SPY month by month in H1 2026: regular-hours open-to-close return per month

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 2026-08-11, from Macro Picture Entering H2 2026, With Receipts.

Rows × columns

6 × 4

Period covered

2026-01-01 to 2026-06-01

Computed

2026-08-11

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 2026-08-11, and the query below is what returned them.

WITH bars AS (
    SELECT toStartOfMonth(toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))) AS m,
           window_start, open, close
    FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
    WHERE ticker = 'SPY'
      AND window_start >= toDateTime('2026-01-01 00:00:00')
      AND window_start < toDateTime('2026-07-01 00:00:00')
      AND (toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60 + toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))) BETWEEN 570 AND 959
)
SELECT toString(m) AS period_start,
       round(argMin(toFloat64(open), window_start), 2) AS month_open,
       round(argMax(toFloat64(close), window_start), 2) AS month_close,
       round((argMax(toFloat64(close), window_start) / argMin(toFloat64(open), window_start) - 1) * 100, 2) AS spy_return_pct
FROM bars
GROUP BY m
ORDER BY m