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Large single-session SPY declines by calendar year

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 2026-10-09, from Options Approval Denied? What to Do Next.

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Large single-session SPY declines by calendar year — 11 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
yearsessions_down_2pctworst_day_pct
202024-10.94
202223-4.35
201814-4.18
20258-5.85
20216-2.44
20165-3.64
20195-3.01
20244-2.98
20262-2.58
20231-2.01
20170-1.77
Rows × columns
11 × 3
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds

Column definitions for Large single-session SPY declines by calendar year, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
year number 2,016 to 2,026
sessions_down_2pct number 0 to 24
worst_day_pct number -10.94 to -1.77 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 , and the query below is what returned them.

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SELECT
    toYear(session_date)   AS year,
    countIf(ret_pct <= -2) AS sessions_down_2pct,
    round(min(ret_pct), 2) AS worst_day_pct
FROM
(
    SELECT
        session_date,
        c,
        lagInFrame(c) OVER (ORDER BY session_date ASC ROWS BETWEEN 1 PRECEDING AND CURRENT ROW) AS prev_c,
        if(prev_c > 0, round(100 * (c / prev_c - 1), 2), NULL)                                  AS ret_pct
    FROM
    (
        SELECT
            date                   AS session_date,
            toFloat64(max(close))  AS c
        FROM global_markets.stocks_daily_aggs
        WHERE ticker = 'SPY'
          AND date >= '2016-01-01'
          AND date < today()
        GROUP BY date
    )
)
WHERE ret_pct IS NOT NULL
GROUP BY year
ORDER BY sessions_down_2pct DESC, year ASC
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