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What Happens When an ETF Closes
How the tape behaved into the final sessionranking · 2026-10-04 · 5×3Preview: 5 ranked values, smallest first. How long retired listings had traded before their last sessionranking · 2026-10-04 · 5×3Preview: 5 ranked values, smallest first. Listings that printed their final daily bar, by yearranking · 2026-10-04 · 11×2Preview: 11 ranked values, smallest first. Final trading days by month, rolling three yearsseries · 2026-10-04 · 33×3Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower.
Mutual Fund Order Cutoff Times by Broker
Upcoming US market closures and early closesseries · 2026-10-04 · 12×7Preview: a 12-point series, ending higher. Full sessions versus shortened sessions over the trailing yearranking · 2026-10-04 · 2×2Preview: 2 ranked values, largest first. Shortened sessions on the SPY tape since January 2024series · 2026-10-04 · 6×5Preview: a 6-point series, roughly flat.
Mutual Fund Forward Pricing Rule Explained
Upcoming exchange closures, the days a fund NAV is skipped or shortenedseries · 2026-10-04 · 12×5Preview: a 12-point series, ending higher. Shares a $10,000 order buys at the screen NAV versus the struck NAV, ten sharpest sessionsranking · 2026-10-04 · 10×4Preview: 10 ranked values, largest first. How far one closing value lands from the last (SPY daily closes, 2023 onward)ranking · 2026-10-04 · 5×3Preview: 5 ranked values, largest first. Average distance from each ET clock mark to the closing print (SPY, trailing months)series · 2026-10-04 · 13×3Preview: a 13-point series, roughly flat.
Mutual Fund Exchange vs Selling and Rebuying
How many calendar days one trading session sits from the nextranking · 2026-10-04 · 4×3Preview: 4 ranked values, largest first. Upcoming US market holidays and early closesseries · 2026-10-04 · 12×6Preview: a 12-point series, ending higher. Average SPY volume per minute over the final half hour of the sessionseries · 2026-10-04 · 30×2Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher.
Mutual Fund Cutoffs on Early-Close Days
Minute bars and volume per session: early closes against full sessions, Nov-Dec 2025ranking · 2026-10-04 · 2×4Preview: 2 ranked values, smallest first. SPY volume by half hour: a 1:00 p.m. half day against an ordinary Fridayseries · 2026-10-04 · 13×3Preview: a 13-point series, ending higher. Upcoming 1:00 p.m. early closes, with the hour before each oneseries · 2026-10-04 · 2×6Preview: a 2-point series, ending higher. Every upcoming closure, tagged full closure or early closeseries · 2026-10-04 · 12×6Preview: a 12-point series, ending higher.
Do Mutual Funds Trade on Market Holidays?
Scheduled early closes ahead, with the exchange close timeseries · 2026-10-04 · 2×4Preview: a 2-point series, ending higher. Upcoming US market closures and shortened sessionsseries · 2026-10-04 · 12×4Preview: a 12-point series, ending higher. Short regular sessions on the SPY tape since January 2024ranking · 2026-10-04 · 6×3Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first. 2026 sessions that reopened more than three calendar days laterseries · 2026-10-04 · 7×3Preview: a 7-point series, roughly flat.
Covered Call Closed-End Funds vs ETFs
Short-term Treasury yields by month, the reference for fund borrowing costsseries · 2026-10-04 · 36×3Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. Cash distributions over the trailing year, by declared scheduleranking · 2026-10-04 · 5×2Preview: 5 ranked values, largest first. Monthly cost of a near-the-money call, as a percent of share priceseries · 2026-10-04 · 18×3Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower.
Can You Use a Limit Order on a Mutual Fund?
One index ETF's price through a single session, in half-hour ET bucketsseries · 2026-10-04 · 13×3Preview: a 13-point series, ending higher. How far one index ETF travelled inside each recent sessionseries · 2026-10-04 · 30×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. Upcoming market closures that move a fund order's strike dateseries · 2026-10-04 · 12×6Preview: a 12-point series, ending higher. Gap between the last regular-session minute and the official closeranking · 2026-10-04 · 6×4Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first.
Can You Cancel a Mutual Fund Order? 4 pm Cutoff
Upcoming sessions where the standard 4 p.m. cutoff does not applyseries · 2026-10-04 · 12×6Preview: a 12-point series, ending higher.
Best Time of Day to Sell a Mutual Fund
Overnight gap versus the session that follows, complete yearsranking · 2026-10-04 · 5×3Preview: 5 ranked values, smallest first. How far SPY trades from its own open and close, by time of dayseries · 2026-10-04 · 13×3Preview: a 13-point series, ending higher. Average one-day move across six widely held funds, since 2021ranking · 2026-10-04 · 6×2Preview: 6 ranked values, smallest first. How big a one-day move usually is, sessions since 2016ranking · 2026-10-04 · 5×2Preview: 5 ranked values, largest first.
When Do Mutual Funds Trade? NAV Pricing at 4 pm
The same 15 sessions, summarized: the close's floor, average, and peakscalar · 2026-09-28 · 1×417.7 SPY volume share of the final 30 minutes and final minute: last 15 sessions through July 10, 2026series · 2026-09-28 · 15×3Preview: a 15-point series, ending lower. Month-end sessions vs all other sessions: SPY close concentration, January–June 2026scalar · 2026-09-28 · 1×76 The spread a fund buyer never pays: median quoted spread, July 10, 2026 regular sessionranking · 2026-09-28 · 3×3Preview: 3 ranked values, smallest first. How much of SPY's day trades at the very end: July 10, 2026 regular sessionscalar · 2026-09-28 · 1×324.6 The print NAV is struck from: AAPL's closing auction cross, July 10, 2026scalar · 2026-09-28 · 1×65.47
How Mutual Fund NAV Is Calculated: Example
Share of SPY's session volume by half hour, June 2026 averageseries · 2026-09-28 · 13×2Preview: a 13-point series, ending higher. Average move from the 11:30 a.m. ET European close to the 4:00 p.m. close, Q2 2026ranking · 2026-09-28 · 5×3Preview: 5 ranked values, largest first. One session's price path, SPY every 15 minutes on June 17, 2026series · 2026-09-28 · 27×2Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. Distance from the 10:00 a.m. ET price to the close, SPY, by monthseries · 2026-09-28 · 12×4Preview: a 12-point series, roughly flat.
When Do Index Funds Trade? ETFs vs Mutual Funds
Quoted spread on large index ETFs, five-minute slice of September 15, 2026ranking · 2026-09-26 · 6×3Preview: 6 ranked values, smallest first. Two index ETFs through one session, September 15, 2026 (percent change from the day's first print)series · 2026-09-26 · 32×3Preview: a 16-point series, roughly flat. How wide each session ran from high to low, as a percent of the closeseries · 2026-09-26 · 31×3Preview: a 16-point series, roughly flat. How many separate trades an index ETF prints per session (VOO)series · 2026-09-26 · 16×3Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher.
Do Mutual Funds Trade in the Primary Market?
Where an average session's share volume lands on the clock, September 1 to 15, 2026series · 2026-09-22 · 64×2Preview: a 16-point series, roughly flat. Average trades per session across six exchange-listed funds, August 2026ranking · 2026-09-22 · 6×2Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first. One session of prices in an exchange-listed fund, 30-minute ET bucketsseries · 2026-09-22 · 32×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. How far one exchange-listed fund's price travels within a session, August 2026series · 2026-09-22 · 21×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower.
International Fund NAV: Fair Value Pricing
The overnight and New York halves of the day, year by yearranking · 2026-08-10 · 6×3Preview: 6 ranked values, smallest first. Foreign listings during New York hours, sorted by the US large cap moveranking · 2026-08-10 · 5×4Preview: 5 ranked values, smallest first. Average move by New York half hour, two foreign listingsseries · 2026-08-10 · 25×3Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. Where the daily move lands: overnight gap versus the New York sessionranking · 2026-08-10 · 6×3Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first.
ETF Premium and Discount to NAV, Explained
How far seven ETFs travel in a regular session, first half of 2026ranking · 2026-08-06 · 7×3Preview: 7 ranked values, largest first. Median session move by month, 2026 first halfseries · 2026-08-06 · 6×4Preview: a 6-point series, roughly flat. Average minute bar range by ET clock time, second quarter 2026series · 2026-08-06 · 26×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. Median move before and after European markets close, first half of 2026ranking · 2026-08-06 · 4×3Preview: 4 ranked values, largest first.
Mutual Funds vs ETFs: What Actually Differs
Quoted bid-ask spread by fund: venue quotes, 11:00 to 13:59 ET, July 22, 2026ranking · 2026-08-02 · 7×4Preview: 7 ranked values, smallest first. The first active ETF share class: DFMC weekly closes since its March 2026 listingseries · 2026-08-02 · 20×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. How far the price travels inside a day: seven ETFs, July 2026 sessionsranking · 2026-08-02 · 7×4Preview: 7 ranked values, largest first. One session, many prices: VOO in half-hour marks, Wednesday July 22, 2026series · 2026-08-02 · 32×3Preview: a 16-point series, roughly flat.
When Do Mutual Fund Trades Settle?
Short end vs long end of the Treasury curve: monthly averages, July 2024 to June 2026series · 2026-08-01 · 24×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. Trading sessions vs calendar days, twelve months through June 2026series · 2026-08-01 · 12×4Preview: a 12-point series, ending lower. How far the S&P 500 tracker moved open to close: sessions by size band, July 2025 to June 2026ranking · 2026-08-01 · 5×3Preview: 5 ranked values, largest first. Longest breaks between US trading sessions, January to late July 2026ranking · 2026-08-01 · 10×2Preview: 10 ranked values, largest first.
How the tape behaved into the final session

How the tape behaved into the final session

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How the tape behaved into the final session — 5 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
wind_down_stagemedian_daily_range_pctmedian_dollar_volume_k
121 to 250 days out2.5370
61 to 120 days out2.1873.2
31 to 60 days out1.8383.7
11 to 30 days out1.8188.8
final 10 days2.59112.9
the exact SQL behind every number
WITH retired AS
(
    SELECT
        ticker,
        max(date) AS last_session
    FROM global_markets.stocks_daily_aggs
    WHERE date >= '2018-01-01'
      AND ticker NOT IN ('SPCX')
    GROUP BY ticker
    HAVING max(date) >= today() - 1130
       AND max(date) <  today() - 250
)
SELECT
    multiIf(
        dateDiff('day', d.date, r.last_session) <= 10,  'final 10 days',
        dateDiff('day', d.date, r.last_session) <= 30,  '11 to 30 days out',
        dateDiff('day', d.date, r.last_session) <= 60,  '31 to 60 days out',
        dateDiff('day', d.date, r.last_session) <= 120, '61 to 120 days out',
                                                        '121 to 250 days out')        AS wind_down_stage,
    round(quantileDeterministic(0.5)(
        toFloat64(d.high - d.low) / toFloat64(d.close) * 100,
        cityHash64(d.ticker, d.date)), 2)                                             AS median_daily_range_pct,
    round(quantileDeterministic(0.5)(
        toFloat64(d.volume) * toFloat64(d.close) / 1000,
        cityHash64(d.ticker, d.date)), 1)                                             AS median_dollar_volume_k
FROM global_markets.stocks_daily_aggs AS d
INNER JOIN retired AS r ON r.ticker = d.ticker
WHERE d.date >= today() - 1500
  AND d.date >  r.last_session - 250
  AND d.date <= r.last_session
  AND d.close > 0
GROUP BY wind_down_stage
ORDER BY min(dateDiff('day', d.date, r.last_session)) DESC
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