gap_distribution
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 2026-10-08, from dse-last-trade-price-vs-closing-price.
| gap_bucket | ticker_sessions | share_of_sessions_pct |
|---|---|---|
| 0.0 to 0.5 bps | 107 | 27.9 |
| 0.5 to 2 bps | 146 | 38 |
| 2 to 5 bps | 90 | 23.4 |
| 5 to 10 bps | 26 | 6.8 |
| 10 to 25 bps | 14 | 3.6 |
| 25 bps and up | 1 | 0.3 |
- Rows × columns
- 6 × 3
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
gap_bucket |
text | 6 distinct values | |
ticker_sessions |
number | 1 to 146 | |
share_of_sessions_pct |
number | 0.3 to 38 | 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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WITH
last_prints AS
(
SELECT
ticker,
toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) AS session_date,
argMax(close, window_start) AS last_regular_print
FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
WHERE ticker IN ('AAPL', 'MSFT', 'NVDA', 'SPY', 'KO', 'JNJ')
AND window_start >= '2026-07-01 00:00:00'
AND window_start < '2026-10-01 00:00:00'
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, session_date
),
daily_bars AS
(
SELECT
ticker,
date AS session_date,
any(close) AS daily_bar_close
FROM global_markets.stocks_daily_aggs
WHERE ticker IN ('AAPL', 'MSFT', 'NVDA', 'SPY', 'KO', 'JNJ')
AND date >= '2026-07-01'
AND date < '2026-10-01'
GROUP BY ticker, session_date
),
gaps AS
(
SELECT
l.session_date AS session_date,
abs(toFloat64(d.daily_bar_close) / toFloat64(l.last_regular_print) - 1) * 10000 AS gap_bps
FROM last_prints AS l
INNER JOIN daily_bars AS d
ON l.ticker = d.ticker AND l.session_date = d.session_date
WHERE toFloat64(l.last_regular_print) > 0
),
totals AS
(
SELECT count() AS all_rows
FROM gaps
)
SELECT
multiIf(g.gap_bps < 0.5, '0.0 to 0.5 bps',
g.gap_bps < 2, '0.5 to 2 bps',
g.gap_bps < 5, '2 to 5 bps',
g.gap_bps < 10, '5 to 10 bps',
g.gap_bps < 25, '10 to 25 bps',
'25 bps and up') AS gap_bucket,
count() AS ticker_sessions,
round(100 * count() / any(t.all_rows), 1) AS share_of_sessions_pct
FROM gaps AS g
CROSS JOIN totals AS t
GROUP BY gap_bucket
ORDER BY min(g.gap_bps)
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