SPY volume by half hour on the early-close session, premarket through the shortened after-hours (ET clock)
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 2026-10-04, from Stock Market Hours: Open 9:30, Close 4:00 ET.
| et_half_hour | shares_m |
|---|---|
| 04:00 | 0.03 |
| 04:30 | 0 |
| 05:00 | 0.01 |
| 05:30 | 0.01 |
| 06:00 | 0.01 |
| 06:30 | 0.01 |
| 07:00 | 0.05 |
| 07:30 | 0.03 |
| 08:00 | 0.1 |
| 08:30 | 0.11 |
| 09:00 | 0.13 |
| 09:30 | 4.36 |
| 10:00 | 3.84 |
| 10:30 | 3.46 |
| 11:00 | 4.98 |
| 11:30 | 3.79 |
| 12:00 | 5.69 |
| 12:30 | 9.66 |
| 13:00 | 3.11 |
| 13:30 | 0.11 |
| 14:00 | 0.1 |
| 14:30 | 0.27 |
| 15:00 | 0.01 |
| 15:30 | 0.03 |
| 16:00 | 0.02 |
| 16:30 | 0.02 |
- Rows × columns
- 26 × 2
- 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_half_hour |
text | 26 distinct values (04:00, 04:30, 05:00…) | |
shares_m |
number | 0 to 9.66 | count |
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.
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WITH
(
SELECT max(d)
FROM
(
SELECT
toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) AS d,
countIf((toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60
+ toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))) >= 570
AND (toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60
+ toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))) < 960) AS rth_bars
FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
WHERE ticker = 'SPY'
AND window_start >= today() - 400
AND window_start < today() - 2
GROUP BY d
HAVING rth_bars >= 150 AND rth_bars <= 240
)
) AS half_day
SELECT
formatDateTime(toStartOfInterval(if(has(conditions, 8),
toTimeZone(sip_timestamp, 'America/New_York') - INTERVAL 10 MINUTE,
toTimeZone(sip_timestamp, 'America/New_York')),
INTERVAL 30 MINUTE), '%H:%i') AS et_half_hour,
round(sum(toFloat64(size)) / 1e6, 2) AS shares_m
FROM global_markets.stocks_trades
WHERE ticker = 'SPY'
AND sip_timestamp >= toDateTime(half_day, 'America/New_York')
AND sip_timestamp < toDateTime(half_day + 1, 'America/New_York')
AND NOT hasAny(conditions, [15, 16, 38])
GROUP BY et_half_hour
ORDER BY et_half_hour
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