Symbol count and average daily range, by price bucket

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 Non-Marginable Securities: Reg T vs House.

Rows × columns

6 × 3

Computed

2026-08-22

Completeness

No missing values

Source

US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data

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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 2026-08-22, and the query below is what returned them.

SELECT
    multiIf(last_close <  1, 'Under $1',
            last_close <  3, '$1 to $3',
            last_close <  5, '$3 to $5',
            last_close < 10, '$5 to $10',
            last_close < 50, '$10 to $50',
                             '$50 and up')  AS price_bucket,
    count()                                 AS listing_count,
    round(avg(avg_range_pct), 2)            AS avg_daily_range_pct
FROM
(
    SELECT
        ticker,
        argMax(close, date)                                 AS last_close,
        avg(100 * toFloat64(high - low) / toFloat64(close)) AS avg_range_pct
    FROM global_markets.stocks_daily_aggs
    WHERE date >= today() - 120
      AND volume > 0
      AND close > 0
    GROUP BY ticker
    HAVING count() >= 40
)
GROUP BY price_bucket
ORDER BY min(last_close)