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when-do-vix-options-expire
wednesday_expiriesranking · 2026-09-17 · 12×3Preview: 12 ranked values, largest first.
what-is-the-3m10y-spread
recentseries · 2026-09-17 · 60×6Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. monthlyseries · 2026-09-17 · 241×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. inversionsseries · 2026-09-17 · 9×6Preview: a 9-point series, roughly flat. front_endseries · 2026-09-17 · 42×5Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. episodes_comparedtable · 2026-09-17 · 3×9
what-does-cross-mean-in-trading
quote_statesranking · 2026-09-17 · 3×4Preview: 3 ranked values, largest first. cross_minutesseries · 2026-09-17 · 7×4Preview: a 7-point series, roughly flat. cross_codestable · 2026-09-17 · 13×5
Weekly Market Recap: The Week in Numbers
Where the volume went: most dollars traded over the past weekranking · 2026-09-17 · 8×2Preview: 8 ranked values, largest first. The eleven S&P 500 sectors over the past weekranking · 2026-09-17 · 11×2Preview: 11 ranked values, largest first. Biggest stock losers over the past weekranking · 2026-09-17 · 7×3Preview: 7 ranked values, smallest first. The major index ETFs over the past weekranking · 2026-09-17 · 4×4Preview: 4 ranked values, largest first. Biggest stock gainers over the past weekranking · 2026-09-17 · 7×3Preview: 7 ranked values, largest first. Daily market breadth: advancers vs decliners each session (names trading $500M+)series · 2026-09-17 · 5×3Preview: a 5-point series, roughly flat.
Upcoming Stock Splits Calendar
Upcoming US stock splits: announced, with a future effective datetable · 2026-09-17 · 30×5 Announced upcoming splits by directionranking · 2026-09-17 · 2×2Preview: 2 ranked values, largest first. Announced stock splits by effective month: forward vs reverseseries · 2026-09-17 · 4×4Preview: a 4-point series, ending lower.
Unusual Volume Stocks This Week, Measured
How the whole qualifying universe traded this week, bucketed by relative volumeranking · 2026-09-17 · 7×4Preview: 7 ranked values, smallest first. Persistence check: the eight leaders' daily relative volume across the five sessionstable · 2026-09-17 · 8×5 Highest relative volume this week: trailing 5 sessions vs. the prior 40, for names trading $500M+ in the weekseries · 2026-09-17 · 8×6Preview: a 8-point series, roughly flat. The board leader, day by day: daily relative volume and open-to-close change (last 15 sessions)series · 2026-09-17 · 15×5Preview: a 15-point series, roughly flat. Wild multiples the dollar floor removes: highest relative volume among names trading under $500M this weekseries · 2026-09-17 · 6×5Preview: a 6-point series, ending higher.
Unusual Options Activity: Last Session
Market-wide options volume by session, with monthly expirations labelledseries · 2026-09-17 · 25×5Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. Calls or puts: the board's call and put contract volume on the same sessiontable · 2026-09-17 · 10×5 What follows a heavy options session: next-session absolute move vs. the same names on an ordinary daytable · 2026-09-17 · 5×6 What the session's contracts were made of: options volume by days to expiryranking · 2026-09-17 · 6×4Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first. Unusual options activity: last completed session vs. each underlying's own 20-session averagetable · 2026-09-17 · 10×8
twap-vs-vwap-vs-pov-orders
volume_curveseries · 2026-09-17 · 13×4Preview: a 13-point series, roughly flat. open_vs_lunchtable · 2026-09-17 · 5×6 lunch_povseries · 2026-09-17 · 13×4Preview: a 13-point series, ending higher. curve_dispersionseries · 2026-09-17 · 13×4Preview: a 13-point series, ending higher.
the-7-5-3-1-rule-mutual-funds
worst_windowstable · 2026-09-17 · 8×6 step_uptable · 2026-09-17 · 10×5 rolling_7yseries · 2026-09-17 · 193×5Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. return_bucketsranking · 2026-09-17 · 5×3Preview: 5 ranked values, smallest first.
the-390-rule-in-options-trading
spy_trade_sizesranking · 2026-09-17 · 5×3Preview: 5 ranked values, largest first. spy_option_paceseries · 2026-09-17 · 14×3Preview: a 14-point series, ending lower. session_shapeseries · 2026-09-17 · 16×3Preview: a 16-point series, roughly flat. one_lot_shareranking · 2026-09-17 · 6×4Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first.
Short Squeeze Candidates This Week
Squeeze-shaped mechanics: crowded shorts among liquid names, with a rising priceranking · 2026-09-17 · 12×4Preview: 12 ranked values, largest first. The screened names ranked by short interest against shares outstanding (not float)table · 2026-09-17 · 10×5 Every past screened name, by what it did over the next 30 daysranking · 2026-09-17 · 6×3Preview: 6 ranked values, smallest first. From the whole settlement file down to the screened list, one rule at a timeranking · 2026-09-17 · 4×2Preview: 4 ranked values, largest first. Every input behind this screen, and how many days old it isseries · 2026-09-17 · 3×3Preview: a 3-point series, ending lower. Liquid names at 5+ and 10+ days to cover, settlement by settlementseries · 2026-09-17 · 12×4Preview: a 12-point series, ending higher.
santa-claus-rally
worst_windowstable · 2026-09-17 · 5×5 window_vs_decembertable · 2026-09-17 · 3×8 window_volumeranking · 2026-09-17 · 7×4Preview: 7 ranked values, smallest first. santa_windowstable · 2026-09-17 · 23×5 folklore_testtable · 2026-09-17 · 2×6
Recent Stock Splits (Forward and Reverse)
Forward vs reverse splits executed in the last 45 daysranking · 2026-09-17 · 2×2Preview: 2 ranked values, largest first. Recent reverse stock splits (shares consolidated), last 30 daysranking · 2026-09-17 · 15×4Preview: 15 ranked values, largest first. Recent forward stock splits (shares multiplied), last 60 days, ETFs excludedranking · 2026-09-17 · 15×4Preview: 15 ranked values, largest first.
nasdaq-closing-cross-explained
hourly_profileranking · 2026-09-17 · 16×4Preview: 16 ranked values, largest first. cross_shareseries · 2026-09-17 · 8×4Preview: a 8-point series, ending lower. cross_printtable · 2026-09-17 · 6×6 close_secondsseries · 2026-09-17 · 20×4Preview: a 16-point series, roughly flat. close_codesranking · 2026-09-17 · 4×3Preview: 4 ranked values, smallest first.
Most Shorted Stocks Right Now, Measured
The receipts: universe size, filter bite, median crowding, and list churn at the latest printscalar · 2026-09-17 · 1×522,567 Largest short positions by shares: latest settlement, liquid namesranking · 2026-09-17 · 10×4Preview: 10 ranked values, largest first. Crowding leaders vs. their own price: about one month of sessionsseries · 2026-09-17 · 4×5Preview: a 4-point series, ending higher. GME through the January 2021 squeeze: the same three columns, settlement by settlementseries · 2026-09-17 · 10×4Preview: a 10-point series, ending lower. Today's top-3 crowding leaders, traced back eight settlementsseries · 2026-09-17 · 8×4Preview: a 8-point series, ending higher. Biggest days-to-cover increases, latest settlement vs. the prior printranking · 2026-09-17 · 8×4Preview: 8 ranked values, largest first. Highest days to cover among liquid names: latest settlement on filetable · 2026-09-17 · 10×5
Stock Market Holidays 2026–2027: NYSE & Nasdaq
Upcoming US stock market holidays and early closesseries · 2026-09-17 · 12×6Preview: a 12-point series, ending higher. Recently-passed weekday closures, recovered from the SPY tapeseries · 2026-09-17 · 4×3Preview: a 4-point series, roughly flat. Regular trading sessions over the trailing yearscalar · 2026-09-17 · 1×3251 The closure calendar ahead, at a glancescalar · 2026-09-17 · 1×610
Is the Stock Market Open Today?
This calendar year's closures: already passed (counted from the tape) plus still ahead (from the calendar)table · 2026-09-17 · 2×5 SPY across recent weekends and holiday weekends: Friday's close vs. the reopening printseries · 2026-09-17 · 10×6Preview: a 10-point series, ending lower. Every upcoming NYSE closure and early close on the calendar feed, with a countdownseries · 2026-09-17 · 12×6Preview: a 12-point series, ending higher. Unscheduled closures on the tape: zero regular-session bars on an ordinary weekdayseries · 2026-09-17 · 5×4Preview: a 5-point series, roughly flat. Market status computed at this page's refresh: weekday check, holiday check, and the ET clockscalar · 2026-09-17 · 1×70 The most recent session on the tape: bar count, same-day SPY options prints, and the last half-day observedscalar · 2026-09-17 · 1×6211 Weekdays in the trailing year when stocks traded but no Treasury yield printedtable · 2026-09-17 · 2×2
how-to-store-market-data-pcaps
retention_arithmeticseries · 2026-09-17 · 3×4Preview: a 3-point series, ending lower.
how-to-get-approved-for-options-trading
margin_spread_laddertable · 2026-09-17 · 9×9 cash_account_laddertable · 2026-09-17 · 9×5
Highest Implied Volatility Stocks Right Now
SPY, the same measurement: the market's calm benchmarkscalar · 2026-09-17 · 1×313.2 ATM implied volatility across every actively traded underlying, latest sessionscalar · 2026-09-17 · 1×5969 Highest ATM implied volatility: liquid single names and funds, latest sessiontable · 2026-09-17 · 12×5
do-you-get-the-dividend-if-you-buy-on-the-ex-date
gap_by_monthseries · 2026-09-17 · 40×5Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. ex_open_basketranking · 2026-09-17 · 21×4Preview: 16 ranked values, largest first. aapl_dividendsseries · 2026-09-17 · 8×12Preview: a 8-point series, roughly flat.
Dividend Increases & Cuts This Week
Increases against cuts, by week of declaration (complete weeks only)series · 2026-09-17 · 26×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. Payers across their own share split: the raw change against the split-adjusted changeseries · 2026-09-17 · 9×7Preview: a 9-point series, ending lower. Increases, cuts and the typical raise this calendar year, by company size (bands use today's market value)table · 2026-09-17 · 4×6 Dividend increases declared in the last 7 days, largest companies first (capped at 12 rows)series · 2026-09-17 · 6×8Preview: a 6-point series, ending lower. Dividend cuts declared in the last 90 days, the deepest 14 first (one week is too thin for a table)series · 2026-09-17 · 14×6Preview: a 14-point series, ending higher.
Biggest Stock Gainers and Losers This Week
Biggest stock losers this week (names trading $1B+, leveraged/inverse ETFs excluded)ranking · 2026-09-17 · 10×4Preview: 10 ranked values, smallest first. The four major index ETFs this week, for contextranking · 2026-09-17 · 4×2Preview: 4 ranked values, largest first. Biggest stock gainers this week (names trading $1B+, leveraged/inverse ETFs excluded)ranking · 2026-09-17 · 10×4Preview: 10 ranked values, largest first.
Biggest Stock Movers This Month
The window and the screened universe behind every board on this pagescalar · 2026-09-17 · 1×520 Where every screened company landed: monthly returns by bucketranking · 2026-09-17 · 6×2Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first. Eight household mega-cap names over the same windowranking · 2026-09-17 · 8×2Preview: 8 ranked values, largest first. Biggest stock losers this month (companies trading $1B+ over the window)ranking · 2026-09-17 · 10×3Preview: 10 ranked values, smallest first. The four major index trackers across the same window, rebased to the first openseries · 2026-09-17 · 20×5Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. Biggest stock gainers this month (companies trading $1B+ over the window)ranking · 2026-09-17 · 10×3Preview: 10 ranked values, largest first.
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Verizon (VZ) dividend increases: declaration date, ex dividend date, and step size

Verizon (VZ) dividend increases: declaration date, ex dividend date, and step size

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Verizon (VZ) dividend increases: declaration date, ex dividend date, and step size — 13 rows by 5 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
yeardeclared_labelex_date_labelnew_quarterly_usdraise_cents
2013Sep 2Oct 80.531.5
2014Sep 4Oct 80.552
2015Sep 3Oct 70.5651.5
2016Sep 1Oct 50.57751.25
2017Sep 7Oct 60.591.25
2018Sep 6Oct 90.60251.25
2019Sep 5Oct 90.6151.25
2020Sep 3Oct 80.62751.25
2021Sep 2Oct 70.641.25
2022Sep 6Oct 60.65251.25
2023Sep 7Oct 60.6651.25
2024Sep 4Oct 100.67751.25
2025Sep 5Oct 100.691.25
the exact SQL behind every number
WITH yearly AS (
    SELECT toYear(ex_dividend_date) AS year,
           max(cash_amount) AS top_amount,
           argMax(ex_dividend_date, cash_amount) AS ex_date,
           argMax(declaration_date, cash_amount) AS declared_date
    FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
    WHERE ticker = 'VZ'
      AND distribution_type = 'recurring'
      AND cash_amount > 0
      AND ex_dividend_date >= toDate('2012-01-01')
      AND ex_dividend_date < toDate('2026-01-01')
    GROUP BY year
),
prior AS (
    SELECT year + 1 AS year,
           top_amount AS prior_top
    FROM yearly
)
SELECT year,
       formatDateTime(yearly.declared_date, '%b %e') AS declared_label,
       formatDateTime(yearly.ex_date, '%b %e') AS ex_date_label,
       round(yearly.top_amount, 4) AS new_quarterly_usd,
       round((yearly.top_amount - prior.prior_top) * 100, 2) AS raise_cents
FROM yearly
INNER JOIN prior USING (year)
WHERE yearly.top_amount > prior.prior_top
  AND yearly.declared_date > toDate('2005-01-01')
ORDER BY year
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