venue_share

Name: venue_share
Creator: Strasmore
Published: 2026-09-18
License: https://www.strasmore.com/terms/

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 2026-09-18, from where-to-find-options-trade-data.

as of 2026-09-18 table 18×5read in context →

venue_share — 18 rows by 5 columns, computed 2026-09-18 from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
venue	exchange_id	print_count	prints_label	share_pct
exchange 56	56	161932	161.93 thousand	14.4
exchange 48	48	125094	125.09 thousand	11.1
exchange 46	46	99356	99.36 thousand	8.8
exchange 57	57	89282	89.28 thousand	7.9
exchange 51	51	88348	88.35 thousand	7.8
exchange 47	47	74682	74.68 thousand	6.6
exchange 45	45	70720	70.72 thousand	6.3
exchange 52	52	62401	62.40 thousand	5.5
exchange 44	44	59770	59.77 thousand	5.3
exchange 62	62	47107	47.11 thousand	4.2
exchange 60	60	45834	45.83 thousand	4.1
exchange 53	53	43183	43.18 thousand	3.8
exchange 64	64	35453	35.45 thousand	3.2
exchange 69	69	28870	28.87 thousand	2.6
exchange 66	66	27775	27.77 thousand	2.5
exchange 67	67	24674	24.67 thousand	2.2
exchange 63	63	23990	23.99 thousand	2.1
exchange 59	59	17007	17.01 thousand	1.5

Rows × columns: 18 × 5
Computed: 2026-09-18
Completeness: No missing values
Source: US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
Licence: Strasmore terms · free, no signup
Formats: JSON · CSV · the SQL below

What each column holds

Column definitions for venue_share, derived from the stored result.
Column	Type	Range	Notes
`venue`	text	18 distinct values (exchange 44, exchange 45, exchange 46…)
`exchange_id`	text	18 distinct values (44, 45, 46…)
`print_count`	number	17,007 to 161,932	count
`prints_label`	text	18 distinct values
`share_pct`	number	1.5 to 14.4	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 2026-09-18, and the query below is what returned them.

the exact SQL behind every number

SELECT
    coalesce(nullIf(e.venue, ''), concat('exchange ', toString(t.exchange_id))) AS venue,
    toString(t.exchange_id)                                                     AS exchange_id,
    t.print_count                                                               AS print_count,
    formatReadableQuantity(t.print_count)                                       AS prints_label,
    round(100 * t.print_count / sum(t.print_count) OVER (), 1)                  AS share_pct
FROM
(
    SELECT
        toUInt32(exchange) AS exchange_id,
        count()            AS print_count
    FROM global_markets.options_trades
    WHERE underlying_symbol = 'SPY'
      AND sip_timestamp >= '2025-05-15 00:00:00'
      AND sip_timestamp <  '2025-05-16 00:00:00'
    GROUP BY exchange_id
) AS t
LEFT JOIN
(
    SELECT
        toUInt32(id) AS exchange_id,
        any(name)    AS venue
    FROM global_markets.stocks_exchanges
    WHERE asset_class = 'options'
    GROUP BY exchange_id
) AS e ON t.exchange_id = e.exchange_id
ORDER BY print_count DESC

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