What 100 shares, one contract's deliverable, cost at the end of August 2026
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 2026-09-14, from What Replaced the PDT Rule? Intraday Margin.
| ticker | priced_on | one_contract_deliverable_usd | maintenance_at_25pct_usd |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPY | Aug 31 | 76705 | 19176 |
| MSFT | Aug 31 | 50729 | 12682 |
| AMD | Aug 31 | 47072 | 11768 |
| TSLA | Aug 31 | 36795 | 9199 |
| AAPL | Aug 31 | 31685 | 7921 |
| NVDA | Aug 31 | 22078 | 5520 |
- Rows × columns
- 6 × 4
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
ticker |
text | 6 distinct values (AAPL, AMD, MSFT…) | |
priced_on |
text | 1 distinct value (Aug 31) | |
one_contract_deliverable_usd |
number | 22,078 to 76,705 | US dollars |
maintenance_at_25pct_usd |
number | 5,520 to 19,176 | US dollars |
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
SELECT
ticker,
formatDateTime(max(date), '%b %e') AS priced_on,
toInt64(round(toFloat64(argMax(close, date)) * 100, 0)) AS one_contract_deliverable_usd,
toInt64(round(toFloat64(argMax(close, date)) * 25, 0)) AS maintenance_at_25pct_usd
FROM global_markets.stocks_daily_aggs
WHERE ticker IN ('AAPL', 'MSFT', 'NVDA', 'TSLA', 'AMD', 'SPY')
AND date >= '2026-08-24'
AND date < '2026-09-01'
GROUP BY ticker
ORDER BY one_contract_deliverable_usd DESC
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