The session envelope, read from SPY minute bars (last two weeks, ET)
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).
first bar et
04:00
last bar et
19:59
first bar minute of day
240
last bar minute of day
1,199
completed sessions
10
first session
2026-08-10
last session
2026-08-21
- Rows × columns
- 1 × 7
- Period covered
- Computed
- Completeness
- No missing values
- Source
- US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
- Licence
- Strasmore terms · free, no signup
What each column holds
| Column | Type | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
first_bar_et |
text | 1 distinct value (04:00) | |
last_bar_et |
text | 1 distinct value (19:59) | |
first_bar_minute_of_day |
number | every row is 240 | |
last_bar_minute_of_day |
number | every row is 1,199 | |
completed_sessions |
number | every row is 10 | |
first_session |
date | 2026-08-10 | |
last_session |
date | 2026-08-21 |
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
SELECT
min(formatDateTime(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'), '%H:%i')) AS first_bar_et,
max(formatDateTime(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'), '%H:%i')) AS last_bar_et,
min(toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60 + toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))) AS first_bar_minute_of_day,
max(toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60 + toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))) AS last_bar_minute_of_day,
uniqExact(toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))) AS completed_sessions,
toString(min(toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')))) AS first_session,
toString(max(toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')))) AS last_session
FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
WHERE ticker = 'SPY'
AND window_start >= now() - INTERVAL 14 DAY
AND toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) < toDate(toTimeZone(now(), 'America/New_York'))
AND (toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60 + toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))) BETWEEN 240 AND 1199
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