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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.

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The best bid and the price levels it visited, AAPL, 15 minute buckets — 24 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
et_timebest_bidbid_levels_touched
10:00290.29187
10:15290.13160
10:30289.59188
10:45289.17145
11:00289.87158
11:15290.1298
11:30290.41178
11:45290.77144
12:00291.05114
12:15291.08119
12:30292.23164
12:45292.5111
13:00292.28105
13:15292.35152
13:30292.8268
13:45293.32156
14:00294.3480
14:15294.3676
14:30293.7796
14:45293.18103
15:00292.9178
15:15292.15125
15:30292.2287
15:45292.07152
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 definitions for The best bid and the price levels it visited, AAPL, 15 minute buckets, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
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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