Why there is no single "0DTE list"
Zero days to expiration is not a product. It is a state every option passes through on the last day of its life. Any optionable stock in the United States is technically a 0DTE name on the third Friday of the month, which makes "what has 0DTE options" a question that answers itself uselessly.
The question traders actually mean is narrower: which tickers expire on days other than Friday, and how often? That is finite and knowable, because exchange listing rules set it rather than demand.
It is also a moving target, which is why most published lists are wrong. The tiers below were built by reading the live listed expiration calendar for more than sixty of the most actively traded option classes on August 20, 2026, using Cboe's public delayed quotes. Any list without a date on it is describing a market that has already moved.
Tier 1: expirations every trading day
Cash-settled index products, European-style, with no early assignment:
- SPX and SPXW — the contract that defined the category. Cboe announced on April 13, 2022 that Tuesday-expiring SPX Weeklys would begin on April 18 and Thursday-expiring series on May 11, completing the every-weekday cycle (Cboe). SPXW is P.M.-settled and cash-settled (specifications).
- XSP — Mini-SPX, one tenth the notional, same daily cycle and same cash settlement.
- NDXP — the P.M.-settled Nasdaq-100 series expires all Mondays through Fridays; standard NDX still expires the third Friday (Nasdaq).
- RUTW and MRUT — Cboe added Tuesday and Thursday Russell 2000 expiries on January 8, 2024 (Cboe).
- DJXW — the newest and the one missing from nearly every circulating list. Cboe began listing P.M.-settled Monday-through-Friday Dow expirations on May 18, 2026 (Cboe notice).
Physically settled ETFs with a full weekday cycle: SPY, QQQ, IWM, GLD, XLF and SMH.
Note the asymmetry that trips people up: DJXW, the Dow index weekly series, expires daily. DIA, the Dow ETF, lists no weekday series at all beyond its Friday weeklies. The index and the fund tracking it are governed by different listing rules.
Size is the other reason this tier splits in practice. An SPX contract controls the index level multiplied by $100, which put one contract near $770,000 of notional with the index at 7,707.98 on August 20, 2026 (Cboe). That is more than most accounts should put behind a position measured in hours. XSP and MRUT exist for exactly that reason: one tenth the notional, the same daily expiration calendar, the same cash settlement. If you want index-style 0DTE without index-style position size, the mini contracts are the honest answer rather than buying deep out-of-the-money SPX lottery tickets to get the premium down.
Tier 2: Monday, Wednesday and Friday
Eleven single stocks currently carry Monday and Wednesday expirations alongside the Friday weekly: AAPL, AMD, AMZN, AVGO, GOOGL, INTC, META, MSFT, MU, NVDA and TSLA.
Seven ETFs sit in the same bucket: IBIT, SLV, TLT, XLE, EEM, TQQQ and SOXL.
One trap worth stating plainly: GOOGL has Monday and Wednesday expirations; GOOG does not. Alphabet's two share classes are separate option classes, and only the Class A line carries the extra expirations. If you think in company names rather than option classes, that is an easy way to arrive at a chain that has nothing expiring today.
Tier 3: Wednesday and Friday
USO and UNG carry Wednesday expirations but no Monday series, giving them two same-day sessions a week.
Everything else with listed options expires on Fridays only, setting aside the occasional quarter-end date. That includes plenty of names competitor lists file under 0DTE: DIA, HYG, ARKK, SQQQ, NFLX, COIN, PLTR, JPM, BA, MSTR, ORCL, and every sector SPDR we sampled other than XLF and XLE. Those are real 0DTE trades one day a week. They are not daily-expiration tickers.
The two rules that write the list
Non-Friday expirations come from two separate mechanisms, and confusing them is why lists drift.
The first is an enumerated table. Exchange rulebooks name specific symbols approved for extra weekday expiries — as of the January 2026 filing, SPY, IWM and QQQ on Mondays through Thursdays, GLD, SLV and TLT on Mondays and Wednesdays, USO and UNG on Wednesdays (SEC filing SR-CBOE-2026-007). That table grows by individual rule filing, which is exactly how GLD reached a full daily cycle after January.
The second is a quarterly qualification test. A "Qualifying Security" must clear four thresholds, re-measured every quarter: market capitalization above $700 billion for a stock or assets under management above $50 billion for an ETF; monthly options volume above 10 million sides traded; a position limit of at least 250,000 contracts; and participation in the Penny Interval Program. Nine names cleared the bar for the January 26, 2026 launch (Nasdaq, MIAX).
Those thresholds then loosened. On August 12, 2026 the SEC approved a two-tier structure for ETFs: Tier 1 funds, above $50 billion in assets and 10 million monthly sides traded, become eligible for Monday through Thursday; Tier 2 funds, above $25 billion and 5 million sides, for Monday and Wednesday. The exchange's supporting analysis identified five funds that would have met one of the two tiers as of April 2026 — IBIT, XLF, SMH, XLE and EEM (SEC order). Eligibility snapshots and live listings do not move in lockstep, which is the second reason to read a chain rather than a filing.
Two practical consequences follow. The roster turns over quarterly, so a saved list decays from the day you save it. And individual expirations get skipped: exchanges do not list a Qualifying Security expiry on a day with an after-close earnings report. NVDA, for example, has Monday and Wednesday series through August 2026 but no August 26 expiration, because that is its earnings date. A correct ticker list still cannot tell you whether a specific Wednesday exists.
The direction of travel is worth noting, because it is mechanical rather than speculative. Each loosening of the thresholds pulls more names into the non-Friday tiers, and every quarterly review re-tests the whole universe against them. Nothing about that process guarantees a name stays: an ETF whose assets fall back below its tier threshold, or a stock whose volume fades, can lose the extra expirations it gained. Treat any bookmarked list, including this one, as a snapshot with a shelf life measured in months.
What most lists get wrong about VIX
VIX appears on many 0DTE lists. It should not. VIX options are A.M.-settled, and Cboe's specifications state that the last trading day for an expiring VIX or VIXW contract is the day immediately preceding the day the settlement value is calculated (Cboe).
The contract stops trading with one day left, so there is no genuine same-day session in VIX the way there is in SPX. Volatility exposure on expiration morning has to be expressed some other way. It is a small distinction that produces a large surprise if you find it with a position on.
Listed is not the same as liquid
The list of tickers with daily expirations and the list where daily expirations are worth trading are very different documents.
Concentration is extreme. In September 2025, SPX options averaged 4.26 million contracts a day, with 0DTE contracts at roughly 60% of that volume (Cboe). In volume terms the daily-expiration ecosystem is largely an SPX and SPY story, with QQQ a distant third.
That matters because a 0DTE option has no time value left to cushion a wide spread. A market of $0.08 bid at $0.14 ask carries a 43% round-trip cost on a position that may live two hours. On the newer Monday and Wednesday single-stock series, early-session open interest can be thin enough that the displayed quote is closer to a placeholder than a price. Check the spread and the open interest on the specific expiration before assuming a ticker's presence on any list makes it tradable.
Why the list matters for dealer positioning
If you read dealer hedging flow, the expiration calendar is not trivia. It is the map of where gamma sits. Options expiring today carry the largest gamma per contract on the board, so a market maker's hedging obligation clusters violently around near-the-money strikes as the session ages.
Daily index expirations mean that concentration rebuilds every morning in SPX, which is why SPX gamma levels reset rather than persist across sessions. The Monday and Wednesday single-stock series extend the same mechanic into individual names: a large same-day open interest cluster in a ticker like NVDA on a Wednesday can pin price the way index expirations do, on a day most participants are not watching for it.
For physically settled names that clustering also carries pin risk. The exercise decision happens after the closing bell, not at it, so a short option that looked worthless into the close can still be exercised if the underlying drifts through the strike late. You wake up holding shares and overnight gap risk you never chose. Cash-settled index products have no such window, which is one of the sharper practical differences between SPX and SPY.
Checking any ticker in under a minute
Open the option chain and read the expiration dates for the next three weeks. Only Fridays means a Friday-only name. Mondays and Wednesdays appearing means Tier 2. Every weekday means Tier 1. Then confirm the specific date exists rather than assuming it, because of the earnings-skip rule.
The mechanics of trading these contracts once you have picked one — the Greeks, the sizing, the failure modes — are covered in our guide to 0DTE options trading. The list tells you where the game is played. It does not tell you how to survive it.
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