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SPY options vs. SPY stock on one session: quote count, trade count, and median quoted spread

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 2026-08-14, from How Much Does It Cost to Trade Options?.

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session date
2026-07-02
spy opt updates
462.93M
spy stock updates
4.96M
opt to stock update ratio
93.4
spy opt trades
1.80M
quotes per trade
256.5
spy opt median spread bps
80.97
spy stock median spread bps
0.27
ratio opt to stock spread
299.9
spy underlying close
744.8
Rows × columns
1 × 10
Period covered
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 SPY options vs. SPY stock on one session: quote count, trade count, and median quoted spread, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
session_date date 2026-07-02
spy_opt_updates number every row is 462,934,241
spy_stock_updates number every row is 4,956,892
opt_to_stock_update_ratio number every row is 93.4 ratio or rate
spy_opt_trades number every row is 1,804,557 count
quotes_per_trade number every row is 256.5
spy_opt_median_spread_bps number every row is 80.97
spy_stock_median_spread_bps number every row is 0.27
ratio_opt_to_stock_spread number every row is 299.9 ratio or rate
spy_underlying_close number every row is 744.8 US dollars

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
    opt_q AS (
        SELECT
            count() AS opt_updates,
            quantileDeterministic(0.5)((toFloat64(ask_price) - toFloat64(bid_price)) / ((toFloat64(ask_price) + toFloat64(bid_price)) / 2), cityHash64(ticker, sip_timestamp)) AS opt_median_spread_ratio
        FROM global_markets.cache_options_quotes
        WHERE sip_timestamp >= '2026-07-02 13:30:00' AND sip_timestamp < '2026-07-02 20:00:00'
          AND ticker >= 'O:SPY26' AND ticker < 'O:SPY27'
          AND bid_price > 0 AND ask_price > 0 AND ask_price > bid_price
    ),
    stock_q AS (
        SELECT
            count() AS stock_updates,
            quantileDeterministic(0.5)((toFloat64(ask_price) - toFloat64(bid_price)) / ((toFloat64(ask_price) + toFloat64(bid_price)) / 2), cityHash64(ticker, sip_timestamp)) AS stock_median_spread_ratio
        FROM global_markets.cache_stocks_quotes
        WHERE sip_timestamp >= '2026-07-02 13:30:00' AND sip_timestamp < '2026-07-02 20:00:00'
          AND ticker = 'SPY'
          AND bid_price > 0 AND ask_price > 0 AND ask_price > bid_price
    ),
    opt_t AS (
        SELECT count() AS opt_trades FROM global_markets.options_trades
        WHERE sip_timestamp >= '2026-07-02 13:30:00' AND sip_timestamp < '2026-07-02 20:00:00'
          AND ticker >= 'O:SPY26' AND ticker < 'O:SPY27'
    ),
    stock_close AS (
        SELECT round(argMax(toFloat64(close), window_start), 2) AS spy_close
        FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
        WHERE ticker = 'SPY' AND window_start >= '2026-07-02 13:30:00' AND window_start < '2026-07-02 20:00:00'
    )
SELECT
    '2026-07-02' AS session_date,
    opt_q.opt_updates AS spy_opt_updates,
    stock_q.stock_updates AS spy_stock_updates,
    round(opt_q.opt_updates / stock_q.stock_updates, 1) AS opt_to_stock_update_ratio,
    opt_t.opt_trades AS spy_opt_trades,
    round(opt_q.opt_updates / opt_t.opt_trades, 1) AS quotes_per_trade,
    round(opt_q.opt_median_spread_ratio * 10000, 2) AS spy_opt_median_spread_bps,
    round(stock_q.stock_median_spread_ratio * 10000, 2) AS spy_stock_median_spread_bps,
    round(opt_q.opt_median_spread_ratio / stock_q.stock_median_spread_ratio, 1) AS ratio_opt_to_stock_spread,
    stock_close.spy_close AS spy_underlying_close
FROM opt_q CROSS JOIN stock_q CROSS JOIN opt_t CROSS JOIN stock_close

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