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first_print_drift

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 2026-09-30, from asx-options-expiry-and-settlement.

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first_print_drift — 8 rows by 2 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
symbolavg_move_bps
NVDA83.8
MSFT75.8
XOM67.5
AAPL66.4
WMT61.8
JNJ58.4
PG57.9
KO49.9
Rows × columns
8 × 2
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
Licence
Strasmore terms · free, no signup
Formats
JSON · CSV · the SQL below

What each column holds

Column definitions for first_print_drift, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
symbol text 8 distinct values (AAPL, JNJ, KO…)
avg_move_bps number 49.9 to 83.8

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.

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This is the exact query behind the result above. Change a ticker, a date or a column and run it against the warehouse — no account, no key. The no-signup tier is smaller than the one this page was computed on; a query that reaches past it comes back saying which plan runs it.

WITH opening_window AS (
    SELECT
        ticker                                               AS symbol,
        toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) AS session_day,
        (toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60
         + toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))) AS et_minute,
        toFloat64(open)                                      AS bar_open,
        toFloat64(close)                                     AS bar_close
    FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
    WHERE ticker IN ('AAPL', 'MSFT', 'NVDA', 'KO', 'JNJ', 'PG', 'WMT', 'XOM')
      AND window_start >= today() - 300
      AND window_start <  today() - 2
      AND (toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60
           + toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))) BETWEEN 570 AND 600
)
SELECT
    symbol,
    round(avg(abs(half_hour_price / first_print - 1) * 10000), 1) AS avg_move_bps
FROM
(
    SELECT
        symbol,
        session_day,
        argMin(bar_open, et_minute)  AS first_print,
        argMax(bar_close, et_minute) AS half_hour_price
    FROM opening_window
    GROUP BY symbol, session_day
    HAVING first_print > 0
)
GROUP BY symbol
ORDER BY avg_move_bps DESC
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