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Biggest stock gainers of 2026: top ten year to date among heavily traded names

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 2026-08-25, from Biggest Stock Gainers & Losers of 2026.

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Biggest stock gainers of 2026: top ten year to date among heavily traded names — 10 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
tickerytd_return_pctavg_daily_dollar_m
SNDK542.119922
MRNA486.52422
AEHR413.3280
TWST348.5179
AXTI327.4898
TXG281.5159
MXL272.5152
DELL240.72342
AAOI236.41732
AMLX221.7107
Rows × columns
10 × 3
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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Column definitions for Biggest stock gainers of 2026: top ten year to date among heavily traded names, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
ticker text 10 distinct values (AAOI, AEHR, AMLX…)
ytd_return_pct number 221.7 to 542.1 percent
avg_daily_dollar_m number 107 to 19,922

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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WITH complete AS (
    SELECT toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) AS d
    FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
    WHERE ticker = 'SPY'
      AND window_start >= toDateTime('2026-01-01 00:00:00')
      AND toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60 + toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) >= 570
      AND toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60 + toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) < 960
    GROUP BY d
    HAVING count() >= 380
),
universe AS (
    SELECT ticker,
           sum(toFloat64(close) * toFloat64(volume)) / uniqExact(toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))) AS adv
    FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
    WHERE window_start >= now() - INTERVAL 21 DAY
      AND toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) >= today() - 20
      AND toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) IN (SELECT d FROM complete)
      AND toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60 + toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) >= 570
      AND toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60 + toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) < 960
    GROUP BY ticker
    HAVING adv >= 100000000
),
edges AS (
    SELECT ticker,
        argMinIf(toFloat64(open), toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'), toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) = (SELECT min(d) FROM complete)) AS year_open,
        argMaxIf(toFloat64(close), toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'), toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) = (SELECT max(d) FROM complete)) AS latest_close,
        countIf(toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) = (SELECT min(d) FROM complete)) AS bars_open,
        countIf(toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) = (SELECT max(d) FROM complete)) AS bars_close
    FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
    WHERE ((window_start >= toDateTime('2026-01-01 00:00:00') AND window_start < toDateTime('2026-01-10 00:00:00'))
        OR (window_start >= now() - INTERVAL 8 DAY))
      AND toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60 + toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) >= 570
      AND toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60 + toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) < 960
      AND ticker NOT IN ('SPCX')
      AND ticker NOT IN ('KORU','SOXL','SOXS','SOXY','TQQQ','SQQQ','QQQU','SPXL','SPXS','UPRO','SPXU','SPYU','LABU','LABD','FAS','FAZ','TNA','TZA','YINN','YANG','UDOW','SDOW','BOIL','KOLD','UCO','SCO','USD','SSO','SDS','QLD','QID','ERX','ERY','DRN','DRV','CURE','MUU','SNXX','UVXY','SVXY','UVIX','SVIX','BULZ','WEBL','WEBS','DPST','DRIP','GUSH','AGQ','ZSL','GDXU','GDXD','FNGU','FNGD','DUST','JNUG','JDST','NUGT','BITX','BITU','SBIT','ETHU','ETHT','NVDL','NVDS','NVD','NVDX','NVDU','NVDD','NVDQ','TSLL','TSLQ','TSLZ','TSLR','TSLT','TSLS','TSDD','AAPU','AAPD','MSFU','MSFD','GGLL','GGLS','AMZU','AMZD','METU','METD','PLTU','PLTD','SMCX','SMCZ','CONL','CONI','MSTX','MSTU','MSTZ','BRKU','AMDL','AMUU','AMDD','ELIL','ELIS','HOOX','AVGX','AVGU','TSMX','TSMZ','MULL')
      AND ticker NOT IN (SELECT ticker FROM global_markets.stocks_splits
                         WHERE execution_date BETWEEN toDate('2026-01-01') AND today())
    GROUP BY ticker
    HAVING bars_open >= 100 AND bars_close >= 100
)
SELECT e.ticker AS ticker,
    round((e.latest_close / e.year_open - 1) * 100, 1) AS ytd_return_pct,
    round(u.adv / 1e6, 0) AS avg_daily_dollar_m
FROM edges AS e
INNER JOIN universe AS u ON e.ticker = u.ticker
WHERE e.year_open >= 10
ORDER BY (e.latest_close / e.year_open) DESC
LIMIT 10

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