Best Stocks for Weekly Options: 10 by Volume
Ten names ranked by average daily option volume — where weekly contracts have the open interest and tight markets that short-dated trading requires.
The Short Answer
Weekly options only work where volume is. A weekly contract with no open interest has a wide market and no exit, and short-dated positions are exactly the ones you cannot afford to be stuck in — theta is working against a bad fill every single day. Liquidity is the first filter for weeklies, not the last.
Average daily option volume across all expirations is the best available proxy for weekly liquidity, because the venues that list dense weekly chains are the same ones with heavy overall flow. Note that high volume also means high implied volatility is real: these names move, and weekly options give you very little time to be wrong.
ApexVol screens 399 optionable names for this list, requiring a $5+ share price and 1,000+ contracts of average daily option volume before ranking. Ranked by ORATS 20-day average daily option volume. Requires $5+ share price. Live IV rank and 30-day IV shown for each so you can see what you are paying alongside how easily you can trade it.
3.4M contracts a day with 13.6M total open interest. IV rank 57, 30-day IV 44%.
2.4M contracts a day with 5.6M total open interest. IV rank 50, 30-day IV 45%.
1.5M contracts a day with 4.8M total open interest. IV rank 96, 30-day IV 27%.
778K contracts a day with 4.7M total open interest. IV rank 71, 30-day IV 33%.
726K contracts a day with 5.4M total open interest. IV rank 80, 30-day IV 82%.
683K contracts a day with 4.0M total open interest. IV rank 82, 30-day IV 30%.
How We Ranked These Strategies
Ranked by ORATS 20-day average daily option volume. Requires $5+ share price. Live IV rank and 30-day IV shown for each so you can see what you are paying alongside how easily you can trade it.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Which stocks have the most liquid weekly options?
The broad index ETFs and the largest, most actively traded single names. This list ranks by measured average daily option volume rather than by reputation, so the ordering reflects current flow rather than which tickers are talked about most.
Are weekly options riskier than monthlies?
They concentrate the same risks into less time. Gamma is far higher near expiration, so a position that is comfortably out of the money on Wednesday can be deep in the money on Friday with no time left to manage it. The faster theta decay that attracts sellers is the same force that leaves no recovery room.
Do all stocks have weekly options?
No. Weeklies are listed selectively, concentrated in high-volume names and major ETFs. If a ticker is not in the top tier of option volume it likely has monthly expirations only, or weeklies so thin they are not practically tradable.
Is high option volume the same as tight spreads?
Closely related but not identical. Volume drives market-maker competition, which drives spread width, so the correlation is strong. Open interest matters too, which is why it is shown alongside volume for each name here.
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