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Annualized volatility and worst single session, trailing two years

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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Annualized volatility and worst single session, trailing two years — 10 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
etfannual_vol_pctworst_day_pct
XLK27.6-6.82
GLD23.5-10.27
XLE23.4-9.2
QQQ22.3-6.21
IWM21.7-6.42
XLF17.6-7.32
SPY16.8-5.85
EFA16.7-6.6
XLV16.2-5.48
XLU15.9-5.56
Rows × columns
10 × 3
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 Annualized volatility and worst single session, trailing two years, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
etf text 10 distinct values (EFA, GLD, IWM…)
annual_vol_pct number 15.9 to 27.6 percent
worst_day_pct number -10.27 to -5.48 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 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
    ticker                                                   AS etf,
    round(stddevSamp(px / prev_px - 1) * sqrt(252) * 100, 1) AS annual_vol_pct,
    round(min(px / prev_px - 1) * 100, 2)                    AS worst_day_pct
FROM daily
WHERE prev_px > 0
GROUP BY ticker
ORDER BY annual_vol_pct DESC

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