SPY vs QQQ, normalized return over the last 45 days

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 Free Stock Market Data API, No Key Required.

Rows × columns

33 × 3

Period covered

2026-07-08 to 2026-08-21

Computed

2026-08-22

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

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 2026-08-22, and the query below is what returned them.

SELECT day,
       round((spy / first_value(spy) OVER (ORDER BY day ASC) - 1) * 100, 2) AS spy_return_pct,
       round((qqq / first_value(qqq) OVER (ORDER BY day ASC) - 1) * 100, 2) AS qqq_return_pct
FROM (
    SELECT toDate(window_start) AS day,
           argMaxIf(close, window_start, ticker = 'SPY') AS spy,
           argMaxIf(close, window_start, ticker = 'QQQ') AS qqq
    FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
    WHERE ticker IN ('SPY', 'QQQ') AND window_start >= now() - INTERVAL 45 DAY
    GROUP BY day
)
ORDER BY day