The ten busiest minutes of the trade tape (millions of prints)

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 Microstructure Deep-Dive: June 29, 2026.

Rows × columns

10 × 2

Computed

2026-07-26

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

SELECT
    formatDateTime(toTimeZone(toStartOfMinute(sip_timestamp), 'America/New_York'), '%H:%i') AS et_minute,
    round(count() / 1e6, 2) AS trades_m
FROM global_markets.stocks_trades
WHERE sip_timestamp >= '2026-06-29 00:00:00' AND sip_timestamp < '2026-06-30 00:00:00'
GROUP BY et_minute
ORDER BY trades_m DESC
LIMIT 10