Record closes per year, SPY (price basis, first four years of the file excluded)
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 2026-11-01, from Investing at All-Time Highs: What the Data Says.
| year | closes_counted | record_closes | record_share_pct | series_start_label | counting_from_label | last_session_label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 79 | 2 | 2.5 | Sep 10, 2003 | Sep 10, 2007 | Dec 31, 2007 |
| 2008 | 253 | 0 | 0 | Sep 10, 2003 | Sep 10, 2007 | Dec 31, 2008 |
| 2009 | 252 | 0 | 0 | Sep 10, 2003 | Sep 10, 2007 | Dec 31, 2009 |
| 2010 | 252 | 0 | 0 | Sep 10, 2003 | Sep 10, 2007 | Dec 31, 2010 |
| 2011 | 252 | 0 | 0 | Sep 10, 2003 | Sep 10, 2007 | Dec 30, 2011 |
| 2012 | 250 | 0 | 0 | Sep 10, 2003 | Sep 10, 2007 | Dec 31, 2012 |
| 2013 | 252 | 48 | 19 | Sep 10, 2003 | Sep 10, 2007 | Dec 31, 2013 |
| 2014 | 252 | 52 | 20.6 | Sep 10, 2003 | Sep 10, 2007 | Dec 31, 2014 |
| 2015 | 252 | 11 | 4.4 | Sep 10, 2003 | Sep 10, 2007 | Dec 31, 2015 |
| 2016 | 252 | 18 | 7.1 | Sep 10, 2003 | Sep 10, 2007 | Dec 30, 2016 |
| 2017 | 251 | 54 | 21.5 | Sep 10, 2003 | Sep 10, 2007 | Dec 29, 2017 |
| 2018 | 251 | 19 | 7.6 | Sep 10, 2003 | Sep 10, 2007 | Dec 31, 2018 |
| 2019 | 252 | 34 | 13.5 | Sep 10, 2003 | Sep 10, 2007 | Dec 31, 2019 |
| 2020 | 253 | 33 | 13 | Sep 10, 2003 | Sep 10, 2007 | Dec 31, 2020 |
| 2021 | 252 | 71 | 28.2 | Sep 10, 2003 | Sep 10, 2007 | Dec 31, 2021 |
| 2022 | 251 | 1 | 0.4 | Sep 10, 2003 | Sep 10, 2007 | Dec 30, 2022 |
| 2023 | 250 | 0 | 0 | Sep 10, 2003 | Sep 10, 2007 | Dec 29, 2023 |
| 2024 | 252 | 58 | 23 | Sep 10, 2003 | Sep 10, 2007 | Dec 31, 2024 |
| 2025 | 250 | 40 | 16 | Sep 10, 2003 | Sep 10, 2007 | Dec 31, 2025 |
| 2026 | 209 | 27 | 12.9 | Sep 10, 2003 | Sep 10, 2007 | Oct 30, 2026 |
- Rows × columns
- 20 × 7
- Computed
- Completeness
- No missing values
- Source
- US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
- Licence
- Strasmore terms · free, no signup
What each column holds
| Column | Type | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
year |
number | 2,007 to 2,026 | |
closes_counted |
number | 79 to 253 | |
record_closes |
number | 0 to 71 | |
record_share_pct |
number | 0 to 28.2 | percent |
series_start_label |
text | 1 distinct value (Sep 10, 2003) | |
counting_from_label |
text | 1 distinct value (Sep 10, 2007) | |
last_session_label |
text | 20 distinct values (Dec 29, 2017, Dec 29, 2023, Dec 30, 2011…) |
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.
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WITH
daily AS
(
SELECT
date,
toFloat64(argMax(close, _ingest_time)) AS close
FROM global_markets.stocks_daily_aggs
WHERE ticker = 'SPY'
GROUP BY date
),
flagged AS
(
SELECT
date,
close,
close >= max(close) OVER (ORDER BY date ROWS BETWEEN UNBOUNDED PRECEDING AND CURRENT ROW) AS is_record,
min(date) OVER () AS series_start
FROM daily
)
SELECT
toYear(date) AS year,
count() AS closes_counted,
countIf(is_record = 1) AS record_closes,
round(100 * countIf(is_record = 1) / count(), 1) AS record_share_pct,
any(formatDateTime(series_start, '%b %e, %Y')) AS series_start_label,
any(formatDateTime(addYears(series_start, 4), '%b %e, %Y')) AS counting_from_label,
formatDateTime(max(date), '%b %e, %Y') AS last_session_label
FROM flagged
WHERE date >= addYears(series_start, 4)
GROUP BY year
ORDER BY year
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