Volume leaders two ways: top 6 by dollars traded, top 4 by shares traded (one reused-symbol listing excluded pending entity verification)
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 6, 2026, The Day in Numbers.
| leaderboard | ticker | dollar_volume_bn | shares_m | pct_of_board_leader |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| by dollars traded | SPY | 31.49 | 42 | 100 |
| by dollars traded | MU | 30.9 | 30.9 | 98.1 |
| by dollars traded | TSLA | 19.17 | 46.6 | 60.9 |
| by dollars traded | QQQ | 18.79 | 26 | 59.7 |
| by dollars traded | NVDA | 15.14 | 77.2 | 48.1 |
| by dollars traded | AMD | 14.26 | 25.5 | 45.3 |
| by shares traded | SOXS | 1.86 | 467.1 | 100 |
| by shares traded | BITO | 3.06 | 358.5 | 76.8 |
| by shares traded | SBEV | 0.07 | 281.9 | 60.4 |
| by shares traded | TZA | 0.62 | 161.6 | 34.6 |
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What each column holds
| Column | Type | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
leaderboard |
text | 2 distinct values (by dollars traded, by shares traded) | |
ticker |
text | 10 distinct values (AMD, BITO, MU…) | |
dollar_volume_bn |
number | 0.07 to 31.49 | count |
shares_m |
number | 25.5 to 467.1 | count |
pct_of_board_leader |
number | 34.6 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 , and the query below is what returned them.
the exact SQL behind every number
SELECT leaderboard, ticker, dollar_volume_bn, 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(volume)) / 1e6, 1) AS shares_m
FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
WHERE window_start >= '2026-07-06 13:30:00' AND window_start < '2026-07-06 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(volume)) / 1e6, 1) AS shares_m
FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
WHERE window_start >= '2026-07-06 13:30:00' AND window_start < '2026-07-06 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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