The first session with a populated participant timestamp

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 2026-09-15, from How to Read the US Equity Trade Tape.

Rows × columns

1 × 2

Period covered

2015-07-27

Computed

2026-09-15

Completeness

No missing values

Source

US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data

Licence

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Formats

JSON · CSV · the SQL below

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 2026-09-15, and the query below is what returned them.

SELECT
    toString(min(toDate(sip_timestamp)))    AS first_populated_session,
    count()                                 AS populated_prints
FROM global_markets.stocks_trades
WHERE ticker IN ('IBM', 'MSFT', 'AAPL', 'GE', 'XOM')
  AND sip_timestamp >= '2015-07-20' AND sip_timestamp < '2015-08-08'
  AND toUnixTimestamp64Nano(participant_timestamp) != 0