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.
| size_bucket | trade_count | share_of_trades_pct | share_of_contracts_pct |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 contract | 94759 | 52.3 | 10.8 |
| 2 to 10 | 73631 | 40.6 | 37.1 |
| 11 to 100 | 12279 | 6.8 | 38.6 |
| 101 to 500 | 448 | 0.2 | 9.9 |
| over 500 | 25 | 0 | 3.5 |
- Rows × columns
- 5 × 4
- Computed
- Completeness
- No missing values
- Source
- US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds
| Column | Type | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
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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