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?.
| underlying | pct_after_4pm | last_print_et |
|---|---|---|
| IWM | 61.62 | 16:14 |
| SPY | 42.72 | 16:14 |
| QQQ | 34.9 | 16:15 |
| SPX | 25.06 | 16:29 |
| AAPL | 0.04 | 16:00 |
| MSFT | 0.03 | 16:00 |
| NVDA | 0 | 16:00 |
- Rows × columns
- 7 × 3
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
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.
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This is the exact query behind the result above. Change a ticker, a date or a column and run it against the warehouse — no account, no key. The no-signup tier is smaller than the one this page was computed on; a query that reaches past it comes back saying which plan runs it.
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