Stats › Options, shorts and positioning › Options volume
Same day options are 59% of all S&P 500 option volume
Multi-list options on individual stocks are the bulk of contract count. Index options are far fewer contracts but each one is much larger in notional terms. Source: Cboe full year 2025 volume release.
An option is a contract with a deadline, and that deadline has moved to today. Options expiring the same day they are traded made up 59% of S&P 500 option volume in 2025, and 62.4% in August. The product barely existed before 2022.
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