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Minutes traded and distinct prices on the same session

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 2026-08-22, from Mutual Fund Frequent Trading Limits Explained.

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Minutes traded and distinct prices on the same session — 5 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
tickerminutes_tradeddistinct_prices
DIA390230
IWM390250
QQQ390243
SPY390258
VTI390227
Rows × columns
5 × 3
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
Licence
Strasmore terms · free, no signup
Formats
JSON · CSV · the SQL below

What each column holds

Column definitions for Minutes traded and distinct prices on the same session, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
ticker text 5 distinct values (DIA, IWM, QQQ…)
minutes_traded number every row is 390
distinct_prices number 227 to 258

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,
    count()              AS minutes_traded,
    countDistinct(close) AS distinct_prices
FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
WHERE ticker IN ('SPY', 'QQQ', 'IWM', 'DIA', 'VTI')
  AND window_start >= toDateTime('2026-03-17 00:00:00', 'America/New_York')
  AND window_start <  toDateTime('2026-03-18 00:00:00', 'America/New_York')
  AND (toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60
       + toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))) >= 570
  AND (toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60
       + toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))) < 960
GROUP BY ticker
ORDER BY minutes_traded DESC, ticker

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