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Sessions that gapped through a 2% stop, and whether the limit price traded

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 2026-08-08, from Stop Order vs Stop-Limit Order: How Each Fills.

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Sessions that gapped through a 2% stop, and whether the limit price traded — 5 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
symbolgapped_through_sessionsreached_limit_intraday_pct
KO2100
SPY4100
AAPL1485.7
NVDA4571.1
MSFT1266.7
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 Sessions that gapped through a 2% stop, and whether the limit price traded, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
symbol text 5 distinct values (AAPL, KO, MSFT…)
gapped_through_sessions number 2 to 45
reached_limit_intraday_pct number 66.7 to 100 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.

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WITH sessions AS
(
    SELECT
        ticker,
        date,
        toFloat64(open)  AS open_px,
        toFloat64(high)  AS high_px,
        toFloat64(close) AS close_px,
        row_number() OVER (PARTITION BY ticker ORDER BY date)     AS session_n,
        row_number() OVER (PARTITION BY ticker ORDER BY date) + 1 AS next_session_n
    FROM global_markets.stocks_daily_aggs
    WHERE ticker IN ('AAPL', 'MSFT', 'NVDA', 'SPY', 'KO')
      AND date >= '2021-08-01'
      AND date <  '2026-08-01'
)
SELECT
    cur.ticker                                                                AS symbol,
    count()                                                                   AS gapped_through_sessions,
    round(100 * countIf(cur.high_px >= prior.close_px * 0.9702) / count(), 1) AS reached_limit_intraday_pct
FROM sessions AS cur
INNER JOIN sessions AS prior
    ON cur.ticker = prior.ticker
   AND cur.session_n = prior.next_session_n
WHERE cur.open_px < prior.close_px * 0.9702
  AND (cur.ticker, cur.date) NOT IN
  (
      SELECT ticker, execution_date
      FROM global_markets.stocks_splits
  )
GROUP BY symbol
ORDER BY reached_limit_intraday_pct DESC
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