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What Time Do Options Start Trading?
SPY option volume, minute by minute into the 9:30 openseries · 2026-08-26 · 46×3Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. US option contract volume by Eastern-time half hourseries · 2026-08-26 · 21×3Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. Scheduled open and close on every upcoming half dayseries · 2026-08-26 · 2×6Preview: a 2-point series, roughly flat.
Weekly Market Recap: The Week in Numbers
Where the volume went: most dollars traded over the past weekranking · 2026-08-26 · 8×2Preview: 8 ranked values, largest first. The eleven S&P 500 sectors over the past weekranking · 2026-08-26 · 11×2Preview: 11 ranked values, largest first. Biggest stock losers over the past weekranking · 2026-08-26 · 7×3Preview: 7 ranked values, smallest first. The major index ETFs over the past weekranking · 2026-08-26 · 4×4Preview: 4 ranked values, largest first. Biggest stock gainers over the past weekranking · 2026-08-26 · 7×3Preview: 7 ranked values, largest first. Daily market breadth: advancers vs decliners each session (names trading $500M+)series · 2026-08-26 · 5×3Preview: a 5-point series, ending higher.
Upcoming Stock Splits Calendar
Upcoming US stock splits: announced, with a future effective datetable · 2026-08-26 · 30×5 Announced upcoming splits by directionranking · 2026-08-26 · 2×2Preview: 2 ranked values, smallest first. Announced stock splits by effective month: forward vs reverseseries · 2026-08-26 · 5×4Preview: a 5-point series, ending lower.
Upcoming Ex-Dividend Dates: Stocks This Week
Three household payers at their last ex-date: prior close, ex-morning open, and the payment for scaleseries · 2026-08-26 · 3×8Preview: a 3-point series, roughly flat. Who goes ex-dividend in the next 14 days: names, cadence and implied yield by size bandtable · 2026-08-26 · 4×5 Names going ex-dividend, day by day: the next seven days of declared recordsseries · 2026-08-26 · 5×5Preview: a 5-point series, roughly flat. Ex-dividend dates by calendar month: three-year average, quarterly vs monthly payersseries · 2026-08-26 · 12×4Preview: a 12-point series, ending higher. Thirteen big dividend and income funds: last ex-date, cadence, and the implied next ex-dateseries · 2026-08-26 · 13×8Preview: a 13-point series, ending higher. Forward-declared ex-dividend records on file: the receipt behind this calendarscalar · 2026-08-26 · 1×54,357 Every mega-cap ex-dividend event of the past six months: price path from the pre-ex closetable · 2026-08-26 · 5×6 Largest companies going ex-dividend in the next 14 days: amount, pay date, indicated yieldseries · 2026-08-26 · 12×8Preview: a 12-point series, ending higher.
Unusual Options Activity: Last Session
Market-wide options volume by session, with monthly expirations labelledseries · 2026-08-26 · 25×5Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. Calls or puts: the board's call and put contract volume on the same sessiontable · 2026-08-26 · 10×5 What follows a heavy options session: next-session absolute move vs. the same names on an ordinary daytable · 2026-08-26 · 5×6 What the session's contracts were made of: options volume by days to expiryranking · 2026-08-26 · 6×4Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first. Unusual options activity: last completed session vs. each underlying's own 20-session averagetable · 2026-08-26 · 10×8
Heston Model and the Volatility Smile
How far at-the-money implied volatility itself travelled (Jan to Jun 2026)ranking · 2026-08-26 · 6×4Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first. Near-the-money implied volatility by time to expiry (Jan to Jun 2026)ranking · 2026-08-26 · 6×3Preview: 6 ranked values, smallest first. SPY implied volatility by strike distance, 20 to 45 days to expiry (Jan to Jun 2026)ranking · 2026-08-26 · 13×4Preview: 13 ranked values, largest first. Put-side versus call-side implied volatility, 20 to 45 days (Jan to Jun 2026)ranking · 2026-08-26 · 6×4Preview: 6 ranked values, smallest first. Daily at-the-money implied volatility, SPY and NVDA (Apr to Jun 2026)series · 2026-08-26 · 62×3Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher.
Recent Stock Splits (Forward and Reverse)
Forward vs reverse splits executed in the last 45 daysranking · 2026-08-26 · 2×2Preview: 2 ranked values, largest first. Recent reverse stock splits (shares consolidated), last 30 daysranking · 2026-08-26 · 15×4Preview: 15 ranked values, largest first. Recent forward stock splits (shares multiplied), last 60 days, ETFs excludedranking · 2026-08-26 · 15×4Preview: 15 ranked values, smallest first.
Option Expiration Cycles Explained
Third Friday expirations over the next fourteen months, by underlyings listing themranking · 2026-08-26 · 14×3Preview: 14 ranked values, largest first. Monthly expirations beyond 300 days out, by underlyings listing themranking · 2026-08-26 · 14×2Preview: 14 ranked values, largest first. Listed expiration dates, one broad lineup against a thinner chainranking · 2026-08-26 · 6×4Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first. Every expiration listed on the AAPL chain, with contracts on each dateseries · 2026-08-26 · 23×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower.
Most Shorted Stocks Right Now, Measured
The receipts: universe size, filter bite, median crowding, and list churn at the latest printscalar · 2026-08-26 · 1×522,480 Largest short positions by shares: latest settlement, liquid namesranking · 2026-08-26 · 10×4Preview: 10 ranked values, largest first. Crowding leaders vs. their own price: about one month of sessionsseries · 2026-08-26 · 5×5Preview: a 5-point series, ending higher. GME through the January 2021 squeeze: the same three columns, settlement by settlementseries · 2026-08-26 · 10×4Preview: a 10-point series, ending lower. Today's top-3 crowding leaders, traced back eight settlementsseries · 2026-08-26 · 8×4Preview: a 8-point series, ending lower. Biggest days-to-cover increases, latest settlement vs. the prior printranking · 2026-08-26 · 8×4Preview: 8 ranked values, smallest first. Highest days to cover among liquid names: latest settlement on filetable · 2026-08-26 · 10×5
Stock Market Holidays 2026–2027: NYSE & Nasdaq
Upcoming US stock market holidays and early closesseries · 2026-08-26 · 12×6Preview: a 12-point series, ending higher. Recently-passed weekday closures, recovered from the SPY tapeseries · 2026-08-26 · 4×3Preview: a 4-point series, roughly flat. Regular trading sessions over the trailing yearscalar · 2026-08-26 · 1×3252 The closure calendar ahead, at a glancescalar · 2026-08-26 · 1×610
Is the Stock Market Open Today?
This calendar year's closures: already passed (counted from the tape) plus still ahead (from the calendar)table · 2026-08-26 · 2×5 SPY across recent weekends and holiday weekends: Friday's close vs. the reopening printseries · 2026-08-26 · 11×6Preview: a 11-point series, ending lower. Every upcoming NYSE closure and early close on the calendar feed, with a countdownseries · 2026-08-26 · 12×6Preview: a 12-point series, ending higher. Unscheduled closures on the tape: zero regular-session bars on an ordinary weekdayseries · 2026-08-26 · 5×4Preview: a 5-point series, roughly flat. Market status computed at this page's refresh: weekday check, holiday check, and the ET clockscalar · 2026-08-26 · 1×70 The most recent session on the tape: bar count, same-day SPY options prints, and the last half-day observedscalar · 2026-08-26 · 1×6204 Weekdays in the trailing year when stocks traded but no Treasury yield printedtable · 2026-08-26 · 2×2
Historical Volatility vs Implied Volatility
SPY: monthly implied volatility against the next month's realized volatilityseries · 2026-08-26 · 18×4Preview: a 16-point series, roughly flat. Average implied volatility against next-month realized volatility, by nametable · 2026-08-26 · 6×5 Annualized historical volatility over three lookback windowsranking · 2026-08-26 · 6×4Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first. AAPL realized volatility: 20-session against 60-session lookbackseries · 2026-08-26 · 73×3Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher.
Highest Implied Volatility Stocks Right Now
SPY, the same measurement: the market's calm benchmarkscalar · 2026-08-26 · 1×312.3 ATM implied volatility across every actively traded underlying, latest sessionscalar · 2026-08-26 · 1×5947 Highest ATM implied volatility: liquid single names and funds, latest sessiontable · 2026-08-26 · 12×5
Dividend Increases & Cuts This Week
Increases against cuts, by week of declaration (complete weeks only)series · 2026-08-26 · 26×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. Payers across their own share split: the raw change against the split-adjusted changeseries · 2026-08-26 · 9×7Preview: a 9-point series, ending lower. Increases, cuts and the typical raise this calendar year, by company size (bands use today's market value)table · 2026-08-26 · 4×6 Dividend increases declared in the last 7 days, largest companies first (capped at 12 rows)series · 2026-08-26 · 12×8Preview: a 12-point series, ending lower. Dividend cuts declared in the last 90 days, the deepest 14 first (one week is too thin for a table)series · 2026-08-26 · 14×6Preview: a 14-point series, ending higher.
Biggest Stock Gainers and Losers This Week
Biggest stock losers this week (names trading $1B+, leveraged/inverse ETFs excluded)ranking · 2026-08-26 · 10×4Preview: 10 ranked values, smallest first. The four major index ETFs this week, for contextranking · 2026-08-26 · 4×2Preview: 4 ranked values, largest first. Biggest stock gainers this week (names trading $1B+, leveraged/inverse ETFs excluded)ranking · 2026-08-26 · 10×4Preview: 10 ranked values, largest first.
Biggest Stock Movers This Month
The window and the screened universe behind every board on this pagescalar · 2026-08-26 · 1×520 Where every screened company landed: monthly returns by bucketranking · 2026-08-26 · 6×2Preview: 6 ranked values, smallest first. Eight household mega-cap names over the same windowranking · 2026-08-26 · 8×2Preview: 8 ranked values, largest first. Biggest stock losers this month (companies trading $1B+ over the window)ranking · 2026-08-26 · 10×3Preview: 10 ranked values, smallest first. The four major index trackers across the same window, rebased to the first openseries · 2026-08-26 · 20×5Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. Biggest stock gainers this month (companies trading $1B+ over the window)ranking · 2026-08-26 · 10×3Preview: 10 ranked values, largest first.
Biggest Stock Gainers & Losers of 2026
Excluded from the boards: 2026 splits large enough to fake a year-to-date moveseries · 2026-08-26 · 12×5Preview: a 12-point series, ending higher. The screen, stage by stage: how many names survive each filterranking · 2026-08-26 · 5×2Preview: 5 ranked values, largest first. Biggest stock losers of 2026: worst ten year to date among heavily traded namesranking · 2026-08-26 · 10×3Preview: 10 ranked values, smallest first. The four major index ETFs, year to date, over the same measured windowseries · 2026-08-26 · 4×4Preview: a 4-point series, ending lower. Biggest stock gainers of 2026: top ten year to date among heavily traded namesranking · 2026-08-26 · 10×3Preview: 10 ranked values, largest first. Year-to-date breadth: how the screened universe is distributed across return bucketsranking · 2026-08-26 · 8×3Preview: 8 ranked values, smallest first.
Stocks at 52-Week Highs and Lows
How far the whole screen sits below its 52-week highranking · 2026-08-26 · 6×4Preview: 6 ranked values, smallest first. Stocks at 52-week lows, ordered by year-to-date returnranking · 2026-08-26 · 5×3Preview: 5 ranked values, smallest first. Where five broad-market ETFs sit inside their own 52-week rangeranking · 2026-08-26 · 5×4Preview: 5 ranked values, smallest first. Stocks at 52-week highs, ordered by year-to-date returnranking · 2026-08-26 · 12×3Preview: 12 ranked values, smallest first. New 52-week highs against new lows, daily, over the past six weeksseries · 2026-08-26 · 31×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher.
Unusual Volume Stocks This Week, Measured
How the whole qualifying universe traded this week, bucketed by relative volumeranking · 2026-08-25 · 7×4Preview: 7 ranked values, smallest first. Persistence check: the eight leaders' daily relative volume across the five sessionstable · 2026-08-25 · 8×5 Highest relative volume this week: trailing 5 sessions vs. the prior 40, for names trading $500M+ in the weekseries · 2026-08-25 · 8×6Preview: a 8-point series, ending higher. The board leader, day by day: daily relative volume and open-to-close change (last 15 sessions)series · 2026-08-25 · 15×5Preview: a 15-point series, roughly flat. Wild multiples the dollar floor removes: highest relative volume among names trading under $500M this weekseries · 2026-08-25 · 6×5Preview: a 6-point series, ending higher.
META Implied Volatility: IV Now & Its History
META ATM implied volatility by time to expiration: latest sessionranking · 2026-08-25 · 4×3Preview: 4 ranked values, smallest first. META vs SPY and QQQ: median ATM implied volatility by month, since mid-2022series · 2026-08-25 · 50×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. META at-the-money implied volatility by session: trailing 90 daysseries · 2026-08-25 · 62×2Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher.
How Implied Volatility Is Calculated
Where the Newton step misbehaves: AAPL vega by strike zone, June 30, 2026ranking · 2026-08-25 · 6×3Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first. At the money implied volatility and solver convergence, eight names, June 30, 2026ranking · 2026-08-25 · 8×4Preview: 8 ranked values, largest first. One solve per contract: AAPL implied volatility by strike zone, June 30, 2026ranking · 2026-08-25 · 6×3Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first. One AAPL contract, re-solved every session into its July 17, 2026 expiryseries · 2026-08-25 · 29×3Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower.
Short Squeeze Candidates This Week
Squeeze-shaped mechanics: crowded shorts among liquid names, with a rising priceranking · 2026-08-24 · 12×4Preview: 12 ranked values, largest first.
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Trailing yield by sector fund: twelve months of distributions ÷ latest price

Trailing yield by sector fund: twelve months of distributions ÷ latest price

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Trailing yield by sector fund: twelve months of distributions ÷ latest price — 13 rows by 5 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
tickerpricettm_distributions_usdpaymentstrailing_yield_pct
AMLP54.84.0747.43
VNQ98.753.47343.52
XLU44.291.47943.34
XLRE45.231.40543.11
XLE61.891.89243.06
XLP86.12.19742.55
XLB52.481.06342.03
XLV167.432.53341.51
XLF58.140.80741.39
XLC113.171.43141.26
XLI186.472.05941.1
XLY118.171.11540.94
XLK190.050.97240.51
the exact SQL behind every number
WITH px AS (
    SELECT ticker, argMax(close, window_start) AS price
    FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
    WHERE ticker IN ('XLU','XLRE','XLE','XLF','XLP','XLV','XLI','XLB','XLC','XLY','XLK','VNQ','AMLP')
      AND window_start >= now() - INTERVAL 7 DAY
      AND (toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60
           + toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))) BETWEEN 570 AND 959
    GROUP BY ticker
),
dv AS (
    SELECT ticker, sum(cash_amount) AS ttm_div, count() AS payments
    FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
    WHERE ticker IN ('XLU','XLRE','XLE','XLF','XLP','XLV','XLI','XLB','XLC','XLY','XLK','VNQ','AMLP')
      AND ex_dividend_date > today() - INTERVAL 1 YEAR
      AND ex_dividend_date <= today()
      AND cash_amount > 0
    GROUP BY ticker
)
SELECT px.ticker AS ticker,
       round(px.price, 2) AS price,
       round(dv.ttm_div, 3) AS ttm_distributions_usd,
       dv.payments AS payments,
       round(dv.ttm_div / px.price * 100, 2) AS trailing_yield_pct
FROM px
INNER JOIN dv ON px.ticker = dv.ticker
ORDER BY trailing_yield_pct DESC
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