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aapl_contracts_by_volume

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 2026-09-11, from stop-orders-on-options.

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aapl_contracts_by_volume — 5 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
volume_bucketcontractsshare_pct
1 to 5 lots41423.4
6 to 25 lots32318.2
26 to 100 lots35820.2
101 to 1,000 lots48627.4
over 1,000 lots19010.7
Rows × columns
5 × 3
Computed
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 aapl_contracts_by_volume, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
volume_bucket text 5 distinct values
contracts number 190 to 486 count
share_pct number 10.7 to 27.4 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.

the exact SQL behind every number
WITH traded AS
(
    SELECT
        ticker,
        max(volume) AS contracts_traded
    FROM global_markets.options_greeks
    WHERE underlying_symbol = 'AAPL'
      AND date = toDate('2026-07-15')
      AND volume > 0
    GROUP BY ticker
)
SELECT
    multiIf(contracts_traded <= 5,    '1 to 5 lots',
            contracts_traded <= 25,   '6 to 25 lots',
            contracts_traded <= 100,  '26 to 100 lots',
            contracts_traded <= 1000, '101 to 1,000 lots',
                                      'over 1,000 lots') AS volume_bucket,
    count()                                                AS contracts,
    round(100 * count() / (SELECT count() FROM traded), 1) AS share_pct
FROM traded
GROUP BY volume_bucket
ORDER BY min(contracts_traded)

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