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The ten worst SPY sessions, 2003-2025, plus where Lehman Monday ranks

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 2026-07-26, from Lehman's Collapse: The 2008 Tape, Replayed.

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The ten worst SPY sessions, 2003-2025, plus where Lehman Monday ranks — 11 rows by 5 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
sessionrankchange_pcttarp_vote_rankpost_lehman_2008_top10
2020-03-161-11.666
2020-03-122-9.666
2008-10-153-9.266
2008-12-014-8.966
2020-03-095-7.766
2008-09-296-766
2008-10-097-6.866
2008-11-208-6.666
2011-08-089-6.566
2008-10-0710-6.166
2008-09-1534-4.366
Rows × columns
11 × 5
Period covered
to
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds

Column definitions for The ten worst SPY sessions, 2003-2025, plus where Lehman Monday ranks, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
session date 2008-09-15 to 2020-03-16
rank number 1 to 34
change_pct number -11.6 to -4.3 percent
tarp_vote_rank number every row is 6
post_lehman_2008_top10 number every row is 6

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
        toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) AS et_date,
        argMaxIf(toFloat64(close), window_start, (toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60 + toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))) BETWEEN 570 AND 959) AS close_usd
    FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
    WHERE ticker = 'SPY'
      AND window_start >= toDateTime('2003-09-10 00:00:00') AND window_start < toDateTime('2026-01-01 00:00:00')
    GROUP BY et_date
),
changes AS (
    SELECT et_date, close_usd,
           lagInFrame(close_usd) OVER (ORDER BY et_date ASC ROWS BETWEEN 1 PRECEDING AND CURRENT ROW) AS prev_close
    FROM daily
),
ranked AS (
    SELECT
        row_number() OVER (ORDER BY (close_usd / prev_close - 1) ASC, et_date ASC) AS rank,
        toString(et_date) AS session,
        round((close_usd / prev_close - 1) * 100, 1) AS change_pct
    FROM changes
    WHERE prev_close > 0 AND isFinite(close_usd / prev_close)
),
(SELECT any(rank) FROM ranked WHERE session = '2008-09-29') AS tarp_rank_s,
(SELECT countIf(rank <= 10 AND session BETWEEN '2008-09-16' AND '2008-12-31') FROM ranked) AS post_lehman_s
SELECT
    session,
    rank,
    change_pct,
    tarp_rank_s AS tarp_vote_rank,
    post_lehman_s AS post_lehman_2008_top10
FROM ranked
WHERE rank <= 10 OR session = '2008-09-15'
ORDER BY rank

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