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Symbols closing the month below $5 and below $1, past two years

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 2026-08-22, from Non-Marginable Securities: Reg T vs House.

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Symbols closing the month below $5 and below $1, past two years — 24 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
monthunder_5_countunder_1_count
2024-081869714
2024-091862712
2024-101832682
2024-111778650
2024-121795626
2025-011772607
2025-021845623
2025-031956672
2025-041955652
2025-051903615
2025-061869597
2025-071867568
2025-081833569
2025-091791537
2025-101822542
2025-111908606
2025-121955693
2026-011931674
2026-022001741
2026-032128808
2026-042036797
2026-052056800
2026-062149866
2026-072281968
Rows × columns
24 × 3
Period covered
to
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
Licence
Strasmore terms · free, no signup
Formats
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What each column holds

Column definitions for Symbols closing the month below $5 and below $1, past two years, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
month date 2024-08 to 2026-07
under_5_count number 1,772 to 2,281 count
under_1_count number 537 to 968 count

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
    formatDateTime(m, '%Y-%m')  AS month,
    countIf(month_close < 5)    AS under_5_count,
    countIf(month_close < 1)    AS under_1_count
FROM
(
    SELECT
        toStartOfMonth(date) AS m,
        ticker,
        argMax(close, date)  AS month_close
    FROM global_markets.stocks_daily_aggs
    WHERE date >= toStartOfMonth(today() - 730)
      AND date <  toStartOfMonth(today())
      AND volume > 0
      AND close > 0
    GROUP BY m, ticker
)
GROUP BY m
ORDER BY m

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