07-31 · 11×3Preview: 11 ranked values, largest first. SPY option volume by time to expiration, July 15 2026ranking · 2026-07-31 · 5×4Preview: 5 ranked values, largest first. One expiration of the SPY chain: closing prices and delta by strike, August 21 2026 expiry, as of July 15 2026table · 2026-07-31 · 8×6
Covered Call vs Cash-Secured Put
Both positions at four moments: entry, three weeks in, the SPY high, and the June diptable · 2026-07-31 · 4×5 What each strike paid on May 1, 2026: SPY June 18 calls and puts side by sideranking · 2026-07-31 · 8×3Preview: 8 ranked values, largest first. Covered call vs cash-secured put: profit and loss per share, same strike, same expiryseries · 2026-07-31 · 29×3Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher.
American vs European Options Explained
Index roots vs ETF roots: contracts traded on July 6, 2026, with exercise styleranking · 2026-07-31 · 8×3Preview: 8 ranked values, largest first. July 6, 2026: contracts traded per 15 minutes, S&P 500 index options vs SPY optionsseries · 2026-07-31 · 27×3Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower.
0DTE Options Strategies: How They Trade
Same-day options volume by premium paid: whole US tape, July 10, 2026ranking · 2026-07-31 · 5×4Preview: 5 ranked values, largest first. Median gamma, theta and delta by time to expiry: near-the-money US options, July 15, 2026table · 2026-07-31 · 4×5 How July 10's same-day SPY contracts finished: expired at zero vs. settled with valueranking · 2026-07-31 · 2×4Preview: 2 ranked values, smallest first. SPY intraday travel: close, high and low against the open, June 1 to July 10, 2026series · 2026-07-31 · 28×5Preview: a 16-point series, roughly flat.
Trading US 0DTE Options From Japan
Same-day options volume by Japan Standard Time hour: all US-listed options, Friday July 10, 2026ranking · 2026-07-31 · 7×4Preview: 7 ranked values, largest first. Median bid-ask spread on SPY same-day contracts quoted $1-$10, by Japan Standard Time hour: July 10, 2026ranking · 2026-07-31 · 7×4Preview: 7 ranked values, smallest first. Japanese local time of each US session boundary, January against July: static illustrative reference for 2026series · 2026-07-31 · 4×4Preview: a 4-point series, roughly flat. The US trading day converted into Japan Standard Time: static illustrative reference, July 2026series · 2026-07-31 · 6×5Preview: a 6-point series, ending higher.
The Best and Worst Thousand Dollars of June 2026
The ride, session by session: daily turnover, last price, and the thousand-dollar position's markseries · 2026-07-26 · 10×6Preview: a 10-point series, ending higher. The loss pile by root: contracts down 90%+ from first print, share of the pile, and each root's ten-baggerstable · 2026-07-26 · 6×6 The most expensive ticket to zero: the priciest contract that ended at two cents or lessscalar · 2026-07-26 · 1×510 The entry receipt: the winner's first print, its second, and every penny print of its June life (one row)scalar · 2026-07-26 · 1×110.01 The full distribution: for every jackpot, thousands of near-total losses (put/call split included)scalar · 2026-07-26 · 1×1030,951 The five biggest first-print-to-last-print multiples of June, priced from both chairs (six liquid roots, 50+ trades)table · 2026-07-26 · 5×9 Calibration: every month of 2026 computed identically, SPY and NVDA, open-to-close and rangetable · 2026-07-26 · 6×6
NVDA: NVIDIA's Full June 2026, Tick by Tick
The whole NVDA tape in one row: prints, print sizes, and the quote censusscalar · 2026-07-26 · 1×1055.64 Where the contracts landed: call and put volume by strike buckettable · 2026-07-26 · 19×5 The spread by session: regular-hours median and time-weighted average (bps)series · 2026-07-26 · 21×5Preview: a 16-point series, roughly flat. FINRA off-exchange short volume by session: marked-short share and reported volumeseries · 2026-07-26 · 20×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. The off-exchange peak and trough, bounded (deduped per session)scalar · 2026-07-26 · 1×686.77 The mid-June short-interest printscalar · 2026-07-26 · 1×6310.13 The 21 sessions: regular-hours close, close-over-close change, full-day volumeseries · 2026-07-26 · 21×5Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. The rank receipt: NVDA's place, its lead over the next name, and the basis, as checked columnsscalar · 2026-07-26 · 1×54 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
Large single-session SPY declines by calendar year

Large single-session SPY declines by calendar year

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Large single-session SPY declines by calendar year — 11 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
yearsessions_down_2pctworst_day_pct
202024-10.94
202223-4.35
201814-4.18
20258-5.85
20216-2.44
20165-3.64
20195-3.01
20244-2.98
20262-2.58
20231-2.01
20170-1.77
the exact SQL behind every number
SELECT
    toYear(session_date)   AS year,
    countIf(ret_pct <= -2) AS sessions_down_2pct,
    round(min(ret_pct), 2) AS worst_day_pct
FROM
(
    SELECT
        session_date,
        c,
        lagInFrame(c) OVER (ORDER BY session_date ASC ROWS BETWEEN 1 PRECEDING AND CURRENT ROW) AS prev_c,
        if(prev_c > 0, round(100 * (c / prev_c - 1), 2), NULL)                                  AS ret_pct
    FROM
    (
        SELECT
            date                   AS session_date,
            toFloat64(max(close))  AS c
        FROM global_markets.stocks_daily_aggs
        WHERE ticker = 'SPY'
          AND date >= '2016-01-01'
          AND date < today()
        GROUP BY date
    )
)
WHERE ret_pct IS NOT NULL
GROUP BY year
ORDER BY sessions_down_2pct DESC, year ASC
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