How often the quoted spread sits at a single cent (10 June 2026 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 2026-08-14, from Does Modifying an Order Lose Queue Priority?.
| symbol | avg_spread_cents | one_tick_wide_pct |
|---|---|---|
| NFLX | 1.3 | 81.4 |
| KO | 1.31 | 74.2 |
| NVDA | 2.6 | 12.3 |
| AAPL | 3.36 | 10.5 |
| SPY | 2.85 | 10 |
| COST | 77.53 | 0.2 |
- 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 | Type | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
symbol |
text | 6 distinct values (AAPL, COST, KO…) | |
avg_spread_cents |
number | 1.3 to 77.53 | |
one_tick_wide_pct |
number | 0.2 to 81.4 | 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 AS symbol,
round(avg(toFloat64(ask_price) - toFloat64(bid_price)) * 100, 2) AS avg_spread_cents,
round(100 * countIf(toFloat64(ask_price) - toFloat64(bid_price) <= 0.0105) / count(), 1) AS one_tick_wide_pct
FROM global_markets.cache_stocks_quotes
WHERE ticker IN ('AAPL', 'KO', 'SPY', 'NVDA', 'COST', 'NFLX')
AND sip_timestamp >= '2026-06-10 13:30:00'
AND sip_timestamp < '2026-06-10 20:00:00'
AND bid_price > 0
AND ask_price > bid_price
AND toFloat64(ask_price) - toFloat64(bid_price) < 5
GROUP BY ticker
ORDER BY one_tick_wide_pct DESC
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