Average one-day move across six widely held funds, since 2021
Answered against 22 years of US equities and 12 years of US options data and published with the query that produced it. This result is stored as of 2026-10-04, from Best Time of Day to Sell a Mutual Fund.
| symbol | avg_daily_move_pct |
|---|---|
| SPY | 0.747 |
| TLT | 0.756 |
| EFA | 0.762 |
| GLD | 0.826 |
| QQQ | 1.031 |
| IWM | 1.087 |
- Rows × columns
- 6 × 2
- Computed
- Completeness
- No missing values
- Source
- US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
- Licence
- Strasmore terms · free, no signup
What each column holds
| Column | Type | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
symbol |
text | 6 distinct values (EFA, GLD, IWM…) | |
avg_daily_move_pct |
number | 0.747 to 1.087 | percent |
Computed from Strasmore's warehouse of US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data. Equity prices are delayed; options greeks and implied volatility are end-of-day. This result is stored, not recomputed on load — it is exactly the numbers that were returned on , and the query below is what returned them.
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SELECT
symbol,
round(avg(move_pct), 3) AS avg_daily_move_pct
FROM
(
SELECT
symbol,
abs(close_px / prior_close - 1) * 100 AS move_pct
FROM
(
SELECT
ticker AS symbol,
date,
max(toFloat64(close)) AS close_px,
lagInFrame(max(toFloat64(close)))
OVER (PARTITION BY ticker ORDER BY date ASC ROWS BETWEEN 1 PRECEDING AND CURRENT ROW) AS prior_close
FROM global_markets.stocks_daily_aggs
WHERE ticker IN ('SPY', 'QQQ', 'IWM', 'EFA', 'TLT', 'GLD')
AND date >= '2021-01-01'
AND date < today() - 2
GROUP BY ticker, date
)
WHERE prior_close > 0
)
GROUP BY symbol
ORDER BY avg_daily_move_pct ASC
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