AAPL: NBBO quote updates on the latest session

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 2026-08-22, from How Do Market Makers Make Money? The Spread.

Rows × columns

1 × 4

Period covered

2026-08-19

Computed

2026-08-22

Completeness

No missing values

Source

US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data

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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 2026-08-22, and the query below is what returned them.

WITH (
  SELECT max(toDate(sip_timestamp))
  FROM global_markets.cache_stocks_quotes
  WHERE ticker = 'AAPL' AND sip_timestamp >= now() - INTERVAL 7 DAY
) AS last_session
SELECT
  toString(last_session) AS session,
  round(sum(updates) / 1e6, 2) AS updates_millions,
  round(sum(updates) / dateDiff('minute', min(second), max(second))) AS avg_per_minute,
  max(updates)                 AS busiest_second
FROM (
  SELECT toStartOfSecond(sip_timestamp) AS second, count() AS updates
  FROM global_markets.cache_stocks_quotes
  WHERE ticker = 'AAPL'
    AND sip_timestamp >= now() - INTERVAL 7 DAY
    AND toDate(sip_timestamp) = last_session
  GROUP BY second
)