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AAPL median quoted spread: regular session vs extended hours (past week, full sessions)

Answered against 22 years of US equities and 12 years of US options data and published with the query that produced it. This result is stored as of 2026-08-22, from Premarket and After-Hours Trading Hours (ET).

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AAPL median quoted spread: regular session vs extended hours (past week, full sessions) — 2 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
trading_sessionmedian_spread_centsmedian_spread_bps
extended hours (premarket + after-hours)154.9
regular session (9:30 am - 4:00 pm ET)30.9
Rows × columns
2 × 3
Period covered
to
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
Licence
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Formats
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What each column holds

Column definitions for AAPL median quoted spread: regular session vs extended hours (past week, full sessions), derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
trading_session date extended h to regular se
median_spread_cents number 3 to 15
median_spread_bps number 0.9 to 4.9

Computed from Strasmore's warehouse of US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data. Equity prices are delayed; options greeks and implied volatility are end-of-day. This result is stored, not recomputed on load — it is exactly the numbers that were returned on , and the query below is what returned them.

the exact SQL behind every number 
WITH full_sessions AS (
    SELECT toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) AS session_date
    FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
    WHERE ticker = 'AAPL'
      AND window_start >= now() - INTERVAL 7 DAY
      AND toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) < toDate(toTimeZone(now(), 'America/New_York'))
    GROUP BY session_date
    HAVING max(toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60 + toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))) >= 1140
)
SELECT trading_session,
       round(quantileDeterministic(0.5)(spread_usd, tsk) * 100, 1) AS median_spread_cents,
       round(quantileDeterministic(0.5)(spread_bps, tsk), 1) AS median_spread_bps
FROM (
    SELECT if(m BETWEEN 570 AND 959, 'regular session (9:30 am - 4:00 pm ET)', 'extended hours (premarket + after-hours)') AS trading_session,
           toFloat64(ask_price - bid_price) AS spread_usd,
           toFloat64(ask_price - bid_price) / (toFloat64(ask_price + bid_price) / 2) * 10000 AS spread_bps,
           toUInt64(sip_timestamp) AS tsk,
           toHour(toTimeZone(sip_timestamp, 'America/New_York')) * 60 + toMinute(toTimeZone(sip_timestamp, 'America/New_York')) AS m
    FROM global_markets.cache_stocks_quotes
    WHERE ticker = 'AAPL'
      AND sip_timestamp >= now() - INTERVAL 7 DAY
      AND toDate(toTimeZone(sip_timestamp, 'America/New_York')) IN (SELECT session_date FROM full_sessions)
      AND bid_price > 0
      AND ask_price > bid_price
      AND (toHour(toTimeZone(sip_timestamp, 'America/New_York')) * 60 + toMinute(toTimeZone(sip_timestamp, 'America/New_York'))) BETWEEN 240 AND 1199
)
GROUP BY trading_session
ORDER BY trading_session

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