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quote_gap

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 2026-09-28, from how-exchange-speed-bumps-work.

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quote_gap — 5 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
symbolquote_message_countavg_ms_between_quotes
SPY13384012.69
NVDA8068024.462
AAPL30785511.694
KO11773830.576
MSFT7728246.583
Rows × columns
5 × 3
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
Licence
Strasmore terms · free, no signup
Formats
JSON · CSV · the SQL below

What each column holds

Column definitions for quote_gap, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
symbol text 5 distinct values (AAPL, KO, MSFT…)
quote_message_count number 77,282 to 1,338,401 count
avg_ms_between_quotes number 2.69 to 46.583

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.

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SELECT
    ticker                        AS symbol,
    count()                       AS quote_message_count,
    round(3600000.0 / count(), 3) AS avg_ms_between_quotes
FROM global_markets.cache_stocks_quotes
WHERE ticker IN ('AAPL', 'MSFT', 'NVDA', 'SPY', 'KO')
  AND sip_timestamp >= '2026-06-10 15:00:00'
  AND sip_timestamp <  '2026-06-10 16:00:00'
GROUP BY symbol
ORDER BY avg_ms_between_quotes ASC
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