S&P 500 worst intra-year drawdown vs the year's price return, since 2016

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 2026-07-16, from How Markets Recover From Crashes.

Rows × columns

11 × 3

Computed

2026-07-16

Completeness

No missing values

Source

US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data

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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 2026-07-16, and the query below is what returned them.

WITH d AS (
    SELECT toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) AS dt,
           argMax(toFloat64(close), toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) AS c
    FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
    WHERE ticker = 'SPY' AND window_start >= '2016-01-01'
      AND (toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60
           + toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))) BETWEEN 570 AND 959
    GROUP BY dt
),
dd AS (
    SELECT dt, toYear(dt) AS yr, c,
           (c / max(c) OVER (ORDER BY dt ROWS BETWEEN UNBOUNDED PRECEDING AND CURRENT ROW) - 1) * 100 AS ddpct
    FROM d
)
SELECT toString(yr) AS year,
       round(min(ddpct), 1) AS worst_drawdown_pct,
       round((argMax(c, dt) / argMin(c, dt) - 1) * 100, 1) AS year_return_pct
FROM dd GROUP BY yr ORDER BY yr