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Compounding the index against the buffered payoff, net of a 0.79% fee

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 2026-08-12, from How Buffer ETFs Work: Caps and Resets.

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Compounding the index against the buffered payoff, net of a 0.79% fee — 12 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
outcome_yearindex_cum_pctfund_net_cum_pct
201412.411.5
201511.510.6
20162422
201746.939.2
201836.638.1
201975.957.6
2020102.479.8
2021160.7105.2
2022108.881.4
2023160.6106.9
2024223.2136.1
2025276.8169.3
Rows × columns
12 × 3
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds

Column definitions for Compounding the index against the buffered payoff, net of a 0.79% fee, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
outcome_year text 12 distinct values (2014, 2015, 2016…)
index_cum_pct number 11.5 to 276.8 percent
fund_net_cum_pct number 10.6 to 169.3 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.

the exact SQL behind every number
WITH yearly AS
(
    SELECT
        toString(toYear(date)) AS outcome_year,
        round((toFloat64(argMax(close, date)) / toFloat64(argMin(close, date)) - 1) * 100, 1) AS index_return_pct
    FROM global_markets.stocks_daily_aggs
    WHERE ticker = 'SPY'
      AND date >= '2014-01-01'
      AND date <  '2026-01-01'
    GROUP BY toYear(date)
),
outcomes AS
(
    SELECT
        outcome_year,
        1.0 + (index_return_pct / 100) AS index_growth,
        (1.0 + (multiIf(index_return_pct >  15.0, 15.0,
                        index_return_pct >=  0.0, index_return_pct,
                        index_return_pct >= -9.0, 0.0,
                        index_return_pct + 9.0) / 100)) * (1.0 - 0.0079) AS fund_growth
    FROM yearly
)
SELECT
    outcome_year,
    round((exp(sum(log(index_growth)) OVER (ORDER BY outcome_year ROWS BETWEEN UNBOUNDED PRECEDING AND CURRENT ROW)) - 1) * 100, 1) AS index_cum_pct,
    round((exp(sum(log(fund_growth))  OVER (ORDER BY outcome_year ROWS BETWEEN UNBOUNDED PRECEDING AND CURRENT ROW)) - 1) * 100, 1) AS fund_net_cum_pct
FROM outcomes
ORDER BY outcome_year

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