The tape's own labels for the open, straight from the code dictionary

Name: The tape's own labels for the open, straight from the code dictionary
Creator: Strasmore
Published: 2026-07-26
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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 2026-07-26, from What Is the Opening Auction? How Stocks Open.

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The tape's own labels for the open, straight from the code dictionary — 5 rows by 3 columns, computed 2026-07-26 from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
name	id	counts_toward_volume
Closing Prints	8	1
Market Center Official Close	15	0
Market Center Official Open	16	0
Market Center Opening Trade	17	1
Corrected Consolidated Close (per listing market)	38	0

Rows × columns: 5 × 3
Computed: 2026-07-26
Completeness: No missing values
Source: US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
Licence: Strasmore terms · free, no signup
Formats: JSON · CSV · the SQL below

What each column holds

Column definitions for The tape's own labels for the open, straight from the code dictionary, derived from the stored result.
Column	Type	Range	Notes
`name`	text	5 distinct values
`id`	number	8 to 38
`counts_toward_volume`	number	0 to 1	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 2026-07-26, and the query below is what returned them.

the exact SQL behind every number

SELECT
    name,
    id,
    toUInt8(JSONExtractBool(update_rules, 'consolidated', 'updates_volume')) AS counts_toward_volume
FROM global_markets.stocks_condition_codes
WHERE asset_class = 'stocks' AND type = 'sale_condition' AND id IN (8, 15, 16, 17, 38)
ORDER BY id

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