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Units versus dollars: seven funds tracking the markets the COT covers, July 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 2026-08-04, from When Is the COT Report Released?.

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Units versus dollars: seven funds tracking the markets the COT covers, July 2026 — 7 rows by 4 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
tickerunit_size_usdshare_of_units_pctshare_of_dollars_pct
SPY744.9931.7550.07
QQQ700.2427.7441.12
GLD373.114.463.52
USO121.954.61.19
TLT83.8916.182.87
SLV52.929.861.11
UNG10.525.410.12
Rows × columns
7 × 4
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds

Column definitions for Units versus dollars: seven funds tracking the markets the COT covers, July 2026, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
ticker text 7 distinct values (GLD, QQQ, SLV…)
unit_size_usd number 10.52 to 744.99 US dollars
share_of_units_pct number 4.46 to 31.75 percent
share_of_dollars_pct number 0.12 to 50.07 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.

the exact SQL behind every number
WITH raw AS (
    SELECT ticker,
           toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York') AS et,
           close,
           volume
    FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
    WHERE ticker IN ('SPY', 'QQQ', 'TLT', 'GLD', 'SLV', 'USO', 'UNG')
      AND window_start >= toDateTime('2026-07-01 00:00:00')
      AND window_start < toDateTime('2026-08-01 00:00:00')
),
rth AS (
    SELECT ticker,
           volume AS shares,
           toFloat64(close) * volume AS dollars
    FROM raw
    WHERE (toHour(et) * 60 + toMinute(et)) BETWEEN 570 AND 959
)
SELECT ticker,
       round(sum(dollars) / sum(shares), 2) AS unit_size_usd,
       round(100 * sum(shares) / sum(sum(shares)) OVER (), 2) AS share_of_units_pct,
       round(100 * sum(dollars) / sum(sum(dollars)) OVER (), 2) AS share_of_dollars_pct
FROM rth
GROUP BY ticker
ORDER BY unit_size_usd DESC

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