Options trade size distribution on July 2, 2026 (whole-tape contracts per print)

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?.

Rows × columns

1 × 4

Computed

2026-08-14

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 2026-08-14, and the query below is what returned them.

WITH trades AS (
    SELECT toFloat64(size) AS size FROM global_markets.options_trades
    WHERE sip_timestamp >= '2026-07-02 13:30:00' AND sip_timestamp < '2026-07-02 20:00:00'
)
SELECT
    round(quantileExact(0.50)(size), 0) AS median_contracts,
    round(quantileExact(0.90)(size), 0) AS p90_contracts,
    round(avg(size), 1) AS avg_contracts,
    count() AS total_prints
FROM trades