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.
| symbol | range_share_pct | volume_share_pct |
|---|---|---|
| KO | 62.2 | 14.2 |
| NVDA | 60.3 | 18.4 |
| AAPL | 60.2 | 17.6 |
| MSFT | 59.9 | 17.7 |
| QQQ | 46.1 | 14.1 |
| SPY | 38.8 | 11.3 |
- Rows × columns
- 6 × 3
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
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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