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The options NBBO stream: July 7 against July 6, and against the same session's equity quotes

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 7, 2026, The Day in Numbers.

as of scalar 1×6read in context →
jul7 option quote rows
8.69B
jul7 option quote updates bn
8.69
jul6 option quote updates bn
6.49
day over day pct
34
jul7 stock quote updates m
492.76
jul7 option to stock ratio
17.6
Rows × columns
1 × 6
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
Licence
Strasmore terms · free, no signup
Formats
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What each column holds

Column definitions for The options NBBO stream: July 7 against July 6, and against the same session's equity quotes, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
jul7_option_quote_rows number every row is 8,694,614,147
jul7_option_quote_updates_bn number every row is 8.69
jul6_option_quote_updates_bn number every row is 6.49
day_over_day_pct number every row is 34 percent
jul7_stock_quote_updates_m number every row is 492.76
jul7_option_to_stock_ratio number every row is 17.6 ratio or rate

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
WITH
    (
        SELECT count()
        FROM global_markets.cache_options_quotes
        WHERE toYYYYMMDD(sip_timestamp) = 20260707
    ) AS jul7_option_rows,
    (
        SELECT count()
        FROM global_markets.cache_options_quotes
        WHERE toYYYYMMDD(sip_timestamp) = 20260706
    ) AS jul6_option_rows,
    (
        SELECT count()
        FROM global_markets.cache_stocks_quotes
        WHERE toYYYYMMDD(sip_timestamp) = 20260707
    ) AS jul7_stock_quote_rows
SELECT
    jul7_option_rows AS jul7_option_quote_rows,
    round(jul7_option_rows / 1e9, 2) AS jul7_option_quote_updates_bn,
    round(jul6_option_rows / 1e9, 2) AS jul6_option_quote_updates_bn,
    round((jul7_option_rows / jul6_option_rows - 1) * 100, 1) AS day_over_day_pct,
    round(jul7_stock_quote_rows / 1e6, 2) AS jul7_stock_quote_updates_m,
    round(jul7_option_rows / jul7_stock_quote_rows, 1) AS jul7_option_to_stock_ratio

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