As a caution, not all option expirations are created equal, in terms of the shenanigans and market moves that they precipitate.
The breakout in gold and silver came off an option expiration.
“All governments suffer a recurring problem: power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."
Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, March 1985