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Gap between the last regular-session minute and the official close

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 2026-11-01, from Can You Use a Limit Order on a Mutual Fund?.

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Gap between the last regular-session minute and the official close — 6 rows by 4 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
tickeravg_gap_bpswidest_gap_bpsobservations
VTI0.93.752
DIA0.71.752
QQQ0.71.852
VOO0.62.152
IVV0.64.252
SPY0.62.252
Rows × columns
6 × 4
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 Gap between the last regular-session minute and the official close, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
ticker text 6 distinct values (DIA, IVV, QQQ…)
avg_gap_bps number 0.6 to 0.9
widest_gap_bps number 1.7 to 4.2
observations number every row is 52

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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WITH last_regular_minute AS
(
    SELECT
        ticker,
        toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) AS d,
        argMax(toFloat64(close), window_start)               AS minute_close
    FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
    WHERE ticker IN ('SPY', 'IVV', 'VOO', 'QQQ', 'VTI', 'DIA')
      AND window_start >= today() - 75
      AND (toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60
           + toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))) >= 570
      AND (toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60
           + toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))) < 960
    GROUP BY ticker, d
)
SELECT
    a.ticker                                                                AS ticker,
    round(avg(abs(toFloat64(a.close) / m.minute_close - 1) * 10000), 1)     AS avg_gap_bps,
    round(max(abs(toFloat64(a.close) / m.minute_close - 1) * 10000), 1)     AS widest_gap_bps,
    count()                                                                 AS observations
FROM global_markets.stocks_daily_aggs AS a
INNER JOIN last_regular_minute AS m ON m.ticker = a.ticker AND m.d = a.date
WHERE a.ticker IN ('SPY', 'IVV', 'VOO', 'QQQ', 'VTI', 'DIA')
  AND a.date >= today() - 75
  AND a.date <= today() - 3
GROUP BY a.ticker
ORDER BY avg_gap_bps DESC
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