cross_minutes
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 what-does-cross-mean-in-trading.
| et_time | avg_million_shares | ratio_to_heaviest | sessions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:30 | 1.49 | 1 | 21 |
| 09:31 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 21 |
| 10:00 | 0.17 | 0.11 | 21 |
| 12:00 | 0.08 | 0.05 | 21 |
| 15:00 | 0.08 | 0.06 | 21 |
| 15:59 | 1.31 | 0.88 | 21 |
| 16:00 | 0.99 | 0.66 | 21 |
- Rows × columns
- 7 × 4
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
et_time |
text | 7 distinct values (09:30, 09:31, 10:00…) | |
avg_million_shares |
number | 0.08 to 1.49 | count |
ratio_to_heaviest |
number | 0.05 to 1 | ratio or rate |
sessions |
number | every row is 21 |
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
et_time,
round(toFloat64(avg(volume)) / 1e6, 2) AS avg_million_shares,
round(toFloat64(avg(volume)) / max(toFloat64(avg(volume))) OVER (), 2) AS ratio_to_heaviest,
count() AS sessions
FROM
(
SELECT
formatDateTime(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'), '%H:%i') AS et_time,
volume
FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
WHERE ticker = 'AAPL'
AND window_start >= toDateTime('2026-06-01 04:00:00', 'UTC')
AND window_start < toDateTime('2026-07-01 04:00:00', 'UTC')
)
WHERE et_time IN ('09:30', '09:31', '10:00', '12:00', '15:00', '15:59', '16:00')
GROUP BY et_time
ORDER BY et_time
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