Day one by half hour: quote updates and the median spread finding its level
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 2026-07-27, from SPCX: SpaceX's First Month on the Public Market.
| et_bucket | quote_updates | med_spread_cents | med_spread_bps |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:30 | 18 | 0 | 0 |
| 10:00 | 32 | 0 | 0 |
| 10:30 | 185 | 0 | 0 |
| 11:00 | 12 | 0 | 0 |
| 11:30 | 445211 | 30 | 18.6 |
| 12:00 | 413345 | 10 | 6.03 |
| 12:30 | 275267 | 6 | 3.6 |
| 13:00 | 234375 | 6 | 3.5 |
| 13:30 | 142631 | 7 | 4.07 |
| 14:00 | 193071 | 8 | 4.64 |
| 14:30 | 92601 | 8 | 4.71 |
| 15:00 | 163021 | 8 | 4.94 |
| 15:30 | 237988 | 7 | 4.34 |
- Rows × columns
- 13 × 4
- Computed
- Completeness
- No missing values
- Source
- US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
- Licence
- Strasmore terms · free, no signup
What each column holds
| Column | Type | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
et_bucket |
text | 13 distinct values (09:30, 10:00, 10:30…) | |
quote_updates |
number | 12 to 445,211 | |
med_spread_cents |
number | 0 to 30 | |
med_spread_bps |
number | 0 to 18.6 |
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.
Run it yourself
This is the exact query behind the result above. Change a ticker, a date or a column and run it against the warehouse — no account, no key. The no-signup tier is smaller than the one this page was computed on; a query that reaches past it comes back saying which plan runs it.
SELECT
formatDateTime(toStartOfInterval(toTimeZone(sip_timestamp, 'America/New_York'), INTERVAL 30 MINUTE), '%H:%i') AS et_bucket,
count() AS quote_updates,
round(quantileDeterministicIf(0.5)(toFloat64(ask_price) - toFloat64(bid_price), toUInt64(toUnixTimestamp64Micro(sip_timestamp)), bid_price > 0 AND ask_price >= bid_price) * 100, 1) AS med_spread_cents,
round(quantileDeterministicIf(0.5)((toFloat64(ask_price) - toFloat64(bid_price)) / ((toFloat64(ask_price) + toFloat64(bid_price)) / 2) * 10000, toUInt64(toUnixTimestamp64Micro(sip_timestamp)), bid_price > 0 AND ask_price >= bid_price), 2) AS med_spread_bps
FROM global_markets.cache_stocks_quotes
WHERE ticker = 'SPCX'
AND sip_timestamp >= toDateTime64('2026-06-12 13:30:00', 9) AND sip_timestamp < toDateTime64('2026-06-12 20:00:00', 9)
GROUP BY et_bucket
ORDER BY et_bucket
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