Volume leaders two ways: top 6 by dollars traded, top 4 by shares traded (one reused-symbol listing excluded pending entity verification)

Name: Volume leaders two ways: top 6 by dollars traded, top 4 by shares traded (one reused-symbol listing excluded pending entity verification)
Creator: Strasmore
Published: 2026-07-26
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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 2026-07-26, from Market Recap: July 2, 2026, The Day in Numbers.

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Volume leaders two ways: top 6 by dollars traded, top 4 by shares traded (one reused-symbol listing excluded pending entity verification) — 10 rows by 6 columns, computed 2026-07-26 from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
ticker	leaderboard	dollar_volume_bn	dollar_value_m	shares_m	pct_of_board_leader
MU	by dollars traded	51.4	None	51.9	100
SPY	by dollars traded	32.7	None	43.9	63.6
QQQ	by dollars traded	31.3	None	43.7	60.9
SNDK	by dollars traded	26.57	None	14.6	51.7
TSLA	by dollars traded	25.41	None	63.6	49.4
NVDA	by dollars traded	21.18	None	108.6	41.2
SOXS	by shares traded	3.24	None	748.2	100
TZA	by shares traded	1.27	None	325.7	43.5
LIMN	by shares traded	0.04	42	245.7	32.8
BITO	by shares traded	1.71	None	204.9	27.4

Rows × columns: 10 × 6
Computed: 2026-07-26
Completeness: Some fields are partly empty — see the columns below
Source: US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
Licence: Strasmore terms · free, no signup
Formats: JSON · CSV · the SQL below

What each column holds

Column definitions for Volume leaders two ways: top 6 by dollars traded, top 4 by shares traded (one reused-symbol listing excluded pending entity verification), derived from the stored result.
Column	Type	Range	Notes
`ticker`	text	10 distinct values (BITO, LIMN, MU…)
`leaderboard`	text	2 distinct values (by dollars traded, by shares traded)
`dollar_volume_bn`	number	0.04 to 51.4	count
`dollar_value_m`	number	every row is 42	1 of 10 rows populated
`shares_m`	number	14.6 to 748.2	count
`pct_of_board_leader`	number	27.4 to 100	percent

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 2026-07-26, and the query below is what returned them.

the exact SQL behind every number

SELECT ticker, leaderboard, dollar_volume_bn, if(dollar_volume_bn < 1, dollar_volume_m, NULL) AS dollar_value_m, shares_m,
    round(100 * if(leaderboard = 'by dollars traded', dollar_volume_bn, shares_m)
        / max(if(leaderboard = 'by dollars traded', dollar_volume_bn, shares_m)) OVER (PARTITION BY leaderboard), 1) AS pct_of_board_leader
FROM (
    SELECT
        'by dollars traded' AS leaderboard,
        ticker,
        round(sum(toFloat64(close) * toFloat64(volume)) / 1e9, 2) AS dollar_volume_bn,
        round(sum(toFloat64(close) * toFloat64(volume)) / 1e6, 0) AS dollar_volume_m,
        round(sum(toFloat64(volume)) / 1e6, 1) AS shares_m
    FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
    WHERE window_start >= '2026-07-02 13:30:00' AND window_start < '2026-07-02 20:00:00'
      AND ticker NOT IN ('SPCX')
    GROUP BY ticker
    ORDER BY dollar_volume_bn DESC
    LIMIT 6
    UNION ALL
    SELECT
        'by shares traded' AS leaderboard,
        ticker,
        round(sum(toFloat64(close) * toFloat64(volume)) / 1e9, 2) AS dollar_volume_bn,
        round(sum(toFloat64(close) * toFloat64(volume)) / 1e6, 0) AS dollar_volume_m,
        round(sum(toFloat64(volume)) / 1e6, 1) AS shares_m
    FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
    WHERE window_start >= '2026-07-02 13:30:00' AND window_start < '2026-07-02 20:00:00'
      AND ticker NOT IN ('SPCX')
    GROUP BY ticker
    ORDER BY shares_m DESC
    LIMIT 4
)
ORDER BY leaderboard ASC, if(leaderboard = 'by dollars traded', dollar_volume_bn, shares_m) DESC

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