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 2026-08-08, from When Did the US Stock Market Start? 1792.

Rows × columns

5 × 3

Computed

2026-08-08

Completeness

No missing values

Source

US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data

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What each column holds

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 2026-08-08, and the query below is what returned them.

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
        ticker                                                                 AS symbol,
        formatDateTime(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'), '%H:%i')  AS clock_et,
        toFloat64(sum(volume))                                                 AS minute_volume
    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'
    GROUP BY symbol, clock_et
)
GROUP BY symbol
ORDER BY busiest_minute_pct DESC