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one_lot_share

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 2026-09-17, from the-390-rule-in-options-trading.

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one_lot_share — 6 rows by 4 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
symbolone_lot_pctfive_or_fewer_pcttrade_count
TSLA60.587.2388449
AAPL56.685.1600018
AMZN55.684.480198
NVDA5380.9289053
SPY47.878.41343178
QQQ46.677.71015691
Rows × columns
6 × 4
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
Licence
Strasmore terms · free, no signup
Formats
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What each column holds

Column definitions for one_lot_share, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
symbol text 6 distinct values (AAPL, AMZN, NVDA…)
one_lot_pct number 46.6 to 60.5 percent
five_or_fewer_pct number 77.7 to 87.2 percent
trade_count number 80,198 to 1,343,178 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.

the exact SQL behind every number
SELECT
    underlying_symbol                                AS symbol,
    round(100 * countIf(size = 1) / count(), 1)      AS one_lot_pct,
    round(100 * countIf(size <= 5) / count(), 1)     AS five_or_fewer_pct,
    count()                                          AS trade_count
FROM global_markets.options_trades
WHERE underlying_symbol IN ('SPY', 'QQQ', 'AAPL', 'NVDA', 'TSLA', 'AMZN')
  AND sip_timestamp >= toDateTime('2026-09-10 13:30:00', 'UTC')
  AND sip_timestamp <  toDateTime('2026-09-10 20:30:00', 'UTC')
GROUP BY symbol
ORDER BY one_lot_pct DESC

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