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quote_states

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.

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quote_states — 3 rows by 4 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
quote_statequotesshare_pctall_quotes_thousands
normal (bid below ask)3841099.59538.6
locked (bid equals ask)1020.26438.6
crossed (bid above ask)540.1438.6
Rows × columns
3 × 4
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
Licence
Strasmore terms · free, no signup
Formats
JSON · CSV · the SQL below

What each column holds

Column definitions for quote_states, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
quote_state text 3 distinct values
quotes number 54 to 38,410
share_pct number 0.14 to 99.595 percent
all_quotes_thousands number every row is 38.6

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
    multiIf(bid_price > ask_price, 'crossed (bid above ask)',
            bid_price = ask_price, 'locked (bid equals ask)',
            'normal (bid below ask)')                       AS quote_state,
    count()                                                 AS quotes,
    round(100 * count() / sum(count()) OVER (), 3)          AS share_pct,
    round(sum(count()) OVER () / 1000, 1)                   AS all_quotes_thousands
FROM global_markets.cache_stocks_quotes
WHERE ticker = 'AAPL'
  AND sip_timestamp >= toDateTime('2026-06-18 13:30:00', 'UTC')
  AND sip_timestamp <  toDateTime('2026-06-18 13:35:00', 'UTC')
  AND bid_price > 0
  AND ask_price > 0
GROUP BY quote_state
ORDER BY quotes DESC

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