Quote updates per second and average quoted spread, ten minutes on 17 June 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 2026-08-08, from Price-Time Priority vs Pro-Rata Fills.

Rows × columns

5 × 3

Computed

2026-08-08

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

SELECT
    ticker                    AS symbol,
    round(count() / 600.0, 1) AS quote_updates_per_second,
    round(avg(toFloat64(ask_price) - toFloat64(bid_price))
          / avg(toFloat64(bid_price)) * 10000, 2) AS avg_spread_bps
FROM global_markets.cache_stocks_quotes
WHERE ticker IN ('AAPL', 'MSFT', 'NVDA', 'SPY', 'KO')
  AND sip_timestamp >= '2026-06-17 14:00:00'
  AND sip_timestamp <  '2026-06-17 14:10:00'
  AND bid_price > 0
  AND ask_price > bid_price
GROUP BY ticker
ORDER BY quote_updates_per_second DESC