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AAPL top of book by half hour (ET), latest session: NBBO updates and displayed size at the best bid and ask as a share of the peak bucket

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 2026-11-01, from What Is a Liquidity Heatmap? How to Read One.

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AAPL top of book by half hour (ET), latest session: NBBO updates and displayed size at the best bid and ask as a share of the peak bucket — 32 rows by 4 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
et_timequote_update_countdisplayed_bid_pct_of_peakdisplayed_ask_pct_of_peak
04:0097310044
04:3064210044
05:00101710044
05:30241810044
06:00101110044
06:30149710022
07:00209910044
07:30421610044
08:00458610044
08:30207110044
09:00154710044
09:3012546610044
10:00618965044
10:304260110044
11:002807610044
11:30333745044
12:003459410044
12:30436355044
13:005056610044
13:304563810044
14:005261710044
14:304509710044
15:004857410044
15:3011736610044
16:0066010044
16:302535044
17:0017810067
17:302895044
18:001365044
18:30945044
19:00895044
19:30156100100
Rows × columns
32 × 4
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds

Column definitions for AAPL top of book by half hour (ET), latest session: NBBO updates and displayed size at the best bid and ask as a share of the peak bucket, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
et_time text 32 distinct values (04:00, 04:30, 05:00…)
quote_update_count number 89 to 125,466 count
displayed_bid_pct_of_peak number 50 to 100 percent
displayed_ask_pct_of_peak number 22 to 100 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 (
  SELECT max(toDate(sip_timestamp))
  FROM global_markets.cache_stocks_quotes
  WHERE ticker = 'AAPL' AND sip_timestamp >= now() - INTERVAL 7 DAY
) AS last_session
SELECT
  et_time,
  quote_update_count,
  round(100 * median_bid_size / max(median_bid_size) OVER (), 0) AS displayed_bid_pct_of_peak,
  round(100 * median_ask_size / max(median_ask_size) OVER (), 0) AS displayed_ask_pct_of_peak
FROM (
  SELECT
    formatDateTime(toStartOfInterval(toTimeZone(sip_timestamp, 'America/New_York'), INTERVAL 30 MINUTE), '%H:%i') AS et_time,
    count() AS quote_update_count,
    quantileDeterministic(0.5)(toFloat64(bid_size), toUInt64(sip_timestamp)) AS median_bid_size,
    quantileDeterministic(0.5)(toFloat64(ask_size), toUInt64(sip_timestamp)) AS median_ask_size
  FROM global_markets.cache_stocks_quotes
  WHERE ticker = 'AAPL'
    AND sip_timestamp >= now() - INTERVAL 7 DAY
    AND toDate(sip_timestamp) = last_session
    AND bid_price > 0
    AND ask_price > bid_price
    AND bid_size > 0
    AND ask_size > 0
  GROUP BY et_time
)
ORDER BY et_time
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