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.
| ticker | spread_bps | avg_daily_shares |
|---|---|---|
| SPY | 0.29 | 64.43 million |
| VOO | 0.57 | 8.77 million |
| VV | 1.69 | 393.02 thousand |
| EPHE | 5.88 | 113.12 thousand |
| IWC | 30.89 | 131.11 thousand |
- Rows × columns
- 5 × 3
- Computed
- Completeness
- No missing values
- Source
- US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds
| Column | Type | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
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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