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Dollar volume by half hour, closing auction prints in the final bucket: witching Thursday (Jun 18, 2026) vs. the ordinary Friday before it (Jun 12)

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 2026-09-28, from Triple Witching 2026 Dates and Volume Data.

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Dollar volume by half hour, closing auction prints in the final bucket: witching Thursday (Jun 18, 2026) vs. the ordinary Friday before it (Jun 12) — 13 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
et_timewitching_dollars_bnormal_dollars_b
09:30212.7132.4
10:00100.285.9
10:3077.783.8
11:0067.964.4
11:3077.693.9
12:0057.674.1
12:3051.152.3
13:0049.153.1
13:3045.841.3
14:0050.345.9
14:3048.944.5
15:0063.953.7
15:30724.3222.2
Rows × columns
13 × 3
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds

Column definitions for Dollar volume by half hour, closing auction prints in the final bucket: witching Thursday (Jun 18, 2026) vs. the ordinary Friday before it (Jun 12), derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
et_time text 13 distinct values (09:30, 10:00, 10:30…)
witching_dollars_b number 45.8 to 724.3
normal_dollars_b number 41.3 to 222.2

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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SELECT et_time,
       round(sumIf(dollars, session = '2026-06-18') / 1e9, 1) AS witching_dollars_b,
       round(sumIf(dollars, session = '2026-06-12') / 1e9, 1) AS normal_dollars_b
FROM
(
    SELECT formatDateTime(toStartOfInterval(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'), INTERVAL 30 minute), '%H:%i') AS et_time,
           toString(toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))) AS session,
           toFloat64(close) * toFloat64(volume) AS dollars
    FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
    WHERE ((window_start >= '2026-06-12 04:00:00' AND window_start < '2026-06-13 04:00:00')
           OR (window_start >= '2026-06-18 04:00:00' AND window_start < '2026-06-19 04:00:00'))
      AND (toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60
           + toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))) BETWEEN 570 AND 959
    UNION ALL
    SELECT '15:30' AS et_time,
           toString(toDate(toTimeZone(sip_timestamp, 'America/New_York'))) AS session,
           toFloat64(price) * toFloat64(size) AS dollars
    FROM global_markets.stocks_trades
    WHERE ((sip_timestamp >= '2026-06-12 20:00:00' AND sip_timestamp < '2026-06-12 20:15:00')
           OR (sip_timestamp >= '2026-06-18 20:00:00' AND sip_timestamp < '2026-06-18 20:15:00'))
      AND has(conditions, 8)
)
GROUP BY et_time
ORDER BY et_time
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