Symbols that printed a final daily bar, by 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 2026-08-22, from Survivorship Bias in Stock Data, Explained.

Rows × columns

10 × 3

Computed

2026-08-22

Completeness

No missing values

Source

US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data

Licence

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Formats

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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 2026-08-22, and the query below is what returned them.

SELECT
    toString(toYear(last_bar))  AS year,
    count()                     AS gone_dark_count,
    round(avg(bars_on_tape))    AS avg_bars_on_tape
FROM
(
    SELECT
        ticker,
        max(date) AS last_bar,
        count()   AS bars_on_tape
    FROM global_markets.stocks_daily_aggs
    WHERE date >= '2015-01-01'
      AND ticker NOT IN ('SPCX')
    GROUP BY ticker
    HAVING max(date) >= toDate('2016-01-01')
       AND max(date) <  toDate('2026-01-01')
)
GROUP BY year
ORDER BY year