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First 30 minutes: share of the day's range and volume, 2023 to 2025

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 2026-09-26, from The 10:00 AM Rule in Stocks, Tested.

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First 30 minutes: share of the day's range and volume, 2023 to 2025 — 6 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
symbolrange_share_pctvolume_share_pct
KO62.214.2
NVDA60.318.4
AAPL60.217.6
MSFT59.917.7
QQQ46.114.1
SPY38.811.3
Rows × columns
6 × 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 First 30 minutes: share of the day's range and volume, 2023 to 2025, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
symbol text 6 distinct values (AAPL, KO, MSFT…)
range_share_pct number 38.8 to 62.2 percent
volume_share_pct number 11.3 to 18.4 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.

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WITH bars AS (
    SELECT
        ticker,
        toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))            AS trade_day,
        toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60
            + toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))    AS et_minute,
        high,
        low,
        volume
    FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
    WHERE ticker IN ('SPY', 'QQQ', 'AAPL', 'MSFT', 'NVDA', 'KO')
      AND window_start >= '2023-01-01'
      AND window_start <  '2026-01-01'
),
regular AS (
    SELECT *
    FROM bars
    WHERE et_minute >= 570 AND et_minute < 960
),
per_day AS (
    SELECT
        ticker,
        trade_day,
        max(high)                       AS day_high,
        min(low)                        AS day_low,
        sum(volume)                     AS day_volume,
        maxIf(high, et_minute < 600)    AS open_high,
        minIf(low, et_minute < 600)     AS open_low,
        sumIf(volume, et_minute < 600)  AS open_volume,
        countIf(et_minute < 600)        AS open_bars
    FROM regular
    GROUP BY ticker, trade_day
    HAVING open_bars >= 25
       AND day_high > day_low
       AND day_volume > 0
)
SELECT
    ticker AS symbol,
    round(avg(100 * toFloat64(open_high - open_low) / toFloat64(day_high - day_low)), 1) AS range_share_pct,
    round(avg(100 * toFloat64(open_volume) / toFloat64(day_volume)), 1)                  AS volume_share_pct
FROM per_day
GROUP BY ticker
ORDER BY range_share_pct DESC
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