Absolute move over the final 30 minutes of Friday sessions, 2023 to July 2026
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 2026-08-04, from What Happens If an Option Expires In the Money.
| ticker | fridays_count | median_last30_move_pct | p90_last30_move_pct |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDA | 177 | 0.272 | 0.804 |
| CVX | 177 | 0.174 | 0.559 |
| AAPL | 177 | 0.174 | 0.531 |
| MSFT | 177 | 0.16 | 0.532 |
| T | 177 | 0.155 | 0.46 |
| JNJ | 177 | 0.134 | 0.38 |
| KO | 177 | 0.118 | 0.362 |
| SPY | 177 | 0.071 | 0.261 |
- Rows × columns
- 8 × 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
ticker |
text | 8 distinct values (AAPL, CVX, JNJ…) | |
fridays_count |
number | every row is 177 | count |
median_last30_move_pct |
number | 0.071 to 0.272 | percent |
p90_last30_move_pct |
number | 0.261 to 0.804 | 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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This is the exact query behind the result above. Change a ticker, a date or a column and run it against the warehouse — no account, no key. The no-signup tier is smaller than the one this page was computed on; a query that reaches past it comes back saying which plan runs it.
WITH friday_bars AS (
SELECT ticker,
toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) AS session,
toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60
+ toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) AS et_minute,
window_start,
toFloat64(close) AS px
FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
WHERE ticker IN ('SPY', 'AAPL', 'MSFT', 'NVDA', 'JNJ', 'CVX', 'KO', 'T')
AND toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) >= toDate('2023-01-02')
AND toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) <= toDate('2026-07-31')
AND toDayOfWeek(toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))) = 5
AND (toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60
+ toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))) BETWEEN 570 AND 959
),
friday_sessions AS (
SELECT ticker,
session,
argMaxIf(px, window_start, et_minute <= 930) AS px_330,
argMaxIf(px, window_start, et_minute > 930) AS px_close,
countIf(et_minute <= 930) AS early_bars,
countIf(et_minute > 930) AS late_bars
FROM friday_bars
GROUP BY ticker, session
HAVING early_bars > 100 AND late_bars > 10 AND px_330 > 0
)
SELECT ticker,
count() AS fridays_count,
round(quantileDeterministic(0.5)(abs(px_close / px_330 - 1) * 100,
cityHash64(toString(session))), 3) AS median_last30_move_pct,
round(quantileDeterministic(0.9)(abs(px_close / px_330 - 1) * 100,
cityHash64(toString(session))), 3) AS p90_last30_move_pct
FROM friday_sessions
GROUP BY ticker
ORDER BY median_last30_move_pct DESC