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hourly change in open contracts

Signed fractional change in open interest measured in contracts over the trailing hour: the latest contract count divided by the count one hour earlier, minus one. -0.5 means half the open contracts were closed in the hour; +1 means open interest doubled. Contracts, not dollars, so a price move alone cannot manufacture a change. Absent without two open-interest reads an hour apart, and on days before raw open-interest polling exists in the record.

Observed
measured over the trailing hour
Unit
signed_fraction
Valid range
-1 to 1000

Example: A recorded value of -0.2 signed_fraction can be used in the editable condition below.

Use in Research
Technical details

Field ID

feature.oi_contract_change_1h

Valid query operators

at least, at most, between

Window operators: lowest, highest, average, latest or change in, over a trailing window.

Editable query preset

This preset is a starting point, not a recommendation. Edit it before running the search.

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  "schema_version": "research_query.v2",
  "normalization_version": "archive_normalization.v1",
  "feature_version": "feature_defs.v1",
  "target": "record_occurrences",
  "where": {
    "all": [
      [
        "feature.oi_contract_change_1h",
        "lte",
        -0.2
      ],
      [
        "times.anchor_time",
        "gte",
        "2025-07-15T00:00:00.000Z"
      ]
    ]
  },
  "sort": [
    "times.anchor_time",
    "desc"
  ],
  "page": {
    "limit": 5,
    "cursor": null
  }
}

The search reports how often the record held this condition and what followed. It does not decide whether an idea works.

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