Share of each fund's daily variation explained by SPY, trailing two years

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WITH daily AS
(
    SELECT
        ticker,
        date,
        toFloat64(close) AS px,
        lagInFrame(toFloat64(close)) OVER (PARTITION BY ticker ORDER BY date ROWS BETWEEN 1 PRECEDING AND CURRENT ROW) AS prev_px
    FROM global_markets.stocks_daily_aggs
    WHERE ticker IN ('SPY', 'QQQ', 'IWM', 'XLK', 'XLE', 'XLF', 'XLV', 'XLU', 'GLD', 'EFA')
      AND date >= today() - 760
)
SELECT
    sleeve.ticker                                                AS etf,
    round(pow(corr(sleeve.fund_ret, bench.spy_ret), 2) * 100, 1) AS r_squared_vs_spy_pct
FROM
(
    SELECT ticker, date, px / prev_px - 1 AS fund_ret
    FROM daily
    WHERE prev_px > 0
      AND ticker != 'SPY'
) AS sleeve
INNER JOIN
(
    SELECT date, px / prev_px - 1 AS spy_ret
    FROM daily
    WHERE prev_px > 0
      AND ticker = 'SPY'
) AS bench USING (date)
GROUP BY sleeve.ticker
ORDER BY r_squared_vs_spy_pct DESC