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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.
Unusual Options Activity: Last Session
Market-wide options volume by session, with monthly expirations labelledseries · 2026-08-25 · 25×5Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. Calls or puts: the board's call and put contract volume on the same sessiontable · 2026-08-25 · 10×5 What follows a heavy options session: next-session absolute move vs. the same names on an ordinary daytable · 2026-08-25 · 5×6 What the session's contracts were made of: options volume by days to expiryranking · 2026-08-25 · 6×4Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first. Unusual options activity: last completed session vs. each underlying's own 20-session averagetable · 2026-08-25 · 10×8
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.
Highest Implied Volatility Stocks Right Now
SPY, the same measurement: the market's calm benchmarkscalar · 2026-08-25 · 1×312.3 ATM implied volatility across every actively traded underlying, latest sessionscalar · 2026-08-25 · 1×5947 Highest ATM implied volatility: liquid single names and funds, latest sessiontable · 2026-08-25 · 12×5
How Earnings Move Option Greeks
The Tesla $400 May call through its Q1 earnings (Apr 8 - May 6 2026)series · 2026-08-24 · 21×5Preview: a 16-point series, roughly flat. Tesla's 8-K filings across Q1 2026 (EDGAR index)table · 2026-08-24 · 4×3 Near-the-money Tesla May-expiry implied volatility around the printseries · 2026-08-24 · 21×3Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher.
AMZN Implied Volatility: IV Now & Its History
AMZN ATM implied volatility by time to expiration: latest sessionranking · 2026-08-24 · 4×3Preview: 4 ranked values, smallest first. AMZN vs SPY and QQQ: median ATM implied volatility by month, since mid-2022series · 2026-08-24 · 50×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. AMZN at-the-money implied volatility by session: trailing 90 daysseries · 2026-08-24 · 62×2Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher.
Why Index Options Are Taxed 60/40: Section 1256
Average daily options volume: Section 1256 names against equity optionsranking · 2026-08-22 · 4×3Preview: 4 ranked values, largest first. Share of contract volume by days to expiry, SPX and SPYranking · 2026-08-22 · 5×3Preview: 5 ranked values, largest first.
Which Stocks Have Daily Options?
Monday, Wednesday, Friday expirations: distinct option roots carrying an expiry on each weekdayseries · 2026-08-22 · 5×3Preview: a 5-point series, ending higher. Daily options vs weekly options: upcoming expiration dates for six household tickersranking · 2026-08-22 · 6×3Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first. SPY's expiration on every trading day: each near-term SPY expiry date, its weekday and volumeseries · 2026-08-22 · 11×4Preview: a 11-point series, ending lower. Which tickers carry the most upcoming expirations: option roots by distinct expiration dates in the next six weeksranking · 2026-08-22 · 20×3Preview: 16 ranked values, largest first.
When Special Dividends Adjust Options
Time value left in KO calls as they move deeper in the moneyranking · 2026-08-22 · 5×4Preview: 5 ranked values, largest first. One time distributions by size, measured against the ex date closing priceranking · 2026-08-22 · 6×3Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first. How big each kind of cash distribution is, as a share of the stock priceranking · 2026-08-22 · 5×4Preview: 5 ranked values, largest first. One time cash distributions per calendar year, and their share of all payoutsranking · 2026-08-22 · 9×3Preview: 9 ranked values, largest first.
When Short Options Get Assigned Early
Time value left in AAPL contracts by depth in the moneytable · 2026-08-22 · 5×5 AAPL calls 1 to 5 percent in the money, by days left to expiryranking · 2026-08-22 · 6×4Preview: 6 ranked values, smallest first. Latest cash dividend per share, and what it is worth against the stockseries · 2026-08-22 · 6×4Preview: a 6-point series, ending lower. Put versus call implied volatility, near the money, 20 to 45 days outranking · 2026-08-22 · 5×4Preview: 5 ranked values, smallest first.
What Is a Calendar Spread in Options?
Near the money implied volatility by expiry band, three namesranking · 2026-08-22 · 6×4Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first. AAPL front band against back band implied volatility, trailing monthsseries · 2026-08-22 · 81×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. How often front volatility sat above back volatilityranking · 2026-08-22 · 5×4Preview: 5 ranked values, largest first. Theta and vega across expiry bands, near the money AAPLranking · 2026-08-22 · 6×3Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first.
Warrants vs Call Options: Key Differences
Recent forward stock splits and the share multiplierranking · 2026-08-22 · 12×4Preview: 12 ranked values, smallest first. Tesla basic and diluted share counts, quarter by quarterseries · 2026-08-22 · 12×5Preview: a 12-point series, ending lower. AAPL call contracts traded, by expiration dateseries · 2026-08-22 · 22×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. Basic and diluted share counts across eight large capsranking · 2026-08-22 · 8×4Preview: 8 ranked values, smallest first.
TSLA Implied Volatility: IV Now & Its History
TSLA ATM implied volatility by time to expiration: latest sessionranking · 2026-08-22 · 4×3Preview: 4 ranked values, smallest first. TSLA vs SPY and QQQ: median ATM implied volatility by month, since mid-2022series · 2026-08-22 · 50×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. TSLA at-the-money implied volatility by session: trailing 90 daysseries · 2026-08-22 · 62×2Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher.
Trading Options Inside an IRA: How It Works
Near the money put premium as a percent of the cash it locks upranking · 2026-08-22 · 5×3Preview: 5 ranked values, smallest first. Next declared ex dividend dates and the cash at stake per contractseries · 2026-08-22 · 2×4Preview: a 2-point series, ending higher. What one fully collateralized contract ties up, by underlyingranking · 2026-08-22 · 6×4Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first. Average call delta by strike versus spot, one week or less to expirationranking · 2026-08-22 · 6×3Preview: 6 ranked values, smallest first.
The Rule of 16 in Options, and When It Breaks
Does a Monday move like three calendar days? SPY by weekdayranking · 2026-08-22 · 5×4Preview: 5 ranked values, smallest first. The largest single session against a typical one, by nametable · 2026-08-22 · 6×5 Implied volatility divided by 16, next to the realized daily moveranking · 2026-08-22 · 6×4Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first. How far SPY travels over one session, and over sixty threeranking · 2026-08-22 · 7×4Preview: 7 ranked values, smallest first.
Straddle vs Strangle: Break-Evens and Margin
How often SPY moved a given distance over 21 sessionsranking · 2026-08-22 · 8×2Preview: 8 ranked values, largest first. One-month expected move priced by the option marketranking · 2026-08-22 · 6×3Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first.
Stock Splits vs Fractional Shares Explained
AAPL prints by trade size, one to ten shares, June 10 2026 sessionranking · 2026-08-22 · 10×2Preview: 10 ranked values, smallest first. NVDA strike ladder and share price across its June 2024 splitseries · 2026-08-22 · 10×5Preview: a 10-point series, ending higher. Forward stock splits at liquid US names, past three yearsranking · 2026-08-22 · 12×3Preview: 12 ranked values, smallest first. Price weighting across ten large US names, latest closeranking · 2026-08-22 · 10×3Preview: 10 ranked values, largest first.
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.
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.
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.
PLTR Implied Volatility: IV Now & Its History
PLTR ATM implied volatility by time to expiration: latest sessionranking · 2026-08-22 · 4×3Preview: 4 ranked values, smallest first. PLTR vs SPY and QQQ: median ATM implied volatility by month, since mid-2022series · 2026-08-22 · 50×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. PLTR at-the-money implied volatility by session: trailing 90 daysseries · 2026-08-22 · 62×2Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher.
Options Expiration Calendar 2026: All 12 Dates
Every Friday of 2026 through July, shortest session firstseries · 2026-08-22 · 31×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. Every 2026 monthly options expiration dateseries · 2026-08-22 · 12×6Preview: a 12-point series, ending higher. Was the April expiration Friday a trading day?ranking · 2026-08-22 · 11×4Preview: 11 ranked values, largest first. AAPL contracts traded into each 2026 expiration date, H1series · 2026-08-22 · 68×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower.
Options Approval Levels: What Each Tier Allows
Every $5 call spread on the same AAPL expiration: risk against maximum gainranking · 2026-08-22 · 7×3Preview: 7 ranked values, largest first. Largest single-session move, open to close, since 2016ranking · 2026-08-22 · 6×4Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first. What a covered call collects across strikes: AAPL, about one month outtable · 2026-08-22 · 6×5 Cash needed to hold 100 shares, six household namesranking · 2026-08-22 · 6×3Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first.
Open-Source GEX Dashboard: How It Works
The same chain, a different question: in the money value by settlement priceranking · 2026-08-22 · 23×2Preview: 16 ranked values, largest first. Gross SPY call and put gamma against the net, trailing 60 calendar daysseries · 2026-08-22 · 41×5Preview: a 16-point series, roughly flat. Signed SPY gamma exposure by expiry, next three weeksranking · 2026-08-22 · 11×4Preview: 11 ranked values, largest first. SPY gamma exposure by strike, latest session, contracts inside 30 daystable · 2026-08-22 · 23×5
NVDA Implied Volatility: IV Now & Its History
NVDA ATM implied volatility by time to expiration: latest sessionranking · 2026-08-22 · 4×3Preview: 4 ranked values, largest first. NVDA vs SPY and QQQ: median ATM implied volatility by month, since mid-2022series · 2026-08-22 · 50×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. NVDA at-the-money implied volatility by session: trailing 90 daysseries · 2026-08-22 · 62×2Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher.
MSTR Implied Volatility: IV Now & Its History
MSTR ATM implied volatility by time to expiration: latest sessionranking · 2026-08-22 · 4×3Preview: 4 ranked values, largest first. MSTR vs SPY and QQQ: median ATM implied volatility by month, since mid-2022series · 2026-08-22 · 50×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. MSTR at-the-money implied volatility by session: trailing 90 daysseries · 2026-08-22 · 62×2Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher.
MSFT Implied Volatility: IV Now & Its History
MSFT ATM implied volatility by time to expiration: latest sessionranking · 2026-08-22 · 4×3Preview: 4 ranked values, smallest first. MSFT vs SPY and QQQ: median ATM implied volatility by month, since mid-2022series · 2026-08-22 · 50×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. MSFT at-the-money implied volatility by session: trailing 90 daysseries · 2026-08-22 · 62×2Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher.
Margin for Selling Naked Options: Reg T Math
One fixed short AAPL call strike: requirement as a percent of the share price, April to June 2026series · 2026-08-22 · 62×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. Reg T minimum branches for one uncovered AAPL put, by strike (dollars per share)ranking · 2026-08-22 · 11×4Preview: 11 ranked values, smallest first. Uncovered call minimum per contract, strike about 5% out of the moneyranking · 2026-08-22 · 5×3Preview: 5 ranked values, largest first. Reg T minimum branches for one uncovered AAPL call, by strike (dollars per share)ranking · 2026-08-22 · 12×4Preview: 12 ranked values, smallest first.
IV Rank vs IV Percentile: Formulas Explained
IV rank vs IV percentile, eight liquid names, 52 week lookbacktable · 2026-08-22 · 8×5
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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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