Share of SPY regular hours volume by half hour: expiration Friday vs the Friday after
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.
| et_time | expiry_friday_pct | ordinary_friday_pct |
|---|---|---|
| 09:30 | 8.4 | 11.45 |
| 10:00 | 5.63 | 7.48 |
| 10:30 | 14.31 | 5.06 |
| 11:00 | 4.75 | 7.23 |
| 11:30 | 6.14 | 5.3 |
| 12:00 | 4.97 | 4.69 |
| 12:30 | 3.19 | 5.03 |
| 13:00 | 3.46 | 6.8 |
| 13:30 | 3.64 | 5.23 |
| 14:00 | 7.32 | 6.61 |
| 14:30 | 7.07 | 6.11 |
| 15:00 | 8.56 | 8.81 |
| 15:30 | 20.16 | 18.77 |
| 16:00 | 2.39 | 1.43 |
- Rows × columns
- 14 × 3
- Computed
- Completeness
- No missing values
- Source
- US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
- Licence
- Strasmore terms · free, no signup
What each column holds
| Column | Type | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
et_time |
text | 14 distinct values (09:30, 10:00, 10:30…) | |
expiry_friday_pct |
number | 2.39 to 20.16 | percent |
ordinary_friday_pct |
number | 1.43 to 18.77 | 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
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 = 'SPY'
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])
),
buckets AS
(
SELECT
session,
if(is_closing_print, '16:00',
formatDateTime(toStartOfInterval(et, INTERVAL 30 MINUTE), '%H:%i')) AS et_time,
shares
FROM trades
WHERE is_closing_print
OR (toHour(et) * 60 + toMinute(et)) BETWEEN 570 AND 959
),
day_totals AS
(
SELECT
sumIf(shares, session = '2026-03-20') AS expiry_total,
sumIf(shares, session = '2026-03-27') AS ordinary_total
FROM buckets
)
SELECT
b.et_time AS et_time,
round(100 * sumIf(b.shares, b.session = '2026-03-20') / any(t.expiry_total), 2) AS expiry_friday_pct,
round(100 * sumIf(b.shares, b.session = '2026-03-27') / any(t.ordinary_total), 2) AS ordinary_friday_pct
FROM buckets AS b
CROSS JOIN day_totals AS t
GROUP BY et_time
ORDER BY et_time
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