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The market's Brier score across expiry horizons, SPY

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 Brier Score: How to Grade a Forecast.

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The market's Brier score across expiry horizons, SPY — 6 rows by 4 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
horizonmarket_briercoin_flip_briersample_size
1 to 7 days0.10840.25151673
8 to 14 days0.12690.25160991
15 to 30 days0.12640.25152490
31 to 60 days0.14710.25201080
61 to 120 days0.13370.25182387
121 to 250 days0.12180.25157962
Rows × columns
6 × 4
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
Licence
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What each column holds

Column definitions for The market's Brier score across expiry horizons, SPY, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
horizon text 6 distinct values
market_brier number 0.1084 to 0.1471
coin_flip_brier number every row is 0.25
sample_size number 151,673 to 201,080

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
WITH settle AS
(
    SELECT
        date                             AS settle_date,
        any(toFloat64(underlying_close)) AS settle_px
    FROM global_markets.options_greeks
    WHERE underlying_symbol = 'SPY'
      AND date >= '2025-01-01'
      AND date <  '2026-08-01'
    GROUP BY date
),
scored AS
(
    SELECT
        multiIf(g.days_to_expiry <=   7, 1,
                g.days_to_expiry <=  14, 2,
                g.days_to_expiry <=  30, 3,
                g.days_to_expiry <=  60, 4,
                g.days_to_expiry <= 120, 5,
                6)                                      AS horizon_rank,
        abs(toFloat64(g.delta))                         AS stated,
        startsWith(lower(toString(g.option_type)), 'c') AS is_call,
        if(is_call,
           s.settle_px > toFloat64(g.strike_price),
           s.settle_px < toFloat64(g.strike_price))     AS finished_itm
    FROM global_markets.options_greeks AS g
    INNER JOIN settle AS s ON s.settle_date = g.expiration_date
    WHERE g.underlying_symbol = 'SPY'
      AND g.date >= '2025-01-01'
      AND g.date <  '2026-06-01'
      AND g.expiration_date <= '2026-07-31'
      AND g.days_to_expiry BETWEEN 1 AND 250
      AND g.iv_converged = 1
      AND g.volume > 0
      AND abs(g.delta) > 0.02
      AND abs(g.delta) < 0.98
)
SELECT
    multiIf(horizon_rank = 1, '1 to 7 days',
            horizon_rank = 2, '8 to 14 days',
            horizon_rank = 3, '15 to 30 days',
            horizon_rank = 4, '31 to 60 days',
            horizon_rank = 5, '61 to 120 days',
            '121 to 250 days')                                       AS horizon,
    round(avg((stated - finished_itm) * (stated - finished_itm)), 4) AS market_brier,
    round(avg((0.5 - finished_itm) * (0.5 - finished_itm)), 4)       AS coin_flip_brier,
    count()                                                          AS sample_size
FROM scored
GROUP BY horizon_rank
ORDER BY horizon_rank

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