Unusual Options Activity: Last Session
Market-wide options volume by session, with monthly expirations labelledseries ·
2026-10-08 · 25×5
Calls or puts: the board's call and put contract volume on the same sessiontable ·
2026-10-08 · 10×5
What follows a heavy options session: next-session absolute move vs. the same names on an ordinary daytable ·
2026-10-08 · 5×6
What the session's contracts were made of: options volume by days to expiryranking ·
2026-10-08 · 6×4
Unusual options activity: last completed session vs. each underlying's own 20-session averagetable ·
2026-10-08 · 10×8
SPCX: SpaceX Stock Price Decline From Peak
SPY vs SPCX open-to-close, regular hours, trailing three weeksseries ·
2026-10-08 · 14×4
Stock quote spread and depth by session: the four weeks from listing and the trailing threeseries ·
2026-10-08 · 33×5
The arc on one row: issue price, first print, June peak, and the latest closescalar ·
2026-10-08 · 1×18150
Options quote spread and size at the touch, the sessions on file in the past week and a halfseries ·
2026-10-08 · 5×6
Put/call volume ratio by session, trailing three weeksseries ·
2026-10-08 · 15×5
News-feed attention from listing day to the latest reading: counts, concentration, and the trailing weekscalar ·
2026-10-08 · 1×14769
Latest complete session, half-hour path: closes, lows, and volumeseries ·
2026-10-08 · 13×4
Latest session on file: the busiest SPCX option contracts by volumetable ·
2026-10-08 · 10×5
Sessions from listing to the first close below the first print: SPCX vs four recent IPOstable ·
2026-10-08 · 5×11
Every SPCX filing in the EDGAR index since the June 12 listing, on one rowscalar ·
2026-10-08 · 1×1123
Regular-hours session scoreboard: open, close, low, high, volume for every SPCX session since listingseries ·
2026-10-08 · 80×7
One Clearinghouse, Many Options Exchanges
Where AAPL option volume printed across venues, September 15, 2026ranking ·
2026-10-07 · 18×3
Median quoted spread in the underlying stock, one midday hourranking ·
2026-10-07 · 5×3
Listed contracts per underlying on the most recent September 2026 sessionranking ·
2026-10-07 · 5×4
US options exchanges on the official participant listtable ·
2026-10-07 · 20×4
Near the money AAPL implied volatility and vega by days to expiryranking ·
2026-10-07 · 5×3
Unusual Volume Stocks This Week, Measured
How the whole qualifying universe traded this week, bucketed by relative volumeranking ·
2026-10-06 · 7×4
Persistence check: the eight leaders' daily relative volume across the five sessionstable ·
2026-10-06 · 8×5
Highest relative volume this week: trailing 5 sessions vs. the prior 40, for names trading $500M+ in the weekseries ·
2026-10-06 · 8×6
The board leader, day by day: daily relative volume and open-to-close change (last 15 sessions)series ·
2026-10-06 · 15×5
Wild multiples the dollar floor removes: highest relative volume among names trading under $500M this weekseries ·
2026-10-06 · 6×5
Why Stocks Halt: Limit Up-Limit Down Bands
Where listed symbols sit by price, and which band rule governs each zoneranking ·
2026-10-04 · 6×3
Average minute range through the session, five liquid namesseries ·
2026-10-04 · 26×3
How far eight stocks move in a five minute window, trailing yearranking ·
2026-10-04 · 8×4
What a 5 percent band is worth in dollars, by price levelranking ·
2026-10-04 · 8×4
Why Are Spreads Wider at the Open? Real Data
Window guard: the UTC session filter maps to a 9:30 a.m. ET start on both ends of the rolling windowscalar ·
2026-10-04 · 1×2570
Share of quote updates at the one-cent minimum spread, by half hour (regular hours, ET)series ·
2026-10-04 · 13×4
Median spread each half hour, as a multiple of each name's tightest bucket (regular hours, ET)series ·
2026-10-04 · 13×4
Session by session: how often, and by how much, the open ran wider than middaytable ·
2026-10-04 · 3×6
Median quoted spread by phase of the trading day, in basis points (ET clock)ranking ·
2026-10-04 · 5×4
The opening premium priced: median and 90th-percentile spread at the open (9:30-10:00 ET) vs. midday (12:00-14:00 ET)table ·
2026-10-04 · 3×12
MU: median quoted spread by half hour on July 7, 2026 (ET, regular hours)series ·
2026-10-04 · 13×5
MU into July 7, 2026: prior regular-session close, opening print, overnight gapscalar ·
2026-10-04 · 1×3984.31
Which Stocks Have Daily Options?
Monday, Wednesday, Friday expirations: distinct option roots carrying an expiry on each weekdayseries ·
2026-10-04 · 5×3
Daily options vs weekly options: upcoming expiration dates for six household tickersranking ·
2026-10-04 · 6×3
SPY's expiration on every trading day: each near-term SPY expiry date, its weekday and volumeseries ·
2026-10-04 · 12×4
Which tickers carry the most upcoming expirations: option roots by distinct expiration dates in the next six weeksranking ·
2026-10-04 · 20×3
What It Costs to Trade a Stock, Measured
The one-cent floor: share price, percent of quotes exactly one cent wide, and what a penny costs in bpstable ·
2026-10-04 · 5×6
NVDA vs SOXS: median quoted spread over the window, with the smallest single-session gapscalar ·
2026-10-04 · 1×50.87
NVDA vs SOXS: median quoted spread by session (bps of the midpoint)series ·
2026-10-04 · 5×4
The cost-to-trade ladder: median quoted spread in bps of the midpoint, regular hours, recent completed sessionstable ·
2026-10-04 · 12×5
What Is the NBBO? National Best Bid and Offer
NBBO updates per session: four heavily traded names vs. two thin small capsseries ·
2026-10-04 · 6×5
Exchange stamp to SIP stamp: the consolidation step, in microsecondsranking ·
2026-10-04 · 4×3
The smallest size the NBBO will show: six names across the price tiersranking ·
2026-10-04 · 6×4
KO: ten consecutive NBBO updates from 1:30 p.m. ET on a recent sessionseries ·
2026-10-04 · 10×7
GME, 2024-05-14: NBBO updates and trades per minute across a five-minute LULD pauseseries ·
2026-10-04 · 15×3
AAPL: average NBBO updates per minute by half-hour bucket (ET, 4 a.m. to 8 p.m.)series ·
2026-10-04 · 32×3
What Is FINRA Short Interest? Days to Cover
TSLA short interest vs. average daily volume, bi-monthly (last 2 years)series ·
2026-10-04 · 47×3
Short interest reporting dates: recent settlements, weekday, coverage and publication lagseries ·
2026-10-04 · 9×5
How liquid US stocks distribute by short interest as a percent of shares outstandingranking ·
2026-10-04 · 5×4
The latest FINRA short interest file: one snapshot of the whole marketscalar ·
2026-10-04 · 1×422,593
GameStop, Nov 2020 – Mar 2021: short interest, days to cover and the closing price at each settlementseries ·
2026-10-04 · 10×4
Days to cover across all liquid US tickers, latest settlement (min 1M shares/day)scalar ·
2026-10-04 · 1×62,642
Six household names at the latest settlement: shares short, percent of shares outstanding, days to covertable ·
2026-10-04 · 6×6
What Is RVOL (Relative Volume)? How to Read It
SPY: median shares traded per minute, by 30-minute clock bucket (ET, last 30 days, extended hours)series ·
2026-10-04 · 32×2
SPY: average share of full-day volume completed by each clock time (last 20 sessions)ranking ·
2026-10-04 · 5×2
Top 10 by full-day RVOL: latest completed session (20-day ADV above 5M shares, full history required)series ·
2026-10-04 · 10×5
Full-day RVOL percentiles across high-volume US stocks and ETFs (20-day ADV above 5M shares), latest completed sessionranking ·
2026-10-04 · 6×2
MU, the biggest-volume session of June 2026: time-adjusted vs. naive RVOL, plus the full-day figurescalar ·
2026-10-04 · 1×832.8
What Is a Reverse Stock Split? Good or Bad?
2026 executed US stock splits: reverse vs. forwardscalar ·
2026-10-04 · 1×3937
The most recent US reverse stock splits on recordseries ·
2026-10-04 · 12×4
2026's most common reverse split ratiosranking ·
2026-10-04 · 10×2
Where reverse-split companies stood a year later (splits executed 12-18 months ago)ranking ·
2026-10-04 · 3×3
ASST: daily closes around its 1-for-20 reverse split (execution date 2026-02-06)series ·
2026-10-04 · 69×3
Reverse vs. forward splits by year, 2019 to todayranking ·
2026-10-04 · 8×4
ASST's reverse split history on recordseries ·
2026-10-04 · 2×6
What happened next: median move after a reverse split vs. SPY, splits executed 4-9 months agoseries ·
2026-10-04 · 3×7
What Is a Bid-Ask Spread? Real Costs
Typical quoted spread: six liquid names vs. two thin small caps, with the 100-share costranking ·
2026-10-04 · 8×4
AAPL median quoted spread by 30-minute bucket (ET, extended hours included)series ·
2026-10-04 · 32×2
The same curve at four checkpoints: premarket, the open, midday, the closeseries ·
2026-10-04 · 4×2
AAPL: the last recorded NBBO quote in our data windowscalar ·
2026-10-04 · 1×70.015
NYSE Parity and D-Quotes: How Fills Allocate
Average shares per trade, ten household namesranking ·
2026-10-04 · 10×3
Coca-Cola closing print as a share of session volume, by monthseries ·
2026-10-04 · 24×2
The closing auction print as a share of regular-session volumeranking ·
2026-10-04 · 10×3
Market-Wide Circuit Breakers Explained
SPY-equivalent circuit breaker levels for the next sessiontable ·
2026-10-04 · 3×7
March 2020 session by session: open, low and close versus the prior closeseries ·
2026-10-04 · 22×6
The four Level 1 halt sessions of March 2020series ·
2026-10-04 · 4×8
How the three lines move with each SPY closeseries ·
2026-10-04 · 15×5
Locked and Crossed Markets, Explained With Data
Whole-tape census: locked, crossed, and one-sided records across every NBBO update of the sessionscalar ·
2026-10-04 · 1×7464
The receipts: locked vs crossed totals, and the rate by session stretch (premarket, open, noon, close, ET)scalar ·
2026-10-04 · 1×10319.2
The census by name: eight liquid tickers and two thin small caps, recent completed sessionstable ·
2026-10-04 · 10×7
Locked-or-crossed records per 10,000 updates by 30-minute ET bucket, checked set, extended hours includedseries ·
2026-10-04 · 32×3
How Do Market Makers Make Money? The Spread
US stock venues: public exchanges vs off-exchange reporting facilitiesranking ·
2026-10-04 · 2×3
AAPL trades by venue, latest session: off-exchange firstranking ·
2026-10-04 · 19×4
Average quoted spread: liquid mega-caps vs a thin small-cap (past week)ranking ·
2026-10-04 · 3×4
AAPL average quoted spread by half-hour (ET), one extended sessionseries ·
2026-10-04 · 32×2
AAPL: NBBO quote updates on the latest sessionscalar ·
2026-10-04 · 1×40.72
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 · 5×7
Does Canada Have After-Hours Trading?
Upcoming US market closures and early closesseries ·
2026-10-04 · 12×6
Where US after-hours volume lands in interlisted Canadian names, 15-minute bucketsseries ·
2026-10-04 · 16×4
Share of each name's US tape printed outside the regular sessionranking ·
2026-10-04 · 13×3
Interlisted US volume on five days the Toronto market sat closedseries ·
2026-10-04 · 5×3
Who Matches Overnight US Stock Trades?
US stock venue records that are not exchangestable ·
2026-10-03 · 9×4
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Market-wide options volume by session, with monthly expirations labelled
Market-wide options volume by session, with monthly expirations labelled
| session | contracts_m | session_type | monthly_expiry_m | session_id |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1 | 63.3 | ordinary | 76.1 | 20260901 |
| Sep 2 | 59.9 | ordinary | 76.1 | 20260902 |
| Sep 3 | 72 | ordinary | 76.1 | 20260903 |
| Sep 4 | 71.2 | ordinary | 76.1 | 20260904 |
| Sep 8 | 61.6 | ordinary | 76.1 | 20260908 |
| Sep 9 | 61.9 | ordinary | 76.1 | 20260909 |
| Sep 10 | 64.3 | ordinary | 76.1 | 20260910 |
| Sep 11 | 68.3 | ordinary | 76.1 | 20260911 |
| Sep 14 | 67.5 | ordinary | 76.1 | 20260914 |
| Sep 15 | 56.6 | ordinary | 76.1 | 20260915 |
| Sep 16 | 65.4 | ordinary | 76.1 | 20260916 |
| Sep 17 | 68.2 | ordinary | 76.1 | 20260917 |
| Sep 18 | 76.1 | monthly expiration | 76.1 | 20260918 |
| Sep 21 | 80.3 | ordinary | 76.1 | 20260921 |
| Sep 22 | 63.6 | ordinary | 76.1 | 20260922 |
| Sep 23 | 69 | ordinary | 76.1 | 20260923 |
| Sep 24 | 67.3 | ordinary | 76.1 | 20260924 |
| Sep 25 | 72.6 | ordinary | 76.1 | 20260925 |
| Sep 28 | 66.6 | ordinary | 76.1 | 20260928 |
| Sep 29 | 58.6 | ordinary | 76.1 | 20260929 |
| Sep 30 | 61.8 | ordinary | 76.1 | 20260930 |
| Oct 1 | 69.9 | ordinary | 76.1 | 20261001 |
| Oct 2 | 78.7 | ordinary | 76.1 | 20261002 |
| Oct 5 | 69.4 | ordinary | 76.1 | 20261005 |
| Oct 6 | 63.1 | ordinary | 76.1 | 20261006 |
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
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