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AAPL option trade sizes, one 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 2026-08-11, from Quote-Driven vs Order-Driven Markets.

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AAPL option trade sizes, one June 2026 session — 5 rows by 4 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
size_buckettrade_countshare_of_trades_pctshare_of_contracts_pct
1 contract9475952.310.8
2 to 107363140.637.1
11 to 100122796.838.6
101 to 5004480.29.9
over 5002503.5
Rows × columns
5 × 4
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 AAPL option trade sizes, one June 2026 session, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
size_bucket text 5 distinct values (1 contract, 101 to 500, 11 to 100…)
trade_count number 25 to 94,759 count
share_of_trades_pct number 0 to 52.3 percent
share_of_contracts_pct number 3.5 to 38.6 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
WITH
session_trades AS
(
    SELECT toUInt32(size) AS contracts
    FROM global_markets.options_trades
    WHERE underlying_symbol = 'AAPL'
      AND sip_timestamp >= '2026-06-16 13:00:00'
      AND sip_timestamp <  '2026-06-16 21:00:00'
      AND size > 0
),
totals AS
(
    SELECT
        count()        AS all_trades,
        sum(contracts) AS all_contracts
    FROM session_trades
)
SELECT
    b.size_bucket                                            AS size_bucket,
    b.trades                                                 AS trade_count,
    round(100 * b.trades / t.all_trades, 1)                  AS share_of_trades_pct,
    round(100 * b.bucket_contracts / t.all_contracts, 1)     AS share_of_contracts_pct
FROM
(
    SELECT
        multiIf(contracts = 1,    '1 contract',
                contracts <= 10,  '2 to 10',
                contracts <= 100, '11 to 100',
                contracts <= 500, '101 to 500',
                                  'over 500') AS size_bucket,
        min(contracts)                        AS bucket_floor,
        count()                               AS trades,
        sum(contracts)                        AS bucket_contracts
    FROM session_trades
    GROUP BY size_bucket
) AS b
CROSS JOIN totals AS t
ORDER BY b.bucket_floor

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