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quote_burst

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 2026-09-30, from what-exchange-colocation-costs.

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quote_burst — 5 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
updates_in_one_millisecondmillisecond_countpct_of_active_ms
1 update2847941.3
2 updates1475921.4
3 updates888012.9
4 updates56058.1
5 or more updates1129316.4
Rows × columns
5 × 3
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_burst, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
updates_in_one_millisecond text 5 distinct values (1 update, 2 updates, 3 updates…)
millisecond_count number 5,605 to 28,479 count
pct_of_active_ms number 8.1 to 41.3 percent

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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WITH active_ms AS
(
    SELECT
        toUnixTimestamp64Milli(sip_timestamp) AS ms,
        count()                               AS updates
    FROM global_markets.cache_stocks_quotes
    WHERE ticker = 'SPY'
      AND sip_timestamp >= '2026-06-10 14:00:00'
      AND sip_timestamp <  '2026-06-10 14:05:00'
    GROUP BY ms
)
SELECT
    multiIf(updates = 1, '1 update',
            updates = 2, '2 updates',
            updates = 3, '3 updates',
            updates = 4, '4 updates',
                         '5 or more updates')              AS updates_in_one_millisecond,
    count()                                                AS millisecond_count,
    round(100 * count() / (SELECT count() FROM active_ms), 1) AS pct_of_active_ms
FROM active_ms
GROUP BY updates_in_one_millisecond
ORDER BY updates_in_one_millisecond
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