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SPY closes, March 23-26, 2020: the three-day burst

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 2026-07-26, from March 24, 2020: The Day the Market Turned.

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SPY closes, March 23-26, 2020: the three-day burst — 4 rows by 4 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
sessionclose_usdchange_pctshares_m
2020-03-23222.51-2.8322.4
2020-03-24243.599.5232.4
2020-03-25246.771.3297.4
2020-03-26261.395.9253.8
Rows × columns
4 × 4
Period covered
to
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
Licence
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Formats
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What each column holds

Column definitions for SPY closes, March 23-26, 2020: the three-day burst, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
session date 2020-03-23 to 2020-03-26
close_usd number 222.51 to 261.39 US dollars
change_pct number -2.8 to 9.5 percent
shares_m number 232.4 to 322.4 count

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
    toString(et_date) AS session,
    close_usd,
    round(if(prev_close = 0, NULL, (close_usd / prev_close - 1) * 100), 1) AS change_pct,
    shares_m
FROM (
    SELECT et_date, close_usd, shares_m,
           lagInFrame(close_usd) OVER (ORDER BY et_date ASC ROWS BETWEEN 1 PRECEDING AND CURRENT ROW) AS prev_close
    FROM (
        SELECT
            toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) AS et_date,
            round(argMaxIf(toFloat64(close), window_start, (toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60 + toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))) BETWEEN 570 AND 959), 2) AS close_usd,
            round(toFloat64(sum(volume)) / 1e6, 1) AS shares_m
        FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
        WHERE ticker = 'SPY'
          AND window_start >= toDateTime('2020-03-20 00:00:00') AND window_start < toDateTime('2020-03-26 23:59:00')
        GROUP BY et_date
    )
)
WHERE et_date >= toDate('2020-03-23') AND et_date <= toDate('2020-03-26')
ORDER BY et_date

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