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Share of late session option volume printed after 4:00 p.m. ET, July 15, 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 2026-08-16, from What Time Do Options Stop Trading?.

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Share of late session option volume printed after 4:00 p.m. ET, July 15, 2026 — 7 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
underlyingpct_after_4pmlast_print_et
IWM61.6216:14
SPY42.7216:14
QQQ34.916:15
SPX25.0616:29
AAPL0.0416:00
MSFT0.0316:00
NVDA016:00
Rows × columns
7 × 3
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds

Column definitions for Share of late session option volume printed after 4:00 p.m. ET, July 15, 2026, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
underlying text 7 distinct values (AAPL, IWM, MSFT…)
pct_after_4pm number 0 to 61.62 percent
last_print_et text 4 distinct values (16:00, 16:14, 16:15…)

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
    underlying,
    round(100 * late_contracts / window_contracts, 2) AS pct_after_4pm,
    concat(toString(intDiv(last_minute, 60)), ':',
           leftPad(toString(modulo(last_minute, 60)), 2, '0')) AS last_print_et
FROM
(
    WITH
        extract(ticker, '^O:([A-Z]+)')                AS root,
        toTimeZone(sip_timestamp, 'America/New_York') AS et
    SELECT
        if(root = 'SPXW', 'SPX', root)                       AS underlying,
        sum(size)                                            AS window_contracts,
        sumIf(size, (toHour(et) * 60 + toMinute(et)) >= 960) AS late_contracts,
        max(toHour(et) * 60 + toMinute(et))                  AS last_minute
    FROM global_markets.options_trades
    WHERE (ticker LIKE 'O:AAPL%' OR ticker LIKE 'O:MSFT%' OR ticker LIKE 'O:NVDA%'
           OR ticker LIKE 'O:SPY%' OR ticker LIKE 'O:QQQ%' OR ticker LIKE 'O:IWM%'
           OR ticker LIKE 'O:SPX%')
      AND root IN ('AAPL', 'MSFT', 'NVDA', 'SPY', 'QQQ', 'IWM', 'SPX', 'SPXW')
      AND sip_timestamp >= '2026-07-15 19:45:00'
      AND sip_timestamp <  '2026-07-15 20:30:00'
      AND (toHour(et) * 60 + toMinute(et)) BETWEEN 945 AND 990
    GROUP BY underlying
)
ORDER BY pct_after_4pm DESC

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