Quote update traffic across five household tickers, 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. ET on June 16, 2026

Name: Quote update traffic across five household tickers, 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. ET on June 16, 2026
Creator: Strasmore
Published: 2026-08-09
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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 2026-08-09, from SIP Feeds vs Direct Exchange Feeds.

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Quote update traffic across five household tickers, 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. ET on June 16, 2026 — 5 rows by 5 columns, computed 2026-08-09 from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
ticker	quote_update_count	quote_updates_readable	updates_per_second	bid_venues
SPY	1031411	1.03 million	286.5	16
NVDA	658342	658.34 thousand	182.9	16
AAPL	213956	213.96 thousand	59.4	15
KO	122775	122.78 thousand	34.1	15
MSFT	82098	82.10 thousand	22.8	16

Rows × columns: 5 × 5
Computed: 2026-08-09
Completeness: No missing values
Source: US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
Licence: Strasmore terms · free, no signup
Formats: JSON · CSV · the SQL below

What each column holds

Column definitions for Quote update traffic across five household tickers, 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. ET on June 16, 2026, derived from the stored result.
Column	Type	Range	Notes
`ticker`	text	5 distinct values (AAPL, KO, MSFT…)
`quote_update_count`	number	82,098 to 1,031,411	count
`quote_updates_readable`	text	5 distinct values
`updates_per_second`	number	22.8 to 286.5
`bid_venues`	number	15 to 16

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 2026-08-09, and the query below is what returned them.

the exact SQL behind every number

SELECT
    ticker,
    count()                         AS quote_update_count,
    formatReadableQuantity(count()) AS quote_updates_readable,
    round(count() / 3600, 1)        AS updates_per_second,
    uniqExact(bid_exchange)         AS bid_venues
FROM global_markets.cache_stocks_quotes
WHERE ticker IN ('AAPL', 'KO', 'MSFT', 'NVDA', 'SPY')
  AND sip_timestamp >= '2026-06-16 14:00:00'
  AND sip_timestamp <  '2026-06-16 15:00:00'
GROUP BY ticker
ORDER BY quote_update_count DESC

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