US symbols that traded each month over the past year
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 2026-09-26, from What Real-Time Market Data Actually Costs.
| month | month_label | symbols_traded |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-01 | September 2025 | 11886 |
| 2025-10-01 | October 2025 | 11999 |
| 2025-11-01 | November 2025 | 12073 |
| 2025-12-01 | December 2025 | 12221 |
| 2026-01-01 | January 2026 | 12282 |
| 2026-02-01 | February 2026 | 12400 |
| 2026-03-01 | March 2026 | 12494 |
| 2026-04-01 | April 2026 | 12572 |
| 2026-05-01 | May 2026 | 12760 |
| 2026-06-01 | June 2026 | 13022 |
| 2026-07-01 | July 2026 | 13160 |
| 2026-08-01 | August 2026 | 13236 |
- Rows × columns
- 12 × 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
month |
date | 2025-09-01 to 2026-08-01 | |
month_label |
text | 12 distinct values (April 2026, August 2026, December 2025…) | |
symbols_traded |
number | 11,886 to 13,236 |
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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SELECT
toString(toStartOfMonth(date)) AS month,
concat(monthName(date), ' ', toString(toYear(date))) AS month_label,
countDistinct(ticker) AS symbols_traded
FROM global_markets.stocks_daily_aggs
WHERE date >= toStartOfMonth(today() - 365)
AND date < toStartOfMonth(today())
AND volume > 0
GROUP BY month, month_label
ORDER BY month
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