GME, 2024-05-14: NBBO updates and trades per minute across a five-minute LULD pause
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 the NBBO? National Best Bid and Offer.
| et_time | nbbo_updates | trades |
|---|---|---|
| 10:57 | 1812 | 5690 |
| 10:58 | 1275 | 4420 |
| 10:59 | 1491 | 4068 |
| 11:00 | 4511 | 12419 |
| 11:01 | 346 | 1331 |
| 11:02 | 0 | 0 |
| 11:03 | 0 | 0 |
| 11:04 | 1 | 0 |
| 11:05 | 0 | 0 |
| 11:06 | 4155 | 14007 |
| 11:07 | 4627 | 13199 |
| 11:08 | 2941 | 8985 |
| 11:09 | 1613 | 6487 |
| 11:10 | 1741 | 6222 |
| 11:11 | 1447 | 5691 |
- Rows × columns
- 15 × 3
- Period covered
- to
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
et_time |
date | 10:57 to 11:11 | |
nbbo_updates |
number | 0 to 4,627 | |
trades |
number | 0 to 14,007 | count |
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 spine AS (
SELECT toStartOfMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) AS et_min
FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
WHERE ticker = 'SPY'
AND window_start >= toDateTime('2024-05-14 10:57:00', 'America/New_York')
AND window_start < toDateTime('2024-05-14 11:12:00', 'America/New_York')
),
gme_trades AS (
SELECT toStartOfMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) AS et_min,
sum(transactions) AS trades
FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
WHERE ticker = 'GME'
AND window_start >= toDateTime('2024-05-14 10:57:00', 'America/New_York')
AND window_start < toDateTime('2024-05-14 11:12:00', 'America/New_York')
GROUP BY et_min
),
gme_quotes AS (
SELECT toStartOfMinute(toTimeZone(sip_timestamp, 'America/New_York')) AS et_min,
count() AS nbbo_updates
FROM global_markets.cache_stocks_quotes
WHERE ticker = 'GME'
AND sip_timestamp >= toDateTime('2024-05-14 10:57:00', 'America/New_York')
AND sip_timestamp < toDateTime('2024-05-14 11:12:00', 'America/New_York')
GROUP BY et_min
)
SELECT formatDateTime(spine.et_min, '%H:%i') AS et_time,
ifNull(gme_quotes.nbbo_updates, 0) AS nbbo_updates,
toUInt64(ifNull(gme_trades.trades, 0)) AS trades
FROM spine
LEFT JOIN gme_quotes ON gme_quotes.et_min = spine.et_min
LEFT JOIN gme_trades ON gme_trades.et_min = spine.et_min
ORDER BY spine.et_min
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