Small AAPL print sizes: five sessions in January 2026 against five in July 2026
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 2026-08-12, from How Fractional Shares Hit the Tape.
| shares | prints_early_january | prints_early_july |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 2 | 1191620 |
| 1 | 1360015 | 331200 |
| 2 | 121418 | 132674 |
| 3 | 87856 | 84397 |
| 4 | 59437 | 71133 |
| 5 | 100022 | 92309 |
| 6 | 35753 | 37368 |
| 7 | 33461 | 28735 |
| 8 | 24889 | 29334 |
| 9 | 22939 | 26734 |
| 10 | 146700 | 101482 |
| 11 | 19013 | 21309 |
| 12 | 20312 | 26355 |
| 13 | 14678 | 17757 |
| 14 | 14452 | 17331 |
| 15 | 28471 | 29376 |
| 16 | 17278 | 19680 |
| 17 | 14939 | 16017 |
| 18 | 14806 | 14261 |
| 19 | 14047 | 17258 |
| 20 | 70617 | 212021 |
| 21 | 11622 | 10907 |
| 22 | 11935 | 11005 |
| 23 | 9922 | 10129 |
| 24 | 11846 | 16717 |
| 25 | 98695 | 54423 |
- Rows × columns
- 26 × 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
shares |
number | 0 to 25 | count |
prints_early_january |
number | 2 to 1,360,015 | |
prints_early_july |
number | 10,129 to 1,191,620 |
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
SELECT
scaffold.shares AS shares,
toUInt64(ifNull(t.jan_prints, 0)) AS prints_early_january,
toUInt64(ifNull(t.jul_prints, 0)) AS prints_early_july
FROM
(
SELECT toUInt32(arrayJoin(range(0, 26))) AS shares
) AS scaffold
LEFT JOIN
(
SELECT
toUInt32(floor(toFloat64(size))) AS shares,
countIf(sip_timestamp < '2026-02-01 00:00:00') AS jan_prints,
countIf(sip_timestamp >= '2026-07-01 00:00:00') AS jul_prints
FROM global_markets.stocks_trades
WHERE ticker = 'AAPL'
AND ((sip_timestamp >= '2026-01-05 00:00:00' AND sip_timestamp < '2026-01-10 00:00:00')
OR (sip_timestamp >= '2026-07-06 00:00:00' AND sip_timestamp < '2026-07-11 00:00:00'))
AND toFloat64(size) < 26
GROUP BY shares
) AS t ON t.shares = scaffold.shares
ORDER BY shares
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