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Distinct symbols printing at least one session, by year

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 2026-08-11, from The January Effect: Does It Still Work?.

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Distinct symbols printing at least one session, by year — 20 rows by 2 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
yearlistings_on_tape
20069450
20079798
20089356
20098888
20108870
20118728
20128826
20138795
20148977
20159170
20169316
20179458
20189646
20199900
202010578
202113155
202213332
202313048
202412647
202513423
Rows × columns
20 × 2
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 Distinct symbols printing at least one session, by year, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
year text 20 distinct values (2006, 2007, 2008…)
listings_on_tape number 8,728 to 13,423

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
    toString(toYear(date)) AS year,
    uniqExact(ticker)      AS listings_on_tape
FROM global_markets.stocks_daily_aggs
WHERE date >= '2006-01-01'
  AND date <  '2026-01-01'
GROUP BY year
ORDER BY year

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