The single busiest clock minute of the month, October 2024
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 When Did the US Stock Market Start? 1792.
| symbol | busiest_clock_et | busiest_minute_pct |
|---|---|---|
| JNJ | 16:00 | 23.2 |
| KO | 16:00 | 21.5 |
| MSFT | 16:00 | 19.12 |
| AAPL | 16:00 | 18.38 |
| SPY | 16:00 | 3.82 |
- Rows × columns
- 5 × 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
symbol |
text | 5 distinct values (AAPL, JNJ, KO…) | |
busiest_clock_et |
text | 1 distinct value (16:00) | |
busiest_minute_pct |
number | 3.82 to 23.2 | percent |
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
symbol,
argMax(clock_et, minute_volume) AS busiest_clock_et,
round(100 * max(minute_volume) / sum(minute_volume), 2) AS busiest_minute_pct
FROM
(
SELECT
symbol,
clock_et,
sum(shares) AS minute_volume
FROM
(
SELECT
ticker AS symbol,
formatDateTime(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'), '%H:%i') AS clock_et,
toFloat64(volume) AS shares
FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
WHERE ticker IN ('SPY', 'AAPL', 'MSFT', 'KO', 'JNJ')
AND window_start >= '2024-10-01'
AND window_start < '2024-11-01'
UNION ALL
SELECT
ticker AS symbol,
formatDateTime(toTimeZone(sip_timestamp, 'America/New_York'), '%H:%i') AS clock_et,
toFloat64(size) AS shares
FROM global_markets.stocks_trades
WHERE ticker IN ('SPY', 'AAPL', 'MSFT', 'KO', 'JNJ')
AND sip_timestamp >= '2024-10-01'
AND sip_timestamp < '2024-11-01'
AND toHour(toTimeZone(sip_timestamp, 'America/New_York')) = 16
AND toMinute(toTimeZone(sip_timestamp, 'America/New_York')) < 10
AND has(conditions, 8)
)
GROUP BY symbol, clock_et
)
GROUP BY symbol
ORDER BY busiest_minute_pct DESC
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