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Quoted spread against average share volume, US listed ETFs

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 2026-08-07, from How ETF Creation and Redemption Works.

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Quoted spread against average share volume, US listed ETFs — 5 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
tickerspread_bpsavg_daily_shares
SPY0.2964.43 million
VOO0.578.77 million
VV1.69393.02 thousand
EPHE5.88113.12 thousand
IWC30.89131.11 thousand
Rows × columns
5 × 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 Quoted spread against average share volume, US listed ETFs, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
ticker text 5 distinct values (EPHE, IWC, SPY…)
spread_bps number 0.29 to 30.89
avg_daily_shares text 5 distinct values

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
WITH
    quoted AS
    (
        SELECT
            ticker,
            round(10000 * avg(2 * toFloat64(ask_price - bid_price) / toFloat64(ask_price + bid_price)), 2) AS spread_bps
        FROM global_markets.cache_stocks_quotes
        WHERE ticker IN ('SPY', 'VOO', 'VV', 'SPLG', 'IWC', 'EPHE')
          AND sip_timestamp >= '2026-06-17 15:00:00'
          AND sip_timestamp <  '2026-06-17 16:00:00'
          AND bid_price > 0
          AND ask_price > bid_price
        GROUP BY ticker
    ),
    traded AS
    (
        SELECT
            ticker,
            formatReadableQuantity(round(avg(volume))) AS avg_daily_shares
        FROM global_markets.stocks_daily_aggs
        WHERE ticker IN ('SPY', 'VOO', 'VV', 'SPLG', 'IWC', 'EPHE')
          AND date >= '2026-03-17'
          AND date <  '2026-06-18'
        GROUP BY ticker
    )
SELECT
    q.ticker           AS ticker,
    q.spread_bps       AS spread_bps,
    t.avg_daily_shares AS avg_daily_shares
FROM quoted AS q
INNER JOIN traded AS t ON t.ticker = q.ticker
ORDER BY q.spread_bps ASC

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