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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.

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Share of SPY regular hours volume by half hour: expiration Friday vs the Friday after — 14 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
et_timeexpiry_friday_pctordinary_friday_pct
09:308.411.45
10:005.637.48
10:3014.315.06
11:004.757.23
11:306.145.3
12:004.974.69
12:303.195.03
13:003.466.8
13:303.645.23
14:007.326.61
14:307.076.11
15:008.568.81
15:3020.1618.77
16:002.391.43
Rows × columns
14 × 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 Share of SPY regular hours volume by half hour: expiration Friday vs the Friday after, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
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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