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Percent of regular hours volume in the closing auction print, six large listings

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 2026-10-04, from Quadruple Witching vs Triple Witching.

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Percent of regular hours volume in the closing auction print, six large listings — 6 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
symbolexpiry_close_pctordinary_close_pct
KO55.0524.55
JNJ44.1719
AAPL41.9417.77
XOM39.399.97
MSFT25.8813.32
NVDA15.378.83
Rows × columns
6 × 3
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
Licence
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Formats
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What each column holds

Column definitions for Percent of regular hours volume in the closing auction print, six large listings, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
symbol text 6 distinct values (AAPL, JNJ, KO…)
expiry_close_pct number 15.37 to 55.05 percent
ordinary_close_pct number 8.83 to 24.55 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.

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WITH trades AS
(
    SELECT
        ticker,
        toDate(toTimeZone(sip_timestamp, 'America/New_York')) AS session,
        toTimeZone(sip_timestamp, 'America/New_York')         AS et,
        toFloat64(size)                                       AS shares,
        has(conditions, 8)                                    AS is_closing_print
    FROM global_markets.stocks_trades
    WHERE ticker IN ('AAPL', 'MSFT', 'NVDA', 'KO', 'JNJ', 'XOM')
      AND ((sip_timestamp >= '2026-03-20 00:00:00' AND sip_timestamp < '2026-03-21 00:00:00')
        OR (sip_timestamp >= '2026-03-27 00:00:00' AND sip_timestamp < '2026-03-28 00:00:00'))
      AND NOT hasAny(conditions, [15, 16, 38])
),
regular AS
(
    SELECT ticker, session, shares, is_closing_print
    FROM trades
    WHERE is_closing_print
       OR (toHour(et) * 60 + toMinute(et)) BETWEEN 570 AND 959
)
SELECT
    ticker AS symbol,
    round(100 * sumIf(shares, session = '2026-03-20' AND is_closing_print)
              / sumIf(shares, session = '2026-03-20'), 2) AS expiry_close_pct,
    round(100 * sumIf(shares, session = '2026-03-27' AND is_closing_print)
              / sumIf(shares, session = '2026-03-27'), 2) AS ordinary_close_pct
FROM regular
GROUP BY symbol
HAVING sumIf(shares, session = '2026-03-20') > 0
   AND sumIf(shares, session = '2026-03-27') > 0
ORDER BY expiry_close_pct DESC
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