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20-session return versus SPY across a nine-fund ETF universe

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 2026-08-22, from ETF Relative Strength and Alpha Attribution.

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20-session return versus SPY across a nine-fund ETF universe — 9 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
etfreturn_pctexcess_vs_spy_pct
GLD13.369.71
XLE6.833.18
XLV6.032.38
XLK4.91.25
QQQ4.620.97
EFA4.580.93
IWM3.07-0.58
XLF1.55-2.1
XLU-5.24-8.89
Rows × columns
9 × 3
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
Licence
Strasmore terms · free, no signup
Formats
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What each column holds

Column definitions for 20-session return versus SPY across a nine-fund ETF universe, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
etf text 9 distinct values (EFA, GLD, IWM…)
return_pct number -5.24 to 13.36 percent
excess_vs_spy_pct number -8.89 to 9.71 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 bounds AS
(
    SELECT
        min(d) AS first_day,
        max(d) AS last_day
    FROM
    (
        SELECT date AS d
        FROM global_markets.stocks_daily_aggs
        WHERE ticker = 'SPY'
          AND date >= today() - 120
        GROUP BY d
        ORDER BY d DESC
        LIMIT 21
    )
)
SELECT
    sleeve.ticker                            AS etf,
    sleeve.ret_pct                           AS return_pct,
    round(sleeve.ret_pct - bench.ret_pct, 2) AS excess_vs_spy_pct
FROM
(
    SELECT
        ticker,
        round((argMax(toFloat64(close), date) / argMin(toFloat64(close), date) - 1) * 100, 2) AS ret_pct
    FROM global_markets.stocks_daily_aggs
    WHERE ticker IN ('QQQ', 'IWM', 'XLK', 'XLE', 'XLF', 'XLV', 'XLU', 'GLD', 'EFA')
      AND date >= (SELECT first_day FROM bounds)
      AND date <= (SELECT last_day FROM bounds)
    GROUP BY ticker
) AS sleeve
CROSS JOIN
(
    SELECT
        round((argMax(toFloat64(close), date) / argMin(toFloat64(close), date) - 1) * 100, 2) AS ret_pct
    FROM global_markets.stocks_daily_aggs
    WHERE ticker = 'SPY'
      AND date >= (SELECT first_day FROM bounds)
      AND date <= (SELECT last_day FROM bounds)
) AS bench
ORDER BY excess_vs_spy_pct DESC

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