Four major lows: SPY forward returns at three and twelve months

Name: Four major lows: SPY forward returns at three and twelve months
Creator: Strasmore
Published: 2026-07-26
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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 March 9, 2009: The Bottom, On the Tape.

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Four major lows: SPY forward returns at three and twelve months — 4 rows by 4 columns, computed 2026-07-26 from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
bottom_session	bottom_close	plus_3mo_pct	plus_1yr_pct
2009-03-09	68.07	38.5	68.1
2011-10-03	109.92	16.1	31.4
2018-12-24	234.37	19.1	37.1
2020-03-23	222.51	39.6	75.1

Rows × columns: 4 × 4
Period covered: 2009-03-09 to 2020-03-23
Computed: 2026-07-26
Completeness: No missing values
Source: US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
Licence: Strasmore terms · free, no signup
Formats: JSON · CSV · the SQL below

What each column holds

Column definitions for Four major lows: SPY forward returns at three and twelve months, derived from the stored result.
Column	Type	Range	Notes
`bottom_session`	date	2009-03-09 to 2020-03-23
`bottom_close`	number	68.07 to 234.37	US dollars
`plus_3mo_pct`	number	16.1 to 39.6	percent
`plus_1yr_pct`	number	31.4 to 75.1	percent

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 2026-07-26, and the query below is what returned them.

Run it yourself

This is the exact query behind the result above. Change a ticker, a date or a column and run it against the warehouse — no account, no key. The no-signup tier is smaller than the one this page was computed on; a query that reaches past it comes back saying which plan runs it.

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('2009-03-09 04:00:00') AND window_start < toDateTime('2010-03-17 00:00:00'))
        OR (window_start >= toDateTime('2011-10-03 04:00:00') AND window_start < toDateTime('2012-10-10 00:00:00'))
        OR (window_start >= toDateTime('2018-12-24 04:00:00') AND window_start < toDateTime('2019-12-31 00:00:00'))
        OR (window_start >= toDateTime('2020-03-23 04:00:00') AND window_start < toDateTime('2021-03-30 00:00:00')))
    GROUP BY et_date
)
SELECT
    bottom_session,
    round(argMin(close_usd, et_date), 2) AS bottom_close,
    round((argMinIf(close_usd, et_date, et_date >= toDate(bottom_session) + 91) / argMin(close_usd, et_date) - 1) * 100, 1) AS plus_3mo_pct,
    round((argMinIf(close_usd, et_date, et_date >= toDate(bottom_session) + 365) / argMin(close_usd, et_date) - 1) * 100, 1) AS plus_1yr_pct
FROM (
    SELECT
        multiIf(et_date >= toDate('2020-03-23'), '2020-03-23',
                et_date >= toDate('2018-12-24'), '2018-12-24',
                et_date >= toDate('2011-10-03'), '2011-10-03',
                '2009-03-09') AS bottom_session,
        et_date,
        close_usd
    FROM daily
)
GROUP BY bottom_session
ORDER BY bottom_session

SQL to run

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('2009-03-09 04:00:00') AND window_start < toDateTime('2010-03-17 00:00:00'))
        OR (window_start >= toDateTime('2011-10-03 04:00:00') AND window_start < toDateTime('2012-10-10 00:00:00'))
        OR (window_start >= toDateTime('2018-12-24 04:00:00') AND window_start < toDateTime('2019-12-31 00:00:00'))
        OR (window_start >= toDateTime('2020-03-23 04:00:00') AND window_start < toDateTime('2021-03-30 00:00:00')))
    GROUP BY et_date
)
SELECT
    bottom_session,
    round(argMin(close_usd, et_date), 2) AS bottom_close,
    round((argMinIf(close_usd, et_date, et_date >= toDate(bottom_session) + 91) / argMin(close_usd, et_date) - 1) * 100, 1) AS plus_3mo_pct,
    round((argMinIf(close_usd, et_date, et_date >= toDate(bottom_session) + 365) / argMin(close_usd, et_date) - 1) * 100, 1) AS plus_1yr_pct
FROM (
    SELECT
        multiIf(et_date >= toDate('2020-03-23'), '2020-03-23',
                et_date >= toDate('2018-12-24'), '2018-12-24',
                et_date >= toDate('2011-10-03'), '2011-10-03',
                '2009-03-09') AS bottom_session,
        et_date,
        close_usd
    FROM daily
)
GROUP BY bottom_session
ORDER BY bottom_session

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