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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)

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.

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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 5 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
leaderboardtickerdollar_volume_bnshares_mpct_of_board_leader
by dollars tradedSPY31.4942100
by dollars tradedMU30.930.998.1
by dollars tradedTSLA19.1746.660.9
by dollars tradedQQQ18.792659.7
by dollars tradedNVDA15.1477.248.1
by dollars tradedAMD14.2625.545.3
by shares tradedSOXS1.86467.1100
by shares tradedBITO3.06358.576.8
by shares tradedSBEV0.07281.960.4
by shares tradedTZA0.62161.634.6
Rows × columns
10 × 5
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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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.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
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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