STRASMORE/EXPLORE 2,170 QUERIES 22Y EQUITIES · 12Y OPTIONS

2,170 answered market questions

every one with its exact SQL, its result and the date it was computed · free, no signup

Why VIX Options Don't Track the VIX
SPY near-the-money implied volatility by distance to expirationranking · 2026-08-22 · 6×3Preview: 6 ranked values, smallest first. How far the long tenor travels on days the front end jumpsranking · 2026-08-22 · 5×4Preview: 5 ranked values, smallest first. Near-dated versus long-dated SPY implied volatility, session by sessionseries · 2026-08-22 · 81×3Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. The near-to-far implied volatility gap across liquid namesranking · 2026-08-22 · 6×4Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first.
Why Short Interest Data Is Always Two Weeks Old
The pipeline lag in one row: plus the bulk backfill these figures deliberately excludescalar · 2026-08-22 · 1×610 Every incrementally-delivered settlement: measured on one date, on file days laterseries · 2026-08-22 · 10×3Preview: a 10-point series, ending lower. GME, winter 2020-21: each short interest print and the price move before it went public (as-traded prices)table · 2026-08-22 · 6×5 GME days to cover: as reported in the file, and recomputed on the volume that traded while the print was pendingscalar · 2026-08-22 · 1×853.7 The current state of the cycle: the newest print on file, and the one still in the pipelinescalar · 2026-08-22 · 1×622,339 The blind window: what five stocks did between the settlement date and the day its short interest was publishedtable · 2026-08-22 · 5×6
Who Sets the Ex-Dividend Date? Not the Board
One-time distributions by size: where the ex-date landsranking · 2026-08-22 · 4×4Preview: 4 ranked values, largest first. Regular dividends: ex-date before the record date, or on itseries · 2026-08-22 · 43×5Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. Board declaration to ex-date to payment, eight household payersranking · 2026-08-22 · 8×4Preview: 8 ranked values, largest first. Ex-date alignment by payout cadence, since T+1 took effectranking · 2026-08-22 · 6×4Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first.
When Is Short Interest Released?
The short interest release schedule: recent FINRA settlement dates and names reportedseries · 2026-08-22 · 16×2Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. Measured publication lag: settlement date vs the day the file first arrived hereseries · 2026-08-22 · 10×3Preview: a 10-point series, ending lower. The publication lag in one row: fastest, median and slowest across incrementally-delivered settlementsscalar · 2026-08-22 · 1×410 Day-of-month and the gap between consecutive settlement dates: the twice-monthly cadenceseries · 2026-08-22 · 16×3Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. The current state of the release cycle: the newest print on file and the settlement still pendingscalar · 2026-08-22 · 1×631
Street Name vs Holder of Record: Cede & Co
Average days from record date to pay date, eight large dividend payersranking · 2026-08-22 · 8×3Preview: 8 ranked values, largest first. Reported short interest and days to cover, latest settlement date on fileranking · 2026-08-22 · 8×4Preview: 8 ranked values, largest first. Coca-Cola quarterly dividends: calendar days from ex-dividend date to record dateseries · 2026-08-22 · 14×4Preview: a 14-point series, ending higher. Cash dividends by month: did the record date land on the ex-dividend date?series · 2026-08-22 · 39×5Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher.
SPX vs SPY Options: Which One to Trade
SPY option volume by days to expiry, trailing six weeksranking · 2026-08-22 · 5×3Preview: 5 ranked values, largest first. Time value left in deep in-the-money SPY calls, against the dividend at stakeranking · 2026-08-22 · 16×4Preview: 16 ranked values, smallest first. How close SPY closes to the nearest whole-dollar strike on monthly expirationsseries · 2026-08-22 · 13×4Preview: a 13-point series, ending lower. What one contract controls: SPX, SPY and XSPranking · 2026-08-22 · 3×4Preview: 3 ranked values, largest first.
Ex-Dividend Date vs. Record Date: Same Day?
One real dividend: AAPL's most recent completed payout, all four datesscalar · 2026-08-22 · 1×90.27 Median waits along the dividend calendar (trailing 12 months, recurring US dividends)scalar · 2026-08-22 · 1×344,908 Calendar days from ex-dividend date to record date (trailing 12 months)ranking · 2026-08-22 · 4×3Preview: 4 ranked values, smallest first. Ex-date vs. record date by year: share identical, and the median gap in calendar daysranking · 2026-08-22 · 12×4Preview: 12 ranked values, smallest first. The T+1 cutover, week by week: share of dividends with ex-date = record date, April–July 2024ranking · 2026-08-22 · 18×3Preview: 16 ranked values, largest first. Dividends that went ex AFTER the record date: special vs. recurring, trailing 12 monthstable · 2026-08-22 · 2×6
How Stock Settlement Works Under T+1
Trade date to settlement date across real sessions, November 2025series · 2026-08-22 · 11×5Preview: a 11-point series, ending higher. Ex-dividend date to payment date, latest 2026 dividend for nine household payersseries · 2026-08-22 · 9×4Preview: a 9-point series, ending higher. Microsoft dividend dates, from the T+2 era into T+1series · 2026-08-22 · 13×6Preview: a 13-point series, ending lower. Gap between ex-dividend date and record date, by yearranking · 2026-08-22 · 12×3Preview: 12 ranked values, largest first.
Good Faith Violations in Cash Accounts
Every session ahead, and the day a sale made in it settlesseries · 2026-08-22 · 15×4Preview: a 15-point series, roughly flat. KO and AAPL closes across the July 2026 holiday week, with settlement datesseries · 2026-08-22 · 9×5Preview: a 9-point series, ending higher. Trailing year: calendar days a sale waited to settleranking · 2026-08-22 · 4×3Preview: 4 ranked values, largest first.
Due Bills and Stock Splits: Ex-Date Timing
US stock splits by year, sorted by size of the distributionranking · 2026-08-22 · 10×4Preview: 10 ranked values, smallest first. NVDA across its June 2024 split: stored close and one pre-split shareseries · 2026-08-22 · 10×5Preview: a 10-point series, ending higher. Days between pay date and ex-date, cash distributions that went ex lateranking · 2026-08-22 · 12×3Preview: 12 ranked values, largest first. Recent household-name splits: shares from one shareranking · 2026-08-22 · 15×4Preview: 15 ranked values, largest first.
Cash Settled vs Physical Delivery Options
SPY: widest open print to close print gaps on monthly expiration Fridays since 2021ranking · 2026-08-22 · 12×4Preview: 12 ranked values, smallest first. How close SPY closes to a whole dollar strike, expiration Fridays vs every other sessionranking · 2026-08-22 · 4×4Preview: 4 ranked values, smallest first. Dividend owed per assigned contract, recent ex dividend datesseries · 2026-08-22 · 6×3Preview: a 6-point series, ending lower. What 100 shares per contract is worth, six household namesseries · 2026-08-22 · 6×3Preview: a 6-point series, ending lower.
Can You Sell on the Ex-Dividend Date?
From ex-dividend date to record date to the cash, in calendar daystable · 2026-08-22 · 8×6 Share of 2024 US dividends whose record date fell on the ex-dividend dateseries · 2026-08-22 · 12×3Preview: a 12-point series, ending higher. Shares held short against average daily volume, large dividend payersranking · 2026-08-22 · 8×4Preview: 8 ranked values, largest first. Ex-date opening gap by dividend size, US quarterly dividends 2024 to 2025ranking · 2026-08-22 · 5×4Preview: 5 ranked values, largest first.
When Is SQ Day for Nikkei 225 Options?
Opening prints against the previous close: settlement Friday vs an ordinary Fridayranking · 2026-08-16 · 8×3Preview: 8 ranked values, largest first. Share of SPY session volume printed in the opening minute, third Friday vs other Fridaysseries · 2026-08-16 · 11×4Preview: a 11-point series, ending higher. SPY volume by ET clock minute around the open, 13 March vs 20 March 2026series · 2026-08-16 · 46×3Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher.
How Event Contracts Settle: Payout and Fees
Final-day call prices by where the strike sat against the priceranking · 2026-08-09 · 12×3Preview: 12 ranked values, largest first. Traded price against intrinsic value, by days to expirytable · 2026-08-09 · 30×4 Where SPY option volume sits across the last 30 days of contract lifetable · 2026-08-09 · 30×2
Nikkei 225 Options and SQ Settlement
SPY implied volatility vs the volatility realized in the following monthseries · 2026-08-03 · 23×5Preview: a 16-point series, roughly flat. Implied vs realized volatility, six heavily traded US underlyings, twelve months to June 30, 2026ranking · 2026-08-03 · 6×4Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first. Median theta and implied volatility by days to expiry: near-the-money SPY contracts, H1 2026table · 2026-08-03 · 60×4 SPY on monthly settlement Fridays: the opening gap, and where the session went afterwardsseries · 2026-08-03 · 16×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. Opening prints on settlement morning, May 15, 2026: twelve large US constituentsranking · 2026-08-03 · 12×3Preview: 12 ranked values, largest first.
AM vs PM Settled Index Options Explained
The same hypothetical on every session: expiration mornings against the rest of the tapetable · 2026-08-03 · 3×5 The prices behind the arithmetic: Thursday's close, the strike, Friday's open and closeseries · 2026-08-03 · 29×6Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. One at-the-money call settled two ways: the ten widest splits since January 2024table · 2026-08-03 · 10×5 Every monthly expiration since January 2024: the overnight gap, then the session that followedseries · 2026-08-03 · 29×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower.
When Do Mutual Fund Trades Settle?
Short end vs long end of the Treasury curve: monthly averages, July 2024 to June 2026series · 2026-08-01 · 24×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. Trading sessions vs calendar days, twelve months through June 2026series · 2026-08-01 · 12×4Preview: a 12-point series, ending lower. How far the S&P 500 tracker moved open to close: sessions by size band, July 2025 to June 2026ranking · 2026-08-01 · 5×3Preview: 5 ranked values, largest first. Longest breaks between US trading sessions, January to late July 2026ranking · 2026-08-01 · 10×2Preview: 10 ranked values, largest first.
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.
SPY near-the-money implied volatility by distance to expiration

SPY near-the-money implied volatility by distance to expiration

most recentas of ranking 6×3read in context →
SPY near-the-money implied volatility by distance to expiration — 6 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
dte_bandiv_pctcontract_count
up to 1 week18.0642251
1 to 3 weeks14.5147164
3 to 6 weeks14.9737078
6 weeks to 3 months15.4625859
3 to 6 months16.6717769
over 6 months18.6817210
the exact SQL behind every number
SELECT
    multiIf(days_to_expiry <=   7, 'up to 1 week',
            days_to_expiry <=  21, '1 to 3 weeks',
            days_to_expiry <=  45, '3 to 6 weeks',
            days_to_expiry <=  90, '6 weeks to 3 months',
            days_to_expiry <= 180, '3 to 6 months',
                                   'over 6 months')          AS dte_band,
    round(avg(implied_volatility) * 100, 2)                   AS iv_pct,
    count()                                                   AS contract_count
FROM global_markets.options_greeks
WHERE underlying_symbol = 'SPY'
  AND iv_converged = 1
  AND volume > 0
  AND days_to_expiry BETWEEN 1 AND 730
  AND abs(toFloat64(strike_price) / toFloat64(underlying_close) - 1) < 0.05
  AND date >= today() - 120
GROUP BY dte_band
ORDER BY min(days_to_expiry)
$