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peak_multiple

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 2026-09-12, from biggest-short-squeezes-in-history.

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peak_multiple — 5 rows by 4 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
episodepeak_multipleprice_pathsource
GameStop, Jan 202125.6$18.84 close Dec 31, 2020 to $483 high Jan 28, 2021NYSE prints
KaloBios, Nov 201521.7$2.07 close Nov 18 to $45 high Nov 23, 2015 (102x from the $0.44 low of Nov 16)Nasdaq prints
Northern Pacific, May 190110about $100 in early May to the $1,000 print of May 9, 1901NYSE record, contemporaneous press
Volkswagen, Oct 20084.8€211 close Oct 24 to €1,005 high Oct 28, 2008Xetra prints, FT and Reuters reporting
LME nickel, Mar 20223.5$29,000 a tonne close Mar 4 to $101,365 on Mar 8, 2022LME notices, Reuters reporting
Rows × columns
5 × 4
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
Licence
Strasmore terms · free, no signup
Formats
JSON · CSV · the SQL below

What each column holds

Column definitions for peak_multiple, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
episode text 5 distinct values
peak_multiple number 3.5 to 25.6
price_path text 5 distinct values
source text 5 distinct values

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.

the exact SQL behind every number 
SELECT episode, peak_multiple, price_path, source
FROM (
    SELECT 'GameStop, Jan 2021' AS episode, 25.6 AS peak_multiple, '$18.84 close Dec 31, 2020 to $483 high Jan 28, 2021' AS price_path, 'NYSE prints' AS source
    UNION ALL
    SELECT 'KaloBios, Nov 2015', 21.7, '$2.07 close Nov 18 to $45 high Nov 23, 2015 (102x from the $0.44 low of Nov 16)', 'Nasdaq prints'
    UNION ALL
    SELECT 'Northern Pacific, May 1901', 10.0, 'about $100 in early May to the $1,000 print of May 9, 1901', 'NYSE record, contemporaneous press'
    UNION ALL
    SELECT 'Volkswagen, Oct 2008', 4.8, '€211 close Oct 24 to €1,005 high Oct 28, 2008', 'Xetra prints, FT and Reuters reporting'
    UNION ALL
    SELECT 'LME nickel, Mar 2022', 3.5, '$29,000 a tonne close Mar 4 to $101,365 on Mar 8, 2022', 'LME notices, Reuters reporting'
) AS ranked
ORDER BY peak_multiple DESC

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