Closing auction prints of ten large S&P 500 members: dollar volume on witching day vs. a typical June 2026 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 2026-09-28, from What Is Triple Witching? Volume & Volatility.
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- 1 × 5
- Computed
- Completeness
- No missing values
- Source
- US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds
| Column | Type | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
witching_close_dollars_b |
number | every row is 49.6 | US dollars |
other_june_median_close_dollars_b |
number | every row is 18.1 | US dollars |
times_median |
number | every row is 2.75 | |
witching_close_pct_of_day |
number | every row is 29 | percent |
other_june_median_close_pct_of_day |
number | every row is 14.5 | 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 sessions AS (
SELECT b.day AS day,
p.print_dollars AS close_dollars,
b.continuous_dollars + p.print_dollars AS day_dollars
FROM
(
SELECT toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) AS day,
sum(toFloat64(close) * toFloat64(volume)) AS continuous_dollars
FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
WHERE ticker IN ('AAPL', 'MSFT', 'NVDA', 'AMZN', 'GOOGL', 'META', 'AVGO', 'TSLA', 'JPM', 'LLY')
AND window_start >= '2026-06-01 04:00:00'
AND window_start < '2026-07-01 04:00:00'
AND toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60
+ toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) BETWEEN 570 AND 959
GROUP BY day
) AS b
INNER JOIN
(
SELECT day, sum(print_dollars) AS print_dollars
FROM
(
SELECT ticker,
toDate(toTimeZone(sip_timestamp, 'America/New_York')) AS day,
toFloat64(argMaxIf(price, size, has(conditions, 8)))
* toFloat64(maxIf(size, has(conditions, 8))) AS print_dollars
FROM global_markets.stocks_trades
WHERE ticker IN ('AAPL', 'MSFT', 'NVDA', 'AMZN', 'GOOGL', 'META', 'AVGO', 'TSLA', 'JPM', 'LLY')
AND sip_timestamp >= '2026-06-01 04:00:00'
AND sip_timestamp < '2026-07-01 04:00:00'
AND toHour(toTimeZone(sip_timestamp, 'America/New_York')) = 16
AND toMinute(toTimeZone(sip_timestamp, 'America/New_York')) < 10
GROUP BY ticker, day
HAVING countIf(has(conditions, 8)) > 0
)
GROUP BY day
) AS p ON p.day = b.day
)
SELECT round(anyIf(close_dollars, day = '2026-06-18') / 1e9, 1) AS witching_close_dollars_b,
round(quantileDeterministicIf(0.5)(close_dollars, cityHash64(toString(day)), day != '2026-06-18') / 1e9, 1) AS other_june_median_close_dollars_b,
round(anyIf(close_dollars, day = '2026-06-18')
/ quantileDeterministicIf(0.5)(close_dollars, cityHash64(toString(day)), day != '2026-06-18'), 2) AS times_median,
round(anyIf(close_dollars / day_dollars, day = '2026-06-18') * 100, 1) AS witching_close_pct_of_day,
round(quantileDeterministicIf(0.5)(close_dollars / day_dollars, cityHash64(toString(day)), day != '2026-06-18') * 100, 1) AS other_june_median_close_pct_of_day
FROM sessions
HAVING countIf(day != '2026-06-18') > 0
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