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march_2020_sessions

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 2026-09-18, from market-wide-circuit-breakers-explained.

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march_2020_sessions — 22 rows by 6 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
session_datesession_labelopen_vs_prior_close_pctlow_vs_prior_close_pctclose_vs_prior_close_pctbreaker_line
2020-03-02March 20.66-0.614.33
2020-03-03March 30.13-3.73-2.86
2020-03-04March 41.961.034.2
2020-03-05March 5-2.52-4.11-3.32
2020-03-06March 6-3.08-4.04-1.65
2020-03-09March 9-7.45-8.07-7.81Level 1 line crossed
2020-03-10March 103.8-0.275.17
2020-03-11March 11-2.68-6.08-4.87
2020-03-12March 12-6.69-9.72-9.57Level 1 line crossed
2020-03-13March 136.040.598.55
2020-03-16March 16-10.45-11.87-10.94Level 1 line crossed
2020-03-17March 172.16-1.165.4
2020-03-18March 18-6.55-9.8-5.06Level 1 line crossed
2020-03-19March 19-0.31-3.240.21
2020-03-20March 200.84-4.99-4.87
2020-03-23March 23-0.27-4.61-2.56
2020-03-24March 245.144.879.06
2020-03-25March 250.71-1.41.5
2020-03-26March 261.110.925.84
2020-03-27March 27-3.04-3.89-2.98
2020-03-30March 300.90.043.25
2020-03-31March 31-0.42-2.08-1.49
Rows × columns
22 × 6
Period covered
to
Computed
Completeness
Some fields are partly empty — see the columns below
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 march_2020_sessions, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
session_date date 2020-03-02 to 2020-03-31
session_label text 22 distinct values (March 10, March 11, March 12…)
open_vs_prior_close_pct number -10.45 to 6.04 percent
low_vs_prior_close_pct number -11.87 to 4.87 percent
close_vs_prior_close_pct number -10.94 to 9.06 percent
breaker_line text 1 distinct value (Level 1 line crossed) 4 of 22 rows populated

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
SELECT
    toString(d)                                            AS session_date,
    concat(monthName(d), ' ', toString(toDayOfMonth(d)))   AS session_label,
    round((open_px / prev_close_px - 1) * 100, 2)          AS open_vs_prior_close_pct,
    round((low_px / prev_close_px - 1) * 100, 2)           AS low_vs_prior_close_pct,
    round((close_px / prev_close_px - 1) * 100, 2)         AS close_vs_prior_close_pct,
    multiIf((1 - low_px / prev_close_px) * 100 >= 20, 'Level 3 line crossed',
            (1 - low_px / prev_close_px) * 100 >= 13, 'Level 2 line crossed',
            (1 - low_px / prev_close_px) * 100 >= 7,  'Level 1 line crossed',
            '')                                            AS breaker_line
FROM
(
    SELECT
        d,
        open_px,
        low_px,
        close_px,
        lagInFrame(close_px, 1) OVER (ORDER BY d ROWS BETWEEN UNBOUNDED PRECEDING AND CURRENT ROW) AS prev_close_px
    FROM
    (
        SELECT
            date                        AS d,
            toFloat64(max(open))        AS open_px,
            toFloat64(min(low))         AS low_px,
            toFloat64(max(close))       AS close_px
        FROM global_markets.stocks_daily_aggs
        WHERE ticker = 'SPY'
          AND date BETWEEN toDate('2020-02-24') AND toDate('2020-03-31')
        GROUP BY date
    )
)
WHERE d >= toDate('2020-03-02')
ORDER BY d

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