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Measured Sharpe dispersion across non-overlapping SPY windows, 2006 to 2025

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 2026-08-14, from Bootstrapping Backtest Confidence Bands.

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Measured Sharpe dispersion across non-overlapping SPY windows, 2006 to 2025 — 5 rows by 6 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
horizonblock_countsharpe_p05sharpe_p50sharpe_p95sharpe_band_width
21 sessions238-3.371.476.9710.34
63 sessions78-1.821.274.186
126 sessions38-11.162.873.86
252 sessions18-0.70.922.222.92
504 sessions8-0.090.541.581.67
Rows × columns
5 × 6
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds

Column definitions for Measured Sharpe dispersion across non-overlapping SPY windows, 2006 to 2025, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
horizon text 5 distinct values (126 sessions, 21 sessions, 252 sessions…)
block_count number 8 to 238 count
sharpe_p05 number -3.37 to -0.09
sharpe_p50 number 0.54 to 1.47
sharpe_p95 number 1.58 to 6.97
sharpe_band_width number 1.67 to 10.34

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
WITH daily AS
(
    SELECT
        date,
        toFloat64(close) / nullIf(lagInFrame(toFloat64(close), 1)
            OVER (ORDER BY date ROWS BETWEEN 1 PRECEDING AND CURRENT ROW), 0) - 1 AS ret
    FROM global_markets.stocks_daily_aggs
    WHERE ticker = 'SPY'
      AND date >= '2005-12-01'
      AND date <  '2026-01-01'
),
indexed AS
(
    SELECT
        ret,
        row_number() OVER (ORDER BY date) AS i
    FROM daily
    WHERE date >= '2006-01-01'
      AND ret IS NOT NULL
),
blocks AS
(
    SELECT
        w,
        intDiv(i, w)                                            AS blk,
        count()                                                 AS n,
        avg(ret) / nullIf(stddevSamp(ret), 0) * sqrt(252)        AS sharpe
    FROM indexed
    CROSS JOIN (SELECT arrayJoin([21, 63, 126, 252, 504]) AS w) AS ws
    GROUP BY w, blk
    HAVING n = w
)
SELECT
    concat(toString(w), ' sessions')                          AS horizon,
    count()                                                   AS block_count,
    round(quantileDeterministic(0.05)(sharpe, blk), 2)        AS sharpe_p05,
    round(quantileDeterministic(0.50)(sharpe, blk), 2)        AS sharpe_p50,
    round(quantileDeterministic(0.95)(sharpe, blk), 2)        AS sharpe_p95,
    round(quantileDeterministic(0.95)(sharpe, blk)
        - quantileDeterministic(0.05)(sharpe, blk), 2)        AS sharpe_band_width
FROM blocks
WHERE sharpe IS NOT NULL
GROUP BY w
ORDER BY w

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