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Market Recap: July 29, 2026, The Day in Numbers
Ex-dividends, splits, listings, news, and the July 29 SEC filing mixscalar · 2026-08-01 · 1×1485 Treasury curve prints on file, July 24 through July 29series · 2026-08-01 · 4×5Preview: a 4-point series, ending higher. SPY day move in trailing context (open-to-close, June 29 through July 29)scalar · 2026-08-01 · 1×4-1.41 SPY's median spread ranked against every July session, tightest firstscalar · 2026-08-01 · 1×40.27 Sector ETFs, July 29 close vs July 28 close, rankedranking · 2026-08-01 · 11×3Preview: 11 ranked values, largest first. SPY / QQQ / DIA / IWM: July 29 vs the July 28 close, regular hourstable · 2026-08-01 · 4×10 Stocks NBBO update count: July 29 vs July 28, with named-ticker updates (millions)scalar · 2026-08-01 · 1×6722.65 Options NBBO tape: total updates vs the stock tape, plus the SPY root slice, July 29scalar · 2026-08-01 · 1×313.55 Options tape: contracts, call share, same-day share vs Tuesday, busiest SPY contractscalar · 2026-08-01 · 1×1211.03 Eight mega-caps: change vs July 28 and regular-hours dollars, July 29table · 2026-08-01 · 8×5 Biggest gainers and decliners: July 29 close vs July 28 close, $5M+ traded, splits excludedranking · 2026-08-01 · 16×4Preview: 16 ranked values, largest first. Liquid-tape breadth: July 29 close vs July 28 close, $1M-traded filterscalar · 2026-08-01 · 1×61,652
Market Recap: July 28, 2026, The Day in Numbers
Top 6 by dollars traded, top 4 by shares traded: July 28 regular hourstable · 2026-08-01 · 10×5 Session verification: first/last SPY bar ET, regular-bar count, holiday receipts, next closurescalar · 2026-08-01 · 1×7390 Seven names: RTH median quoted spread in basis points, with quote-quality counts, July 28table · 2026-08-01 · 7×5 July 29 through 31 on the calendar: closures, ex-dividends, splits, the Friday expiry, and the short-interest lagscalar · 2026-08-01 · 1×60 Ex-dividends, splits, listings, news, and the July 28 SEC filing mixscalar · 2026-08-01 · 1×14147 Treasury curve prints on file, July 23 through July 28series · 2026-08-01 · 4×5Preview: a 4-point series, ending higher. SPY day move in trailing context (open-to-close, June 29 through July 28)scalar · 2026-08-01 · 1×40.21 SPY's median spread ranked against every July session, tightest firstscalar · 2026-08-01 · 1×40.27 Sector ETFs, July 28 close vs July 27 close, rankedranking · 2026-08-01 · 11×3Preview: 11 ranked values, largest first. SPY / QQQ / DIA / IWM: July 28 vs the July 27 close, regular hourstable · 2026-08-01 · 4×10 Stocks NBBO update count: July 28 vs July 27, with named-ticker updates (millions)scalar · 2026-08-01 · 1×6536.07 Options NBBO tape: total updates vs the stock tape, plus the SPY root slice, July 28scalar · 2026-08-01 · 1×310.23 Options tape: contracts, call share, same-day share vs Monday, busiest SPY contractscalar · 2026-08-01 · 1×1210.07 Eight mega-caps: change vs July 27 and regular-hours dollars, July 28table · 2026-08-01 · 8×5 Biggest gainers and decliners: July 28 close vs July 27 close, $5M+ traded, splits excludedranking · 2026-08-01 · 16×4Preview: 16 ranked values, largest first. Liquid-tape breadth: July 28 close vs July 27 close, $1M-traded filterscalar · 2026-08-01 · 1×63,519
Market Recap: July 27, 2026, The Day in Numbers
Top 6 by dollars traded, top 4 by shares traded: July 27 regular hourstable · 2026-08-01 · 10×5 Session verification: first/last SPY bar ET, regular-bar count, holiday receipts, next closurescalar · 2026-08-01 · 1×7390 Seven names: RTH median quoted spread in basis points, with quote-quality counts, July 27table · 2026-08-01 · 7×5 July 28 through 31 on the calendar: closures, ex-dividends, splits, the Friday expiry, and the short-interest lagscalar · 2026-08-01 · 1×60 Ex-dividends, splits, listings, news, and the July 27 SEC filing mixscalar · 2026-08-01 · 1×1491 Treasury curve prints on file, July 22 through July 27series · 2026-08-01 · 4×5Preview: a 4-point series, ending lower. SPY day move in trailing context (open-to-close, June 26 through July 27)scalar · 2026-08-01 · 1×4-0.79 SPY's median spread ranked against every July session through the 27th, tightest firstscalar · 2026-08-01 · 1×40.27 Sector ETFs, July 27 close vs July 24 close, rankedranking · 2026-08-01 · 11×3Preview: 11 ranked values, largest first. SPY / QQQ / DIA / IWM: July 27 vs the July 24 close, regular hourstable · 2026-08-01 · 4×10 Stocks NBBO update count: July 27 vs July 24, with named-ticker updates (millions)scalar · 2026-08-01 · 1×6553.53 Options NBBO tape: total updates vs the stock tape, plus the SPY root slice, July 27scalar · 2026-08-01 · 1×310.38 Options tape: contracts, call share, same-day share vs Friday, busiest SPY contractscalar · 2026-08-01 · 1×1211.07 Eight mega-caps: change vs July 24 and regular-hours dollars, July 27table · 2026-08-01 · 8×5 Biggest gainers and decliners: July 27 close vs July 24 close, $5M+ traded, splits excludedranking · 2026-08-01 · 16×4Preview: 16 ranked values, largest first. Liquid-tape breadth: July 27 close vs July 24 close, $1M-traded filterscalar · 2026-08-01 · 1×63,880
Does Dividend Capture Actually Work?
Quarterly dividend as a share of price vs typical daily move: ten large payers, Jul 2023 to Jun 2026ranking · 2026-08-01 · 10×4Preview: 10 ranked values, largest first. Coca-Cola (KO): overnight decline vs dividend on each ex-dividend date, Sep 2023 to Jun 2026series · 2026-08-01 · 12×4Preview: a 12-point series, ending higher. Ex-dividend openings sorted by decline as a multiple of the dividend: US quarterly payers, Jan 2024 to Jun 2026ranking · 2026-08-01 · 5×3Preview: 5 ranked values, smallest first. Overnight decline vs dividend paid: ten large payers, 12 ex-dividend dates each, Jul 2023 to Jun 2026table · 2026-08-01 · 10×5
What Is Max Pain in Options? The Real Math
SPY contracts traded by strike, July 17 2026 expiryranking · 2026-07-31 · 22×3Preview: 16 ranked values, smallest first. Minimising strike vs settlement close: SPY monthly expirations, Feb to Jul 2026table · 2026-07-31 · 6×5 The six lowest-payout candidate strikes, SPY July 17 2026 expiryranking · 2026-07-31 · 6×2Preview: 6 ranked values, smallest first. Total payout to option holders at each candidate settlement price, SPY July 17 2026table · 2026-07-31 · 36×2
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.
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
Market-wide options volume by session, with monthly expirations labelled

Market-wide options volume by session, with monthly expirations labelled

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Market-wide options volume by session, with monthly expirations labelled — 25 rows by 5 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
sessioncontracts_msession_typemonthly_expiry_msession_id
Jul 1670.7ordinary76.820260716
Jul 1776.8monthly expiration76.820260717
Jul 2063.5ordinary76.820260720
Jul 2156.8ordinary76.820260721
Jul 2255.4ordinary76.820260722
Jul 2365.4ordinary76.820260723
Jul 2470.7ordinary76.820260724
Jul 2764.3ordinary76.820260727
Jul 2858.7ordinary76.820260728
Jul 2966.3ordinary76.820260729
Jul 3066.3ordinary76.820260730
Jul 3175.5ordinary76.820260731
Aug 372.7ordinary76.820260803
Aug 478.9ordinary76.820260804
Aug 569.5ordinary76.820260805
Aug 663.2ordinary76.820260806
Aug 773.2ordinary76.820260807
Aug 1061.4ordinary76.820260810
Aug 1154.6ordinary76.820260811
Aug 1255.4ordinary76.820260812
Aug 1366.6ordinary76.820260813
Aug 1466ordinary76.820260814
Aug 1760.9ordinary76.820260817
Aug 1856.9ordinary76.820260818
Aug 1967.2ordinary76.820260819
the exact SQL behind every number
WITH tape AS (
    SELECT toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) AS d,
           sum(toFloat64(volume)) AS vol
    FROM global_markets.options_minute_aggs
    WHERE window_start >= toDateTime(today() - 45, 'America/New_York')
    GROUP BY d
),
ranked AS (
    SELECT d, vol, row_number() OVER (ORDER BY d DESC) AS raw_rn
    FROM tape
),
cal AS (
    SELECT d, vol, rn, sum(if(rn BETWEEN 2 AND 21, 1, 0)) OVER () AS baseline_sessions
    FROM (
        SELECT d, vol, row_number() OVER (ORDER BY d DESC) AS rn
        FROM ranked
        WHERE vol >= 0.75 * (SELECT quantileExact(0.5)(vol) FROM ranked WHERE raw_rn > 1)
    )
),
w AS (
    SELECT d, vol,
           toStartOfMonth(d) + toIntervalDay(((5 - toDayOfWeek(toStartOfMonth(d)) + 7) % 7) + 14) AS third_friday
    FROM cal
    WHERE rn <= 25
),
marked AS (
    SELECT d, vol,
           (d = max(if(d <= third_friday, d, toDate('1970-01-01'))) OVER (PARTITION BY toStartOfMonth(d)))
             AND (third_friday <= max(d) OVER ()) AS is_expiry
    FROM w
),
latest AS (
    SELECT d, vol, is_expiry,
           max(if(is_expiry, d, toDate('1970-01-01'))) OVER () AS last_expiry_d
    FROM marked
)
SELECT formatDateTime(d, '%b %e') AS session,
       round(vol / 1e6, 1) AS contracts_m,
       multiIf(is_expiry, 'monthly expiration', 'ordinary') AS session_type,
       round(max(if(d = last_expiry_d, vol, 0)) OVER () / 1e6, 1) AS monthly_expiry_m,
       toYYYYMMDD(d) AS session_id
FROM latest
ORDER BY d ASC
$