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How often the close finished above the 3:50 p.m. price, July 2026 sessions

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.

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How often the close finished above the 3:50 p.m. price, July 2026 sessions — 6 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
tickerpct_closed_higherpct_moved_over_10bps
PG68.272.7
JNJ63.668.2
XOM59.181.8
JPM59.159.1
KO54.572.7
WMT31.854.5
Rows × columns
6 × 3
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds

Column definitions for How often the close finished above the 3:50 p.m. price, July 2026 sessions, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
ticker text 6 distinct values (JNJ, JPM, KO…)
pct_closed_higher number 31.8 to 68.2 percent
pct_moved_over_10bps number 54.5 to 81.8 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
    d.sym AS ticker,
    round(100 * countIf(d.official_close > m.px_1550) / count(), 1)                       AS pct_closed_higher,
    round(100 * countIf(abs(d.official_close / m.px_1550 - 1) * 10000 > 10) / count(), 1) AS pct_moved_over_10bps
FROM
(
    SELECT
        ticker                AS sym,
        date                  AS session_date,
        max(toFloat64(close)) AS official_close
    FROM global_markets.stocks_daily_aggs
    WHERE ticker IN ('JNJ', 'JPM', 'KO', 'PG', 'WMT', 'XOM')
      AND date >= '2026-07-01'
      AND date <  '2026-08-01'
    GROUP BY sym, session_date
) AS d
INNER JOIN
(
    SELECT
        ticker                                               AS sym,
        toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) AS session_date,
        max(toFloat64(close))                                AS px_1550
    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'
      AND toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))   = 15
      AND toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) = 50
    GROUP BY sym, session_date
) AS m ON m.sym = d.sym AND m.session_date = d.session_date
GROUP BY d.sym
ORDER BY pct_closed_higher DESC

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