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Cash needed to hold 100 shares, six household names

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 Options Approval Levels: What Each Tier Allows.

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Cash needed to hold 100 shares, six household names — 6 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
tickercost_of_100_shares_kpriced_on
SPY76.6Aug 21, 2026
MSFT48.2Aug 21, 2026
AAPL31.2Aug 21, 2026
NVDA21.8Aug 21, 2026
KO9.1Aug 21, 2026
F1.4Aug 21, 2026
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 Cash needed to hold 100 shares, six household names, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
ticker text 6 distinct values (AAPL, F, KO…)
cost_of_100_shares_k number 1.4 to 76.6 count
priced_on text 1 distinct value (Aug 21, 2026)

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(toFloat64(argMax(close, date)) / 10, 1) AS cost_of_100_shares_k,
    formatDateTime(max(date), '%b %e, %Y')        AS priced_on
FROM global_markets.stocks_daily_aggs
WHERE ticker IN ('AAPL', 'MSFT', 'NVDA', 'KO', 'SPY', 'F')
  AND date >= today() - 20
GROUP BY ticker
ORDER BY cost_of_100_shares_k DESC

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