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NBBO quote updates for eight heavily-quoted tickers (millions)

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.

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NBBO quote updates for eight heavily-quoted tickers (millions) — 8 rows by 2 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
tickerupdates_m
QQQ5.23
SPY5.07
TQQQ3.91
IWM3.4
SQQQ3.29
NVDA1.8
AAPL1.13
TSLA0.59
Rows × columns
8 × 2
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
Licence
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Formats
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What each column holds

Column definitions for NBBO quote updates for eight heavily-quoted tickers (millions), derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
ticker text 8 distinct values (AAPL, IWM, NVDA…)
updates_m number 0.59 to 5.23

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 ticker, round(count() / 1e6, 2) AS updates_m
FROM global_markets.cache_stocks_quotes
WHERE ticker IN ('QQQ', 'SPY', 'TQQQ', 'IWM', 'SQQQ', 'NVDA', 'AAPL', 'TSLA')
  AND sip_timestamp >= '2026-06-29 00:00:00' AND sip_timestamp < '2026-06-30 00:00:00'
GROUP BY ticker
ORDER BY updates_m DESC

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