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Quoted spread and displayed size at the NBBO, one June 2026 hour

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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Quoted spread and displayed size at the NBBO, one June 2026 hour — 5 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
symbolquoted_spread_bpstouch_size_lots
SPY0.27180
AAPL1.01100
KO1.25450
MSFT1.53100
PG3.29350
Rows × columns
5 × 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 Quoted spread and displayed size at the NBBO, one June 2026 hour, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
symbol text 5 distinct values (AAPL, KO, MSFT…)
quoted_spread_bps number 0.27 to 3.29
touch_size_lots number 100 to 450

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 quotes AS
(
    SELECT
        ticker,
        toUInt64(sequence_number)           AS weight,
        toFloat64(bid_price)                AS bid,
        toFloat64(ask_price)                AS ask,
        toFloat64(bid_size + ask_size) / 2  AS touch_lots
    FROM global_markets.cache_stocks_quotes
    WHERE ticker IN ('SPY', 'AAPL', 'MSFT', 'PG', 'KO')
      AND sip_timestamp >= '2026-06-16 14:30:00'
      AND sip_timestamp <  '2026-06-16 15:30:00'
      AND bid_price > 0
      AND ask_price > bid_price
)
SELECT
    ticker                                                                                       AS symbol,
    round(quantileDeterministic(0.5)(10000 * (ask - bid) / ((ask + bid) / 2), weight), 2)        AS quoted_spread_bps,
    round(quantileDeterministic(0.5)(touch_lots, weight), 1)                                     AS touch_size_lots
FROM quotes
GROUP BY ticker
ORDER BY quoted_spread_bps

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