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SPCX: SpaceX's First Month on the Public Market
The IPO record: the entity behind SPCX since June 12, 2026scalar · 2026-07-27 · 1×8135 SpaceX's 2026 SEC trail by form type, in filing order (CIK 0001181412, deduped by accession)ranking · 2026-07-27 · 12×4Preview: 12 ranked values, largest first. The whole US tape ranked by June 12–30 regular-hours dollar volumeranking · 2026-07-27 · 12×4Preview: 12 ranked values, largest first. Day one by half hour: quote updates and the median spread finding its levelranking · 2026-07-27 · 13×4Preview: 13 ranked values, smallest first.
Why Do Stocks Gap Up or Down Overnight?
Overnight gaps by ticker, H1 2026: average absolute gap and the single biggest gapseries · 2026-07-26 · 6×5Preview: a 6-point series, ending higher. MSFT straddle prices at the close before the gap: Jan 28, 2026, Jan 30 expirytable · 2026-07-26 · 4×5 MSFT: how the January 29, 2026 gap formed, 30-minute premarket bucketsseries · 2026-07-26 · 11×8Preview: a 11-point series, ending higher. SPY, H1 2026: average absolute overnight gap vs average absolute intraday movescalar · 2026-07-26 · 1×4123 What crossed the wire during SPY's biggest overnight gap of H1 2026table · 2026-07-26 · 2×3 SPY overnight gaps by weekday: every session, January 2024 through June 2026series · 2026-07-26 · 5×4Preview: a 5-point series, ending lower. SPY's six biggest overnight gaps of H1 2026: and the same day's open-to-close moveseries · 2026-07-26 · 6×3Preview: a 6-point series, ending higher.
When Do Mutual Funds Trade? NAV Pricing at 4 pm
The same 15 sessions, summarized: the close's floor, average, and peakscalar · 2026-07-26 · 1×416.3 SPY volume share of the final 30 minutes and final minute: last 15 sessions through July 10, 2026series · 2026-07-26 · 15×3Preview: a 15-point series, ending lower. Month-end sessions vs all other sessions: SPY close concentration, January–June 2026scalar · 2026-07-26 · 1×76 The spread a fund buyer never pays: median quoted spread, July 10, 2026 regular sessionranking · 2026-07-26 · 3×3Preview: 3 ranked values, smallest first. How much of SPY's day trades at the very end: July 10, 2026 regular sessionscalar · 2026-07-26 · 1×322.5 The print NAV is struck from: AAPL's closing auction cross, July 10, 2026scalar · 2026-07-26 · 1×65.47
What Is VWAP? Volume-Weighted Average Price
The receipt: VWAP from every individual trade vs. the minute-bar shortcut (AAPL, July 2, 2026)scalar · 2026-07-26 · 1×5305.9162 Same session, five stocks, five VWAPs: final-minute price vs. session VWAP, July 2, 2026ranking · 2026-07-26 · 5×4Preview: 5 ranked values, largest first. AAPL, July 2, 2026: session VWAP vs. equal-weight average vs. the final-minute pricescalar · 2026-07-26 · 1×8390 AAPL price vs. running VWAP: July 2, 2026 regular session, sampled every 5 minutesseries · 2026-07-26 · 78×3Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher.
What Is the Opening Auction? How Stocks Open
The opening cross vs. the rest of the day: SPY, AAPL, NVDA on July 2, 2026series · 2026-07-26 · 3×12Preview: a 3-point series, ending higher. AAPL volume by quarter-hour, July 2, 2026: pre-market to after-hours (ET)series · 2026-07-26 · 64×2Preview: a 16-point series, roughly flat. The 9:30 bar vs. the 12:30 bar: SPY, AAPL, NVDA on July 2, 2026table · 2026-07-26 · 3×8 The tape's own labels for the open, straight from the code dictionaryranking · 2026-07-26 · 5×3Preview: 5 ranked values, smallest first. The receipt: AAPL's opening cross vs. everything that traded before it, July 1-2, 2026scalar · 2026-07-26 · 1×14390
What Is the Closing Auction? (Closing Cross)
Quarter-end (June 30) vs. mid-month (June 16, 2026): the same three closing auctionstable · 2026-07-26 · 3×8 The tape's own labels for the close, straight from the code dictionaryranking · 2026-07-26 · 4×3Preview: 4 ranked values, smallest first. The closing auction vs. everything else: SPY, AAPL, NVDA on July 2, 2026table · 2026-07-26 · 3×10 The receipt: AAPL's auction print vs. its last continuous trade, July 2, 2026scalar · 2026-07-26 · 1×12390
What Is Days to Cover? Short Interest Ratio
Every settlement since March 2026: and how long it took to arriveseries · 2026-07-26 · 8×6Preview: a 8-point series, ending higher. GME days to cover, settlement by settlement: June 2020 through the January 29, 2021 squeeze printseries · 2026-07-26 · 15×5Preview: a 15-point series, ending higher. Days to cover, four familiar names: settlement of June 30, 2026ranking · 2026-07-26 · 4×4Preview: 4 ranked values, largest first. Days to cover across liquid names (5M+ shares/day ADV): settlement of June 30, 2026ranking · 2026-07-26 · 5×2Preview: 5 ranked values, largest first. Two crowding measures, six names: short interest as % of shares outstanding vs. days to covertable · 2026-07-26 · 6×5 Highest days to cover among liquid names (5M+ shares/day ADV): settlement of June 30, 2026ranking · 2026-07-26 · 12×4Preview: 12 ranked values, largest first. Days to cover by trading-volume tier: every name in the June 30, 2026 settlementtable · 2026-07-26 · 4×7
What Is Dark Pool Trading? FINRA Volume Data
Where AAPL's trade reports came from on July 2, 2026: and which carry a TRF timestampranking · 2026-07-26 · 6×4Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first. The receipt: TRF timestamps and the FINRA venue code agree on every AAPL reportscalar · 2026-07-26 · 1×5390 Anatomy of TSLA's prints on July 2, 2026: off-exchange vs. on-exchangetable · 2026-07-26 · 2×7 Off-exchange share of matched volume: five liquid names, July 2, 2026ranking · 2026-07-26 · 5×4Preview: 5 ranked values, largest first. NVDA's off-exchange share of volume by Eastern-time hour, July 2, 2026ranking · 2026-07-26 · 16×4Preview: 16 ranked values, largest first.
What Is Average Daily Volume (ADV)?
MU's sharpest 2026 volume shock: the event day vs the trailing ADV before and afterscalar · 2026-07-26 · 1×664.7 MU: rolling 20-session vs 90-session ADV, December 2025 through July 10, 2026 (sampled every third session)series · 2026-07-26 · 49×3Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. Options ADV: average daily contracts and share-equivalent exposure (June 11 – July 10, 2026)ranking · 2026-07-26 · 4×4Preview: 4 ranked values, largest first. ADV by hand: KO's five daily volumes, their sum, and the average (July 6–10, 2026)series · 2026-07-26 · 5×5Preview: a 5-point series, roughly flat. Days to cover, recomputed: FINRA's denominator vs this page's 20-session regular-hours ADV (settlement June 30, 2026)table · 2026-07-26 · 2×6 20-session regular-hours ADV: shares, dollars, and the extended-hours share (June 11 – July 10, 2026)table · 2026-07-26 · 5×5 Dollar ADV across the whole US tape: percentiles and threshold counts (June 11 – July 10, 2026)scalar · 2026-07-26 · 1×1010,864
What Is a Stock Split? Ratios and Mechanics
Forward vs reverse splits per year, all US-listed securities, 2016 through June 2026ranking · 2026-07-26 · 11×3Preview: 11 ranked values, smallest first. After the split: median forward returns for 2025's whole-number forward splits vs SPY over the same sessionsscalar · 2026-07-26 · 1×544 NVDA around its 10-for-1 split: regular-session open and close, last pre-split day vs first post-split dayseries · 2026-07-26 · 2×3Preview: a 2-point series, ending lower. NVDA trading volume, 20 sessions before vs 20 sessions from its 10-for-1 split (June 10, 2024)ranking · 2026-07-26 · 2×4Preview: 2 ranked values, largest first. Notable US stock splits since 2020: ratio, how the action was recorded, and the next 21 sessions vs SPYtable · 2026-07-26 · 15×6 Most common forward split ratios, July 2025 through June 2026: whole-number ratios, all US-listed securitiesranking · 2026-07-26 · 6×2Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first. A decade of splits, 2016-2025: forward vs reverse totals and the annual scorescalar · 2026-07-26 · 1×44,122
Stock Float vs. Shares Outstanding Explained
Shares outstanding across every company with a recent quarterly filing: percentiles, in millions of sharesscalar · 2026-07-26 · 1×66,111 Daily high-low range and dollar volume by shares-outstanding tier: US common stocks, regular-hours sessions, June 11 to July 10, 2026table · 2026-07-26 · 5×5 Share counts from the latest quarterly income statements on record: three megacapstable · 2026-07-26 · 3×5 Medline (MDLN): the 20 sessions before its 180-day mark vs. every session from it, regular-hours volume and daily rangeseries · 2026-07-26 · 2×8Preview: a 2-point series, ending lower. From every H1 2026 US-dollar listing down to the measured setscalar · 2026-07-26 · 1×5184 Eight of H1 2026's biggest measured US IPOs: shares offered vs. shares outstanding at listingtable · 2026-07-26 · 8×5 Float at listing: shares offered as a share of recorded shares outstanding, H1 2026 US IPOs of $100M+scalar · 2026-07-26 · 1×539
What Is a Block Trade? Big Prints & the Data
The same block scan on SPY: July 6, 2026scalar · 2026-07-26 · 1×7669,171 AAPL's ten largest prints of July 6, 2026: the whole tapeseries · 2026-07-26 · 10×6Preview: a 10-point series, ending lower. Where AAPL's 10,000-share-and-up prints executed: July 6, 2026table · 2026-07-26 · 4×5 Block-size prints vs the whole AAPL tape: July 6, 2026, with the session receiptscalar · 2026-07-26 · 1×9390
The 2011 US Downgrade: Black Monday's Tape
The ten worst SPY sessions, 2003–2025: August 8, 2011 is the odd one outseries · 2026-07-26 · 10×5Preview: a 10-point series, roughly flat. Treasury yields through the downgrade window, August 1–15, 2011series · 2026-07-26 · 11×5Preview: a 11-point series, ending lower. The recovery, dated: reclaim, failed hold, true bottom, and the last close belowscalar · 2026-07-26 · 1×9120.03 SPY by half-hour: August 8, 2011 regular sessionseries · 2026-07-26 · 13×4Preview: a 13-point series, ending higher. August 8, 2011 across the tape: banks, staples, gold, and the fear gaugeranking · 2026-07-26 · 9×4Preview: 9 ranked values, smallest first. SPY on August 8, 2011: the downgrade Monday, receiptedscalar · 2026-07-26 · 1×11120.03 SPY closes, August 8-12, 2011: crash, rip, crash, ripseries · 2026-07-26 · 5×4Preview: a 5-point series, ending lower.
Feb 24, 2022: War at the Open, Green by Close
2-year and 10-year Treasury yields, February 18 – March 8, 2022 (%)series · 2026-07-26 · 12×3Preview: a 12-point series, ending lower. QQQ sessions since 2003: intraday low ≤ −3% vs prior close AND close ≥ +1%series · 2026-07-26 · 2×4Preview: a 2-point series, ending lower. QQQ by half-hour: February 24, 2022 regular sessionseries · 2026-07-26 · 13×4Preview: a 13-point series, ending lower. After the reversal: when QQQ broke the invasion-day low, and how far it fellscalar · 2026-07-26 · 1×10340.65 QQQ on February 24, 2022: the invasion-day reversal, receiptedscalar · 2026-07-26 · 1×14329.41 Eleven tickers on February 24, 2022: gap, intraday extremes, close (% vs prior close)table · 2026-07-26 · 11×6 QQQ daily closes, February 22 – March 14, 2022series · 2026-07-26 · 15×4Preview: a 15-point series, roughly flat.
Treasury Yield Curve, H1 2026: Twist, Not Shift
The rank receipt: H1 2026's twist against every prior half, by absolute sizescalar · 2026-07-26 · 1×642 Every half-year since 1976: the 2y and 10y change, the twist between them, and the half's lowest 2s10s printtable · 2026-07-26 · 100×7 The 30-year's half: start, end, the first and last 5% prints, time spent at or above 5%, and the highscalar · 2026-07-26 · 1×84.86 The 2s10s spread, every print of the halftable · 2026-07-26 · 124×2 The 2s10s slope receipt: start, end, minimum (with its date), maximum, and print countscalar · 2026-07-26 · 1×672 The H1 2026 move per maturity, split into quarters: the hump sits squarely on the 2-yearranking · 2026-07-26 · 7×4Preview: 7 ranked values, largest first. Seven maturities, three single-day snapshots: the half's first print, the last March print, and the last June printranking · 2026-07-26 · 7×4Preview: 7 ranked values, smallest first.
SEC EDGAR Index Gap: the Missing Month-Ends
Every weekday month-end since 2020: filings indexed on the month's last calendar daytable · 2026-07-26 · 55×2 Every weekday month-end since 2020 with fewer than 1,000 filings: count, companies touched, and the neighbouring days' averagetable · 2026-07-26 · 6×6 Filing counts on the last weekday of each 2026 month, with prior-year weekday month-ends as controlsranking · 2026-07-26 · 8×3Preview: 8 ranked values, largest first. Status receipt: the March and April boundary days, their arrival times, and their counts as of this runscalar · 2026-07-26 · 1×655 When each day's rows actually landed in the warehouse, June 26 to the front edgeranking · 2026-07-26 · 10×3Preview: 10 ranked values, largest first. Form types on the gap day (June 30, 2026) against the trading day before itranking · 2026-07-26 · 14×3Preview: 14 ranked values, smallest first. Is June 30, 2026 missing anywhere else? The same day across five date-keyed datasetsranking · 2026-07-26 · 5×3Preview: 5 ranked values, largest first.
The Best and Worst Thousand Dollars of June 2026
The ride, session by session: daily turnover, last price, and the thousand-dollar position's markseries · 2026-07-26 · 10×6Preview: a 10-point series, ending higher. The loss pile by root: contracts down 90%+ from first print, share of the pile, and each root's ten-baggerstable · 2026-07-26 · 6×6 The most expensive ticket to zero: the priciest contract that ended at two cents or lessscalar · 2026-07-26 · 1×510 The entry receipt: the winner's first print, its second, and every penny print of its June life (one row)scalar · 2026-07-26 · 1×110.01 The full distribution: for every jackpot, thousands of near-total losses (put/call split included)scalar · 2026-07-26 · 1×1030,951
SPY option volume, minute by minute into the 9:30 open

SPY option volume, minute by minute into the 9:30 open

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SPY option volume, minute by minute into the 9:30 open — 46 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
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09:2500
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09:2800
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09:317850100
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09:4339642100
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the exact SQL behind every number
WITH tape AS
(
    SELECT
        toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60
      + toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))              AS minute_of_day,
        countDistinct(toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))) AS days_traded,
        sum(volume)                                                         AS contracts
    FROM global_markets.options_minute_aggs
    WHERE startsWith(ticker, 'O:SPY')
      AND length(ticker) = 20
      AND window_start >= today() - 12
      AND window_start <  today() - 2
    GROUP BY minute_of_day
)
SELECT
    formatDateTime(toDateTime('2026-01-01 00:00:00') + grid.minute_of_day * 60, '%H:%i')         AS et_time,
    toUInt64(round(ifNull(t.contracts, 0) / greatest((SELECT max(days_traded) FROM tape), 1)))   AS contract_volume,
    round(100 * ifNull(t.days_traded, 0) / greatest((SELECT max(days_traded) FROM tape), 1), 1)  AS active_pct
FROM
(
    SELECT 555 + arrayJoin(range(46)) AS minute_of_day
) AS grid
LEFT JOIN tape AS t ON t.minute_of_day = grid.minute_of_day
ORDER BY grid.minute_of_day
$