overnight_gaps
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 2026-09-28, from can-you-buy-a-put-without-owning-the-stock.
| symbol | avg_overnight_gap_pct | largest_up_gap_pct | largest_down_gap_pct |
|---|---|---|---|
| MSFT | 0.78 | 12.1 | 8.6 |
| NVDA | 1.07 | 6.3 | 4.2 |
| KO | 0.44 | 5.4 | 1.9 |
| AAPL | 0.51 | 3.3 | 8.6 |
| SPY | 0.39 | 2.6 | 1.6 |
- Rows × columns
- 5 × 4
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
symbol |
text | 5 distinct values (AAPL, KO, MSFT…) | |
avg_overnight_gap_pct |
number | 0.39 to 1.07 | percent |
largest_up_gap_pct |
number | 2.6 to 12.1 | percent |
largest_down_gap_pct |
number | 1.6 to 8.6 | percent |
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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SELECT
symbol,
round(avg(abs(gap_pct)), 2) AS avg_overnight_gap_pct,
round(max(gap_pct), 1) AS largest_up_gap_pct,
round(abs(min(gap_pct)), 1) AS largest_down_gap_pct
FROM
(
SELECT
ticker AS symbol,
100 * (open / prev_close - 1) AS gap_pct
FROM
(
SELECT
ticker,
date,
open,
any(close) OVER (PARTITION BY ticker ORDER BY date
ROWS BETWEEN 1 PRECEDING AND 1 PRECEDING) AS prev_close
FROM
(
SELECT
ticker,
date,
toFloat64(any(open)) AS open,
toFloat64(any(close)) AS close
FROM global_markets.stocks_daily_aggs
WHERE ticker IN ('AAPL', 'KO', 'MSFT', 'NVDA', 'SPY')
AND date >= today() - 400
GROUP BY ticker, date
)
)
WHERE prev_close > 0
)
GROUP BY symbol
ORDER BY largest_up_gap_pct DESC
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