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Share price indexed to 100, three covered call ETFs, monthly

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 2026-09-20, from Return of Capital in ETF Distributions.

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Share price indexed to 100, three covered call ETFs, monthly — 59 rows by 4 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
monthqyld_price_indexxyld_price_indexryld_price_index
2021-09100100100
2021-10103.5103.8101.4
2021-11102101.597.5
2021-12100.8104.398.2
2022-0194.2100.691.7
2022-0291.398.893.3
2022-0395.110295.7
2022-0487.695.988.9
2022-0581.891.585.7
2022-0679.48882.5
2022-0783.690.385.2
2022-0877.48580.3
2022-097178.774.2
2022-1073.382.478.7
2022-1175.383.178.7
2022-1272.281.275.7
2023-0176.683.777.8
2023-0274.482.676.9
2023-0377.983.472.4
2023-0478.583.572.2
2023-058083.771.8
2023-0680.684.672.8
2023-0781.885.273.3
2023-0879.28370.7
2023-0976.180.168.6
2023-1075.478.764.7
2023-1177.480.366.9
2023-1278.781.367.3
2024-01808265.7
2024-028182.866.5
2024-0381.48468
2024-047982.265.6
2024-0579.582.565.5
2024-0680.283.264.5
2024-0779.783.565.3
2024-0881.28565
2024-0981.985.565
2024-1081.584.264.4
2024-1182.786.867.2
2024-1282.786.365.7
2025-0183.887.366.7
2025-0281.486.164.6
2025-0375.581.360.7
2025-04747958.3
2025-0574.378.958.3
2025-0675.980.260
2025-077680.159.1
2025-0875.680.260.8
2025-0977.280.960.5
2025-1079.182.262
2025-1179.38361.7
2025-1280.283.761.6
2026-0180.783.962.1
2026-0279.983.963
2026-0377.880.660.2
2026-0481.68362.1
2026-0582.183.963.4
2026-0683.684.164.3
2026-0780.584.864.4
Rows × columns
59 × 4
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 Share price indexed to 100, three covered call ETFs, monthly, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
month text 59 distinct values (2021-09, 2021-10, 2021-11…)
qyld_price_index number 71 to 103.5 US dollars
xyld_price_index number 78.7 to 104.3 US dollars
ryld_price_index number 58.3 to 101.4 US dollars

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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WITH monthly AS
(
    SELECT
        ticker,
        toStartOfMonth(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) AS month_start,
        argMax(toFloat64(close), window_start)                       AS month_close
    FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
    WHERE ticker IN ('QYLD', 'XYLD', 'RYLD')
      AND window_start >= toDateTime('2021-09-01 04:00:00')
      AND window_start <  toDateTime('2026-08-01 04:00:00')
      AND (toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60
           + toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))) >= 570
      AND (toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60
           + toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))) < 960
    GROUP BY ticker, month_start
),
base AS
(
    SELECT
        ticker,
        argMin(month_close, month_start) AS base_close
    FROM monthly
    GROUP BY ticker
)
SELECT
    formatDateTime(m.month_start, '%Y-%m')                                  AS month,
    round(100 * sumIf(m.month_close / b.base_close, m.ticker = 'QYLD'), 1)  AS qyld_price_index,
    round(100 * sumIf(m.month_close / b.base_close, m.ticker = 'XYLD'), 1)  AS xyld_price_index,
    round(100 * sumIf(m.month_close / b.base_close, m.ticker = 'RYLD'), 1)  AS ryld_price_index
FROM monthly AS m
INNER JOIN base AS b ON b.ticker = m.ticker
GROUP BY m.month_start
ORDER BY m.month_start
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