Full-day RVOL percentiles across high-volume US stocks and ETFs (20-day ADV above 5M shares), latest completed session
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 2026-08-22, from What Is RVOL (Relative Volume)? How to Read It.
| percentile | rvol |
|---|---|
| p10 | 0.08 |
| p25 | 0.57 |
| p50 (median) | 0.86 |
| p75 | 1.2 |
| p90 | 1.69 |
| p99 | 3.43 |
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- US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds
| Column | Type | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
percentile |
text | 6 distinct values (p10, p25, p50 (median)…) | |
rvol |
number | 0.08 to 3.43 |
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
WITH daily AS (
SELECT ticker,
toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) AS et_date,
toFloat64(sum(volume)) AS day_volume
FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
WHERE window_start >= now() - INTERVAL 40 DAY
AND toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) < toDate(toTimeZone(now(), 'America/New_York'))
GROUP BY ticker, et_date
),
spy_days AS (
SELECT et_date,
day_volume,
avg(day_volume) OVER (ORDER BY et_date ROWS BETWEEN 20 PRECEDING AND 1 PRECEDING) AS prior_avg
FROM daily
WHERE ticker = 'SPY' AND day_volume > 10000000
),
sessions AS (
SELECT et_date FROM spy_days
),
latest AS (
SELECT max(et_date) AS d FROM spy_days WHERE prior_avg > 0 AND day_volume >= 0.6 * prior_avg
),
prior20 AS (
SELECT et_date FROM sessions WHERE et_date < (SELECT d FROM latest) ORDER BY et_date DESC LIMIT 20
),
rvols AS (
SELECT ticker, day_vol / adv20 AS rvol
FROM (
SELECT ticker,
sumIf(day_volume, et_date = (SELECT d FROM latest)) AS day_vol,
sumIf(day_volume, et_date IN (SELECT et_date FROM prior20)) / 20 AS adv20,
countIf(day_volume > 0 AND et_date IN (SELECT et_date FROM prior20)) AS sessions_traded
FROM daily
WHERE ticker NOT IN ('SPCX')
GROUP BY ticker
HAVING adv20 > 5000000 AND day_vol > 0 AND sessions_traded = 20
)
)
SELECT pair.1 AS percentile,
round(pair.2, 2) AS rvol
FROM (
SELECT arrayJoin(arrayZip(['p10', 'p25', 'p50 (median)', 'p75', 'p90', 'p99'], quantilesExact(0.1, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 0.9, 0.99)(rvol))) AS pair
FROM rvols
)
ORDER BY percentile
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