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Median quoted spread on Apple options by contract price, 30 second window on June 17 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 2026-08-07, from Why Your Options Order Isn't Getting Filled.

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Median quoted spread on Apple options by contract price, 30 second window on June 17 2026 — 5 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
price_bucketmedian_spread_centsspread_pct_of_mid
under $0.501775
$0.50 to $22625
$2 to $54011.9
$5 to $15758.6
$15 and up1703.8
Rows × columns
5 × 3
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds

Column definitions for Median quoted spread on Apple options by contract price, 30 second window on June 17 2026, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
price_bucket text 5 distinct values ($0.50 to $2, $15 and up, $2 to $5…)
median_spread_cents number 17 to 170
spread_pct_of_mid number 3.8 to 75 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
SELECT
    price_bucket,
    round(quantileExact(0.5)(spread) * 100, 1)       AS median_spread_cents,
    round(quantileExact(0.5)(100 * spread / mid), 1) AS spread_pct_of_mid
FROM
(
    SELECT
        toFloat64(ask_price) - toFloat64(bid_price)       AS spread,
        (toFloat64(ask_price) + toFloat64(bid_price)) / 2 AS mid,
        multiIf(mid < 0.50,  'under $0.50',
                mid < 2.00,  '$0.50 to $2',
                mid < 5.00,  '$2 to $5',
                mid < 15.00, '$5 to $15',
                             '$15 and up')                AS price_bucket,
        multiIf(mid < 0.50, 1, mid < 2.00, 2, mid < 5.00, 3, mid < 15.00, 4, 5) AS bucket_order
    FROM global_markets.cache_options_quotes
    WHERE ticker IN
    (
        SELECT ticker
        FROM global_markets.options_greeks
        WHERE underlying_symbol = 'AAPL'
          AND date = '2026-06-17'
    )
      AND sip_timestamp >= toDateTime('2026-06-17 18:00:00', 'UTC')
      AND sip_timestamp <  toDateTime('2026-06-17 18:00:30', 'UTC')
      AND bid_price > 0
      AND ask_price > bid_price
)
GROUP BY price_bucket
ORDER BY min(bucket_order)

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