The best bid and the price levels it visited, AAPL, 15 minute buckets
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 2026-08-12, from How to Estimate Queue Position From L2 Data.
| et_time | best_bid | bid_levels_touched |
|---|---|---|
| 10:00 | 290.29 | 187 |
| 10:15 | 290.13 | 160 |
| 10:30 | 289.59 | 188 |
| 10:45 | 289.17 | 145 |
| 11:00 | 289.87 | 158 |
| 11:15 | 290.12 | 98 |
| 11:30 | 290.41 | 178 |
| 11:45 | 290.77 | 144 |
| 12:00 | 291.05 | 114 |
| 12:15 | 291.08 | 119 |
| 12:30 | 292.23 | 164 |
| 12:45 | 292.5 | 111 |
| 13:00 | 292.28 | 105 |
| 13:15 | 292.35 | 152 |
| 13:30 | 292.82 | 68 |
| 13:45 | 293.32 | 156 |
| 14:00 | 294.34 | 80 |
| 14:15 | 294.36 | 76 |
| 14:30 | 293.77 | 96 |
| 14:45 | 293.18 | 103 |
| 15:00 | 292.91 | 78 |
| 15:15 | 292.15 | 125 |
| 15:30 | 292.22 | 87 |
| 15:45 | 292.07 | 152 |
- Rows × columns
- 24 × 3
- Period covered
- to
- Computed
- Completeness
- No missing values
- Source
- US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds
| Column | Type | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
et_time |
date | 10:00 to 15:45 | |
best_bid |
number | 289.17 to 294.36 | |
bid_levels_touched |
number | 68 to 188 |
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
SELECT
formatDateTime(toStartOfFifteenMinutes(toTimeZone(sip_timestamp, 'America/New_York')), '%H:%i') AS et_time,
round(avg(toFloat64(bid_price)), 2) AS best_bid,
uniqExact(bid_price) AS bid_levels_touched
FROM global_markets.cache_stocks_quotes
WHERE ticker = 'AAPL'
AND sip_timestamp >= '2026-06-10 14:00:00'
AND sip_timestamp < '2026-06-10 20:00:00'
AND bid_price > 0
GROUP BY et_time
ORDER BY et_time
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