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The Low-Volatility Anomaly
Growth of $100: a calm name (KO), the market (SPY), a wild name (NVDA), weeklyseries · 2026-08-22 · 115×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. Annualized volatility vs total return, 25 large caps, calmest to wildest (~2 years)ranking · 2026-08-22 · 25×3Preview: 16 ranked values, smallest first. Volatility thirds: median return, and the range from worst to best name in eachtable · 2026-08-22 · 3×6
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.
The Lowest-Volatility Stocks
The calmest large caps: annualized realized volatility over the past year, lowest firstranking · 2026-08-22 · 15×2Preview: 15 ranked values, smallest first. Maximum drawdown of the calmest names: the worst peak-to-trough fall over the past yearranking · 2026-08-22 · 8×2Preview: 8 ranked values, largest first.
Event Contract Collateral and Max Loss
Return on collateral for each side, by contract priceranking · 2026-08-22 · 13×4Preview: 13 ranked values, smallest first. Near the money SPY put marks, May to June 2026series · 2026-08-22 · 41×4Preview: a 16-point series, roughly flat. Buyer and seller collateral at every contract priceranking · 2026-08-22 · 19×4Preview: 16 ranked values, smallest first. Short dated Treasury yields, trailing 18 monthsseries · 2026-08-22 · 18×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. A 60 cent contract, annualised across holding periodsranking · 2026-08-22 · 7×3Preview: 7 ranked values, largest first.
How Buffer ETFs Work: Caps and Resets
A 15% cap and 9% buffer, seen from three entry pointsranking · 2026-08-12 · 21×4Preview: 16 ranked values, smallest first. SPY calendar-year price return against a 15% cap and 9% bufferranking · 2026-08-12 · 12×3Preview: 12 ranked values, smallest first. Remaining buffer and remaining cap by entry pointranking · 2026-08-12 · 11×3Preview: 11 ranked values, smallest first. Compounding the index against the buffered payoff, net of a 0.79% feeranking · 2026-08-12 · 12×3Preview: 12 ranked values, smallest first.
How Futures Margin Works: SPAN and Calls
SPY typical and largest daily move, month by month since 2019series · 2026-08-10 · 91×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. Short term Treasury yields, the reference a stock margin loan is priced offseries · 2026-08-10 · 91×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. One day move size across six household names, five years to July 2026ranking · 2026-08-10 · 6×3Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first. A decade of SPY daily closing moves, sorted into size bucketsranking · 2026-08-10 · 6×3Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first.
Pin Risk at Options Expiration Explained
How far the Friday close lands from the nearest whole dollarranking · 2026-08-09 · 10×3Preview: 10 ranked values, largest first. AAPL's final half hour on its tightest monthly expiration close since 2025series · 2026-08-09 · 30×5Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower.
Probability of Touch vs Probability ITM
SPY through July 2024 against a level 2% above the July 1 closeseries · 2026-08-07 · 28×6Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. SPY: touched versus finished above, 21-session forward windows since 2011table · 2026-08-07 · 4×5 SPY option delta buckets, with the doubling rule applied (Jan to Jun 2026)ranking · 2026-08-07 · 9×4Preview: 9 ranked values, smallest first.
What Is Maximum Drawdown? Depth vs Recovery
Same fund, five lookback windows: SPY maximum drawdown by sample length to July 31, 2026ranking · 2026-08-05 · 5×3Preview: 5 ranked values, smallest first. Completed SPY drawdowns since 2016: depth, days falling, days climbing backtable · 2026-08-05 · 8×5 SPY underwater curve: month end close against its running peak, 2016 to 2026series · 2026-08-05 · 127×2Preview: a 16-point series, roughly flat. Maximum drawdown against annualized volatility: eight large caps, five years to July 31, 2026ranking · 2026-08-05 · 8×3Preview: 8 ranked values, largest first.
How Risky Is Options Trading? The Mechanics
Weekend gaps: prior close to next open, six widely held names, August 2024 to July 2026table · 2026-08-01 · 6×5 One AAPL call through its final month: closing premium split into intrinsic value and time valueseries · 2026-08-01 · 23×5Preview: a 16-point series, roughly flat. Same AAPL call, same window: session moves for the contract and for the stockseries · 2026-08-01 · 23×3Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. AAPL contracts trading on their own expiration day: share finishing out of the money, six monthly cyclesranking · 2026-08-01 · 6×4Preview: 6 ranked values, smallest first.
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.
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
Growth of $100: a calm name (KO), the market (SPY), a wild name (NVDA), weekly

Growth of $100: a calm name (KO), the market (SPY), a wild name (NVDA), weekly

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Growth of $100: a calm name (KO), the market (SPY), a wild name (NVDA), weekly — 115 rows by 4 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
weekko_calmspy_marketnvda_wild
2024-06-1099.4100.1102
2024-06-1799.7100.398.2
2024-06-24101.1100.395.4
2024-07-01101.2102.397.2
2024-07-08101.2103.299.8
2024-07-15103.7101.291.2
2024-07-22106.5100.487.4
2024-07-29110.198.382.9
2024-08-05109.198.380.9
2024-08-12109.9102.296.3
2024-08-19110.8103.699.9
2024-08-26115.1103.992.3
2024-09-0211399.679.5
2024-09-09113.4103.692
2024-09-16113.8104.789.7
2024-09-23114105.393.8
2024-09-30111.4105.696.5
2024-10-07110.5106.8104.2
2024-10-14111.8107.8106.7
2024-10-21106.3106.8109.4
2024-10-28103.2105.3104.7
2024-11-04101.5110.3114
2024-11-1198108109.7
2024-11-18101.5109.8109.7
2024-11-25101.8111.1106.9
2024-12-0299.3112.1110.1
2024-12-09100.3111.4103.7
2024-12-1699.4108.9104.3
2024-12-2399.2109.7106
2024-12-3098109.1111.8
2025-01-0697107105
2025-01-1399.6110.2106.5
2025-01-2098.3112.1110.2
2025-01-27100.811192.8
2025-02-03101.4110.8100.4
2025-02-10109.4112.4107.3
2025-02-17113.4110.6103.8
2025-02-24113.1109.596.7
2025-03-03113.4106.287.1
2025-03-10109.8103.893.9
2025-03-1710910490.9
2025-03-24111.8102.584.7
2025-03-31111.193.272.9
2025-04-07113.398.485.6
2025-04-14115.99778.4
2025-04-21114.2101.585.8
2025-04-28113.8104.588.4
2025-05-0511210490.1
2025-05-12114.4109.6104.6
2025-05-19114106.8101.5
2025-05-26114.5108.7104.2
2025-06-02113.3110.4109.5
2025-06-09112.8110.1109.7
2025-06-16109.3109.6111.1
2025-06-23111.7113.4121.9
2025-06-30113.3115.3123.1
2025-07-07111115127.4
2025-07-14110.9115.7133.2
2025-07-21109.8117.4134.1
2025-07-28109.3114.6134.2
2025-08-04111.7117.5141.3
2025-08-11111.1118.6139.5
2025-08-18111.4119137.6
2025-08-25109.6118.9134.7
2025-09-01107.9119.3129.1
2025-09-08106.4121.2137.4
2025-09-15105.5122.4136.4
2025-09-22104.2122137.7
2025-09-29105.8123.4145
2025-10-06106.5120.4141.5
2025-10-13108.7122.5141.6
2025-10-20110.7124.8144
2025-10-27109.4125.7156.5
2025-11-03112123.7145.5
2025-11-10113123.9147.1
2025-11-17115.9121.5138.3
2025-11-24116.1126136.8
2025-12-01111.1126.4141
2025-12-08112125.7135.3
2025-12-15111.3125.5139.9
2025-12-22111127.3147.3
2025-12-29109.8126145.9
2026-01-05112127.9142.9
2026-01-12111.8127.5143.9
2026-01-19115.7127.1145.1
2026-01-26118.9127.6147.9
2026-02-02125.5127.3143.3
2026-02-09124.9125.7141.3
2026-02-16126.8127.1146.7
2026-02-23129.5126.5136.9
2026-03-02122.4124137.4
2026-03-09122.8122.1139.3
2026-03-16118.7119.6133.7
2026-03-23120.2116.9129.4
2026-03-30121.8120.9137.1
2026-04-06123125.2145.8
2026-04-13120.3130.9155.9
2026-04-20121.7131.6160.9
2026-04-27124.8132.9153.4
2026-05-04124.5136166.3
2026-05-11128.4136.3174.2
2026-05-18129.4137.5166.4
2026-05-25125.5139.5163.2
2026-06-01126.3136158.5
2026-06-08131.2136.7158.6
2026-06-15126.1137.6162.5
2026-06-22131.2134.4148.2
2026-06-29133.4137.3150.4
2026-07-06132.6139.2163.1
2026-07-13129.5137156.6
2026-07-20130.6136.2160
2026-07-27139.1137.7155.2
2026-08-03138.2142.6173.1
2026-08-10139.3143.1174
2026-08-17144.6141.4166.5
the exact SQL behind every number
WITH d AS (
    SELECT ticker,
           toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) AS dt,
           argMax(toFloat64(close), toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) AS c
    FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
    WHERE ticker IN ('KO','SPY','NVDA')
      AND window_start >= now() - INTERVAL 800 DAY
      AND (toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60
           + toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))) BETWEEN 570 AND 959
    GROUP BY ticker, dt
),
r AS (
    SELECT ticker, dt,
           c / lagInFrame(c) OVER (PARTITION BY ticker ORDER BY dt) - 1 AS ret
    FROM d
),
f AS (
    SELECT ticker, dt, ret FROM r WHERE ret IS NOT NULL AND ret > -0.5 AND ret < 0.5
),
cum AS (
    SELECT ticker, dt,
           100 * exp(sum(log(1 + ret)) OVER (PARTITION BY ticker ORDER BY dt)) AS idx
    FROM f
),
wk AS (
    SELECT ticker, toMonday(dt) AS week, argMax(idx, dt) AS wv
    FROM cum GROUP BY ticker, week
)
SELECT week,
       round(maxIf(wv, ticker = 'KO'), 1) AS ko_calm,
       round(maxIf(wv, ticker = 'SPY'), 1) AS spy_market,
       round(maxIf(wv, ticker = 'NVDA'), 1) AS nvda_wild
FROM wk
GROUP BY week
ORDER BY week
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