Hedge ratio refitted each calendar year, two sector pairs

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 2026-08-13, from Pairs Trading and Cointegration Explained.

Rows × columns

7 × 3

Computed

2026-08-13

Completeness

No missing values

Source

US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data

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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 2026-08-13, and the query below is what returned them.

WITH daily AS (
    SELECT
        date,
        anyIf(toFloat64(close), ticker = 'PEP') AS pep,
        anyIf(toFloat64(close), ticker = 'KO')  AS ko,
        anyIf(toFloat64(close), ticker = 'LOW') AS lowes,
        anyIf(toFloat64(close), ticker = 'HD')  AS hd
    FROM global_markets.stocks_daily_aggs
    WHERE ticker IN ('KO', 'PEP', 'HD', 'LOW')
      AND date BETWEEN '2019-01-01' AND '2025-12-31'
    GROUP BY date
    HAVING ko > 0 AND pep > 0 AND hd > 0 AND lowes > 0
)
SELECT
    toYear(date)                                  AS year,
    round(covarSamp(pep, ko) / varSamp(ko), 3)    AS pep_on_ko_beta,
    round(covarSamp(lowes, hd) / varSamp(hd), 3)  AS lowes_on_hd_beta
FROM daily
GROUP BY year
ORDER BY year