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REST Polling vs WebSockets for Market Data
NVDA quote updates per second, grouped by how busy the second wasranking · 2026-10-09 · 5×3Preview: 5 ranked values, smallest first. AAPL opening minute: quote updates and distinct prices, second by secondtable · 2026-10-09 · 60×4 Quote messages per second, four names, 10:30 to 11:00 a.m. ETranking · 2026-10-09 · 4×3Preview: 4 ranked values, largest first. AAPL trades per second, fifteen minute buckets through the sessionseries · 2026-10-09 · 26×2Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower.
Weekly Market Recap: The Week in Numbers
Where the volume went: most dollars traded over the past weekranking · 2026-10-08 · 8×2Preview: 8 ranked values, largest first. The eleven S&P 500 sectors over the past weekranking · 2026-10-08 · 11×2Preview: 11 ranked values, largest first. Biggest stock losers over the past weekranking · 2026-10-08 · 7×3Preview: 7 ranked values, smallest first. The major index ETFs over the past weekranking · 2026-10-08 · 4×4Preview: 4 ranked values, largest first. Biggest stock gainers over the past weekranking · 2026-10-08 · 7×3Preview: 7 ranked values, largest first. Daily market breadth: advancers vs decliners each session (names trading $500M+)series · 2026-10-08 · 5×3Preview: a 5-point series, ending lower.
Upcoming Stock Splits Calendar
Upcoming US stock splits: announced, with a future effective datetable · 2026-10-08 · 27×5 Announced upcoming splits by directionranking · 2026-10-08 · 2×2Preview: 2 ranked values, largest first. Announced stock splits by effective month: forward vs reverseseries · 2026-10-08 · 3×4Preview: a 3-point series, ending lower.
Recent Stock Splits (Forward and Reverse)
Forward vs reverse splits executed in the last 45 daysranking · 2026-10-08 · 2×2Preview: 2 ranked values, largest first. Recent reverse stock splits (shares consolidated), last 30 daysranking · 2026-10-08 · 15×4Preview: 15 ranked values, largest first. Recent forward stock splits (shares multiplied), last 60 days, ETFs excludedranking · 2026-10-08 · 15×4Preview: 15 ranked values, largest first.
Highest IV Rank Stocks Right Now
Where IV percentile sits furthest above IV rank, latest sessiontable · 2026-10-08 · 12×6 How the screened universe distributes across IV rank, latest sessiontable · 2026-10-08 · 10×7 The top-ranked name's implied volatility by week, with its 52-week high and lowseries · 2026-10-08 · 53×4Preview: a 16-point series, roughly flat. Highest IV rank, screened US underlyings, latest options sessionseries · 2026-10-08 · 15×7Preview: a 15-point series, ending lower. IV rank and IV percentile for twelve widely held tickers, latest sessionseries · 2026-10-08 · 12×7Preview: a 12-point series, roughly flat.
Highest Implied Volatility Stocks Right Now
SPY, the same measurement: the market's calm benchmarkscalar · 2026-10-08 · 1×312.3 ATM implied volatility across every actively traded underlying, latest sessionscalar · 2026-10-08 · 1×5959 Highest ATM implied volatility: liquid single names and funds, latest sessiontable · 2026-10-08 · 12×5
Does OPRA Have Depth of Book? Feed Explained
Options trade prints by exchange count, five household names (Sep 16, 2026)ranking · 2026-10-08 · 5×3Preview: 5 ranked values, largest first. Traded volume across strikes, one AAPL expiry (Sep 16, 2026)table · 2026-10-08 · 55×3 Distinct AAPL option contracts trading, by hour of the sessionranking · 2026-10-08 · 8×2Preview: 8 ranked values, largest first. One contract, one minute: displayed size at each exchange's best quoteranking · 2026-10-08 · 8×4Preview: 8 ranked values, largest first. Contracts in the chain versus contracts that traded (Sep 16, 2026)ranking · 2026-10-08 · 12×3Preview: 12 ranked values, largest first.
Dividend Increases & Cuts This Week
Increases against cuts, by week of declaration (complete weeks only)series · 2026-10-08 · 26×4Preview: a 16-point series, roughly flat. Payers across their own share split: the raw change against the split-adjusted changeseries · 2026-10-08 · 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 · 2026-10-08 · 4×6 Dividend increases declared in the last 7 days, largest companies first (capped at 12 rows)series · 2026-10-08 · 7×8Preview: a 7-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 · 2026-10-08 · 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 · 2026-10-08 · 10×4Preview: 10 ranked values, smallest first. The four major index ETFs this week, for contextranking · 2026-10-08 · 4×2Preview: 4 ranked values, largest first. Biggest stock gainers this week (names trading $1B+, leveraged/inverse ETFs excluded)ranking · 2026-10-08 · 10×4Preview: 10 ranked values, largest first.
Biggest Stock Movers This Month
The window and the screened universe behind every board on this pagescalar · 2026-10-08 · 1×521 Where every screened company landed: monthly returns by bucketranking · 2026-10-08 · 6×2Preview: 6 ranked values, smallest first. Eight household mega-cap names over the same windowranking · 2026-10-08 · 8×2Preview: 8 ranked values, largest first. Biggest stock losers this month (companies trading $1B+ over the window)ranking · 2026-10-08 · 10×3Preview: 10 ranked values, smallest first. The four major index trackers across the same window, rebased to the first openseries · 2026-10-08 · 21×5Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. Biggest stock gainers this month (companies trading $1B+ over the window)ranking · 2026-10-08 · 10×3Preview: 10 ranked values, largest first.
Average Dividend Yield by Sector: 2026 Data
Basket median dividend yield by month, with the 10-year Treasury yieldseries · 2026-10-08 · 36×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. The universe choice: sector means with and without non-payerstable · 2026-10-08 · 11×6 Dividend yield by sector: median payer, equal-weighted mean, cap-weightedtable · 2026-10-08 · 11×5 Dividends paid as a share of operating cash flow, by sectorranking · 2026-10-08 · 11×3Preview: 11 ranked values, smallest first.
Stocks at 52-Week Highs and Lows
How far the whole screen sits below its 52-week highranking · 2026-10-08 · 6×4Preview: 6 ranked values, smallest first. Stocks at 52-week lows, ordered by year-to-date returnranking · 2026-10-08 · 12×3Preview: 12 ranked values, largest first. Where five broad-market ETFs sit inside their own 52-week rangeranking · 2026-10-08 · 5×4Preview: 5 ranked values, smallest first. Stocks at 52-week highs, ordered by year-to-date returnranking · 2026-10-08 · 12×3Preview: 12 ranked values, smallest first. New 52-week highs against new lows, daily, over the past six weeksseries · 2026-10-08 · 30×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower.
Market data quality checks that catch real bugs
Declared split ratio against the close ratio across the effective dateranking · 2026-10-07 · 10×3Preview: 10 ranked values, largest first. One symbol's quote messages against the sequence numbers they spanseries · 2026-10-07 · 60×3Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. Condition codes on one hour of prints, named from the exchange reference listranking · 2026-10-07 · 9×3Preview: 9 ranked values, largest first. Venue stamp to consolidated stamp, minute by minuteseries · 2026-10-07 · 60×3Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. Locked, crossed and one sided quote rates across six household namesranking · 2026-10-07 · 6×4Preview: 6 ranked values, smallest first.
Stock Correlation Matrix in One SQL Query
Daily bars per name against sessions shared with SPY, Oct 2025 to Sep 2026ranking · 2026-10-06 · 6×3Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first. AAPL and MSFT return correlation measured quarter by quarterranking · 2026-10-06 · 7×3Preview: 7 ranked values, largest first. Correlation of price levels against correlation of daily returns, same pairsranking · 2026-10-06 · 15×4Preview: 15 ranked values, largest first. Pairwise correlation of daily returns, six large caps, Oct 2025 to Sep 2026ranking · 2026-10-06 · 15×2Preview: 15 ranked values, largest first.
Trading API vs Market Data API: Key Differences
Average quoted spread in basis points, 16 September 2026ranking · 2026-10-05 · 5×3Preview: 5 ranked values, largest first. September 2026 end of day summary, five household namesranking · 2026-10-05 · 5×4Preview: 5 ranked values, largest first. AAPL top of book message volume by ET hour, 16 September 2026ranking · 2026-10-05 · 8×4Preview: 8 ranked values, largest first.
Why Ticker Symbols Break Your Dataset
When each symbol last printed a daily barranking · 2026-10-04 · 6×3Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first. New listings landing on a symbol that already had historyranking · 2026-10-04 · 11×3Preview: 11 ranked values, smallest first. Which share-class spellings actually carry historyranking · 2026-10-04 · 4×4Preview: 4 ranked values, smallest first. Trading sessions per year under FB and METAranking · 2026-10-04 · 15×3Preview: 15 ranked values, smallest first.
Why Odd Lots Don't Set the NBBO
Round lot size for a basket of familiar tickers, from the latest closeranking · 2026-10-04 · 9×3Preview: 9 ranked values, largest first. Listed names averaging above $250 a share, by monthseries · 2026-10-04 · 24×2Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. How many listed names sit in each round lot tierranking · 2026-10-04 · 4×3Preview: 4 ranked values, largest first. AAPL trade sizes on the 27 April 2026 sessionranking · 2026-10-04 · 4×3Preview: 4 ranked values, largest first.
What Real-Time Market Data Actually Costs
Where AAPL shares printed across venues, June 16 2026ranking · 2026-10-04 · 12×2Preview: 12 ranked values, largest first. US symbols that traded each month over the past yearseries · 2026-10-04 · 12×3Preview: a 12-point series, ending higher. AAPL quote updates by ET clock hour, June 16 2026ranking · 2026-10-04 · 16×3Preview: 16 ranked values, largest first. One ETF's daily record, year by yearranking · 2026-10-04 · 15×3Preview: 15 ranked values, largest first.
What Is a Liquidity Heatmap? How to Read One
AAPL top of book by half hour (ET), latest session: NBBO updates and displayed size at the best bid and ask as a share of the peak bucketseries · 2026-10-04 · 32×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher.
US Stocks 23/5 Trading: The December 2026 Plan
Extended-hours sale conditions defined on the taperanking · 2026-10-04 · 3×3Preview: 3 ranked values, smallest first. SPY daily bar volume vs. the regular-session slice (trailing month)series · 2026-10-04 · 19×5Preview: a 16-point series, roughly flat. Where SPY volume prints today, by ET clock hour (trailing month)ranking · 2026-10-04 · 16×4Preview: 16 ranked values, largest first. Share of volume printed outside 9:30 to 4:00 ET, seven household names (trailing month)ranking · 2026-10-04 · 7×4Preview: 7 ranked values, smallest first.
The Low-Volatility Anomaly
Growth of $100: a calm name (KO), the market (SPY), a wild name (NVDA), weeklyseries · 2026-10-04 · 114×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. Annualized volatility vs total return, 25 large caps, calmest to wildest (~2 years)ranking · 2026-10-04 · 25×3Preview: 16 ranked values, smallest first. Volatility thirds: median return, and the range from worst to best name in eachtable · 2026-10-04 · 3×6
Stock Split Calendar From a Free SQL API
Forward and reverse splits per month, last 36 monthsseries · 2026-10-04 · 36×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. Most common split ratios, last three yearsranking · 2026-10-04 · 12×2Preview: 12 ranked values, largest first. Do the direction labels agree with the ratio columns?ranking · 2026-10-04 · 2×4Preview: 2 ranked values, smallest first. The stock split calendar: recent and scheduledtable · 2026-10-04 · 24×5
Relative Volume Screener in SQL: Free API
Share of a session's volume completed by each half hour: SPY and KOseries · 2026-10-04 · 13×3Preview: a 13-point series, ending higher. Relative volume screener: top 20 by time adjusted RVOL at 11:00 a.m. ETtable · 2026-10-04 · 20×5 Cisco, September 22, 2026: naive RVOL against time adjusted RVOL through the sessionseries · 2026-10-04 · 13×3Preview: a 13-point series, ending higher. Share of the session completed by 11:00 a.m. ET, twelve household namesranking · 2026-10-04 · 12×3Preview: 12 ranked values, largest first.
How Big Is the OPRA Options Quote Feed?
One session, two tapes: every options NBBO update vs. every stock NBBO updatescalar · 2026-10-04 · 1×97.99 SPY's 2026-expiry option chain: one root's share of the quote firehosescalar · 2026-10-04 · 1×13352.9 The five busiest SPY option contracts of the session, symbol unpackedseries · 2026-10-04 · 5×7Preview: a 5-point series, roughly flat.
Free Stock Market Data API, No Key Required
Highest large-cap dividend yields, latest sessionranking · 2026-10-04 · 12×3Preview: 12 ranked values, largest first. SPY vs QQQ, normalized return over the last 45 daysseries · 2026-10-04 · 31×3Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. End-of-day implied-volatility leaders, liquid underlyingsranking · 2026-10-04 · 12×2Preview: 12 ranked values, largest first.
Free SQL API for Stock Market Data
SPY implied volatility by days-to-expiry bucket, latest sessionranking · 2026-10-04 · 11×2Preview: 11 ranked values, smallest first. P/E ratios of US companies above $500B market capranking · 2026-10-04 · 12×2Preview: 12 ranked values, largest first.
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NVDA quote updates per second, grouped by how busy the second was

NVDA quote updates per second, grouped by how busy the second was

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NVDA quote updates per second, grouped by how busy the second was — 5 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
updates_in_the_secondshare_of_seconds_pctshare_of_messages_pct
1 update0.20
2 to 51.70.1
6 to 208.11.3
21 to 10062.442.9
over 10027.655.8
the exact SQL behind every number
WITH
    per_second AS
    (
        SELECT
            toDateTime(sip_timestamp) AS second_bucket,
            count()                   AS messages
        FROM global_markets.cache_stocks_quotes
        WHERE ticker = 'NVDA'
          AND sip_timestamp >= '2026-09-15 13:30:00'
          AND sip_timestamp <  '2026-09-15 15:30:00'
        GROUP BY second_bucket
    ),
    totals AS
    (
        SELECT
            count()       AS second_count,
            sum(messages) AS message_count
        FROM per_second
    )
SELECT
    multiIf(messages = 1,    '1 update',
            messages <= 5,   '2 to 5',
            messages <= 20,  '6 to 20',
            messages <= 100, '21 to 100',
            'over 100')                                                  AS updates_in_the_second,
    round(100.0 * count() / (SELECT second_count FROM totals), 1)         AS share_of_seconds_pct,
    round(100.0 * sum(messages) / (SELECT message_count FROM totals), 1) AS share_of_messages_pct
FROM per_second
GROUP BY updates_in_the_second
ORDER BY min(messages)
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