Quoted spread and the half spread floor, six household names, one midday hour
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 2026-10-08, from How Much Slippage to Assume in a Backtest.
| ticker | avg_spread_cents | half_spread_bps |
|---|---|---|
| JNJ | 17.92 | 3.36 |
| MSFT | 12.82 | 1.3 |
| KO | 1.22 | 0.69 |
| AAPL | 4.54 | 0.68 |
| NVDA | 1.57 | 0.36 |
| SPY | 1.71 | 0.11 |
- Rows × columns
- 6 × 3
- Computed
- Completeness
- No missing values
- Source
- US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
- Licence
- Strasmore terms · free, no signup
What each column holds
| Column | Type | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
ticker |
text | 6 distinct values (AAPL, JNJ, KO…) | |
avg_spread_cents |
number | 1.22 to 17.92 | |
half_spread_bps |
number | 0.11 to 3.36 |
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,
round(avg(toFloat64(ask_price - bid_price)) * 100, 2) AS avg_spread_cents,
round(avg(toFloat64(ask_price - bid_price) / toFloat64(ask_price + bid_price)) * 10000, 2) AS half_spread_bps
FROM global_markets.cache_stocks_quotes
WHERE ticker IN ('SPY', 'AAPL', 'MSFT', 'NVDA', 'KO', 'JNJ')
AND sip_timestamp >= toDateTime('2026-09-16 14:00:00', 'UTC')
AND sip_timestamp < toDateTime('2026-09-16 15:00:00', 'UTC')
AND bid_price > 0
AND ask_price > bid_price
GROUP BY ticker
ORDER BY half_spread_bps DESC
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