Which stocks have daily options? Expiration schedules explained

Three meanings of “daily options”

A contract can be bought or sold on trading days before its expiration. It does not have to expire that day, and whether an executable quote exists is still up to the market. So a product that trades each day, a product with an expiration on every trading day and a report published each day are three different things. The first needs no special expiration schedule, the second is a claim about the expiration calendar of one underlying, and the third describes a publishing schedule.

Mixing them leads to wrong conclusions. A stock that appears in a daily volume ranking has not been shown to expire daily, and a directory that refreshes each day is not a schedule of daily expirations.

Stocks, ETFs and indexes: who can list more than Friday expirations

BOX Exchange filed a rule change on January 20, 2026, and the SEC published a notice of filing and immediate effectiveness on January 27, 2026 (SR-BOX-2026-02). It lets BOX list up to two Monday and Wednesday expirations, in addition to the Friday weekly, for “Qualifying Securities”: individual stocks or ETFs that meet tests applied each quarter. These are BOX's rule terms as filed and dated. They are not a current market-wide rule and not a ticker list.

As filed, a stock needs a market capitalization above $700 billion, or an ETF assets above $50 billion, both measured on the last day of the prior calendar quarter. It also needs options volume above 10 million sides in the last month of the prior calendar quarter, based on OCC data (one month, not an average), a position limit of at least 250,000 contracts and participation in the Penny Interval Program. The result applies to the following quarter, and BOX stated that it would make the list of Qualifying Securities available on its website by the close of the first trading day of the quarter. The filing also says BOX would not list an expiry on a day with an earnings announcement after the close. As of June 27, 2025, it counted eight individual stocks and one further ETF without existing Monday and Wednesday expirations as meeting the tests, and both numbers were under 0.2% of securities with listed options.

ETFs: the same filing says BOX already permitted Monday to Thursday expirations in SPY, QQQ and IWM, Monday and Wednesday in GLD, SLV and TLT, and Wednesday in USO and UNG. Individual stocks: qualifying stocks can be added to Monday and Wednesday expirations, and Cboe's technical FAQ states that existing Cboe rules permitting Monday and Wednesday expirations apply to single equity option classes. Indexes: index options are separate products with their own contract specifications, so read the listing exchange's specification for the index you care about.

Rule permission is not a current listing. A product that qualifies may list only some of the permitted days, and eligibility is retested every quarter. This guide therefore does not publish a ticker list.

How to check an option chain for daily expirations

Open the option chain for the underlying in your broker or on an exchange website and find the list of expiration dates. An item in that list only means an expiration date you can choose. A specific contract exists once you also pick call or put and a strike.

Hypothetical example, not market data: suppose that for the week of Monday, November 16, 2026, a chain lists expirations on Monday November 16, Wednesday November 18 and Friday November 20, and none on Tuesday November 17 or Thursday November 19. That week has three expiration dates, not five. A normal full trading week without holidays has five trading days, and only a chain with an expiration on each of them has a daily schedule. In a holiday week, compare against the days the market is actually open. Check week by week. A missing day is not necessarily an error: the filing says, for example, that BOX would not list an expiry on a day with an after-close earnings announcement.

For the contract you actually plan to use, confirm whether it is a call or a put, the strike, whether it is a standard or an adjusted contract (for example after a corporate action) and the settlement terms in its contract specification. Check holidays too: under the BOX rule text in the filing, if a Tuesday to Friday expiration date is not a business day the series expires on the prior business day, while a Monday series expires on the following business day.

Look again on the day you trade. Cboe's technical FAQ describes new series being added overnight, so a chain can differ from yesterday's.

0DTE and expiration frequency

0DTE means a contract is on its expiration day. Every expiration date creates a 0DTE day, so in an ordinary week a stock with Monday, Wednesday and Friday expirations has 0DTE contracts on those three days, not on all five. More frequent expirations give more choices of date. They do not change what the contract is.

Contracts close to expiration carry one specific risk: time value erodes quickly, and a small move in the underlying can change the option price by a large percentage, including to zero. Confirm exercise and assignment handling with your broker before holding a contract into expiration. This is educational information, not advice.

How OptionsDaily's daily reports fit in

At OptionsDaily, “daily” describes the report: it is updated each trading day with option volume and C/P data. It does not mean the contracts expire daily, and the site does not publish a directory of stocks guaranteed to have an expiration every day. A stock in a report had option trading in that session. Whether any of its contracts expires tomorrow is something the option chain answers.

A practical routine is to read the report date and update timestamp, pick candidates from the volume and C/P figures, then verify the listed expirations in your broker. The related guides on this page explain C/P and how volume differs from open interest, and the free preview shows a recent report before you decide on a plan.

Frequently asked questions

Q: Does every heavily traded stock have daily expirations? A: No. Heavy trading is one eligibility test, not a guarantee. Which Monday and Wednesday expirations exist depends on exchange eligibility and on what is listed. The option chain is the authority.

Q: Is Cboe's Weeklys directory a list of daily expirations? A: No. It covers weekly-option products listed on Cboe only and is refreshed daily from the previous business day's information. A daily refresh is not a daily expiration.

Q: Do stock options only expire on Fridays? A: No. The BOX filing describes qualifying individual stocks and ETFs as able to add Monday and Wednesday expirations. Check the option chain for what is actually listed.

Q: Does this apply to other markets? A: This guide covers US-listed options. Other markets, such as European index options, have their own contract specifications, so use that exchange's documentation.

Q: How current is this page? A: The sources were checked on November 13, 2026, and the rule terms are those filed with the SEC in January 2026. Rules and listed expirations change, so treat this page as an explanation of what to check, not a live schedule.