The steepest single minutes: biggest open-to-low drops, 2:00–3:30 pm ET

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 2026-07-26, from The 2010 Flash Crash, Minute by Minute.

Rows × columns

5 × 5

Computed

2026-07-26

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

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 2026-07-26, and the query below is what returned them.

SELECT
    formatDateTime(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'), '%H:%i') AS et_minute,
    round(toFloat64(open), 2) AS minute_open,
    round(toFloat64(low), 2) AS minute_low,
    round(toFloat64(open) - toFloat64(low), 2) AS drop_within_minute_usd,
    round(toFloat64(volume) / 1e6, 2) AS shares_m
FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
WHERE ticker = 'SPY'
  AND window_start >= toDateTime('2010-05-06 18:00:00') AND window_start < toDateTime('2010-05-06 19:30:00')
ORDER BY drop_within_minute_usd DESC
LIMIT 5