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Monthly expirations where the post close print crossed a whole dollar

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 Broker Exercise Cut-Off Times Explained.

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Monthly expirations where the post close print crossed a whole dollar — 6 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
tickerexpirations_measureddollar_line_crossings
SPY2111
AAPL2110
MSFT219
TSLA218
NVDA215
KO211
Rows × columns
6 × 3
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 Monthly expirations where the post close print crossed a whole dollar, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
ticker text 6 distinct values (AAPL, KO, MSFT…)
expirations_measured number every row is 21
dollar_line_crossings number 1 to 11

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
    ticker,
    count()                                      AS expirations_measured,
    countIf(floor(close_px) != floor(post_px))   AS dollar_line_crossings
FROM
(
    SELECT
        ticker,
        session_date,
        argMaxIf(px, ts, et_minute >= 570 AND et_minute < 960)  AS close_px,
        argMaxIf(px, ts, et_minute >= 960 AND et_minute < 1050) AS post_px
    FROM
    (
        SELECT
            ticker,
            toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))       AS session_date,
            toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60
              + toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) AS et_minute,
            toFloat64(close)                                           AS px,
            window_start                                               AS ts
        FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
        WHERE ticker IN ('AAPL', 'KO', 'MSFT', 'NVDA', 'SPY', 'TSLA')
          AND window_start >= today() - 730
          AND toDayOfWeek(toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))) = 5
          AND toDayOfMonth(toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))) BETWEEN 15 AND 21
    )
    GROUP BY ticker, session_date
    HAVING countIf(et_minute >= 960 AND et_minute < 1050) > 0
       AND countIf(et_minute >= 570 AND et_minute < 960) > 0
)
GROUP BY ticker
ORDER BY dollar_line_crossings DESC, ticker

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