Share of regular-session volume printed in the opening and closing auction minutes, July 2026
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 2026-08-19, from NYSE Imbalance Messages: How to Read Them.
| ticker | opening_bar_pct | closing_bar_pct |
|---|---|---|
| JPM | 3.32 | 2.66 |
| JNJ | 3.24 | 2.56 |
| KO | 3.86 | 1.94 |
| WMT | 3.16 | 1.55 |
| PG | 3.01 | 0.52 |
| XOM | 1.39 | 0 |
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- 6 × 3
- Computed
- Completeness
- No missing values
- Source
- US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds
| Column | Type | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
ticker |
text | 6 distinct values (JNJ, JPM, KO…) | |
opening_bar_pct |
number | 1.39 to 3.86 | percent |
closing_bar_pct |
number | 0 to 2.66 | percent |
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(100 * toFloat64(sumIf(volume, minute_of_day = 570)) / toFloat64(sum(volume)), 2) AS opening_bar_pct,
round(100 * toFloat64(sumIf(volume, minute_of_day = 960)) / toFloat64(sum(volume)), 2) AS closing_bar_pct
FROM
(
SELECT
ticker,
volume,
toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60
+ toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) AS minute_of_day
FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
WHERE ticker IN ('JNJ', 'JPM', 'KO', 'PG', 'WMT', 'XOM')
AND window_start >= '2026-07-01'
AND window_start < '2026-08-01'
)
WHERE minute_of_day BETWEEN 570 AND 960
GROUP BY ticker
ORDER BY closing_bar_pct DESC
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