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The smallest size the NBBO will show: six names across the price tiers

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.

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The smallest size the NBBO will show: six names across the price tiers — 6 rows by 4 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
tickershare_pricesmallest_quoted_sizemedian_bid_size
F13.971009200
KO88.5100300
NVDA219.61100200
AAPL309.764080
SPY768.5840240
AZO3090.021020
Rows × columns
6 × 4
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
Licence
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Formats
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What each column holds

Column definitions for The smallest size the NBBO will show: six names across the price tiers, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
ticker text 6 distinct values (AAPL, AZO, F…)
share_price number 13.97 to 3,090.02 US dollars
smallest_quoted_size number 10 to 100
median_bid_size number 20 to 9,200

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 (
    SELECT max(session_date)
    FROM (
        SELECT toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) AS session_date,
               countIf((toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60 + toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))) BETWEEN 570 AND 959) AS regular_bars
        FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
        WHERE ticker = 'SPY'
          AND window_start >= toDateTime(today() - 10)
          AND window_start < toDateTime(today() - 3)
        GROUP BY session_date
        HAVING regular_bars = 390
    )
) AS last_session
SELECT ticker,
       round(quantileDeterministic(0.5)(toFloat64(bid_price), toUInt64(sequence_number)), 2) AS share_price,
       min(bid_size) AS smallest_quoted_size,
       round(quantileDeterministic(0.5)(toFloat64(bid_size), toUInt64(sequence_number)), 0) AS median_bid_size
FROM global_markets.cache_stocks_quotes
WHERE ticker IN ('F', 'KO', 'NVDA', 'AAPL', 'SPY', 'AZO')
  AND sip_timestamp >= toDateTime(last_session, 'America/New_York') + INTERVAL 10 HOUR
  AND sip_timestamp < toDateTime(last_session, 'America/New_York') + INTERVAL 11 HOUR
  AND bid_price > 0
  AND bid_size > 0
GROUP BY ticker
ORDER BY share_price

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