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Daily ATM IV trends for IWM/QQQ

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May 10, 2026 · 07:39

It is probbaly everyone knows, but a little discovery for me:

I plotted ATM IV for next two weeks of IWM and QQQ and “discovered” quite interesting trend - IV for Monday expirations are below Friday - even next week Monday IV is below this week Friday.

It's a bit counterintuitive (at least for me) - especially in today's environment where war/peace news are usually coming on weekends. I did expect that uncertainty would affect monday IV more than friday, but... It is quite the opposite.

Really confused still....anyone have a logical explanation?