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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.

as of scalar 1×5read in context →
witching close dollars b
49.6
other june median close dollars b
18.1
times median
2.75
witching close pct of day
29
other june median close pct of day
14.5
Rows × columns
1 × 5
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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Column definitions for Closing auction prints of ten large S&P 500 members: dollar volume on witching day vs. a typical June 2026 session, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
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

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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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