SPY calendar-year price change vs the 12% assumption, 2006-2025

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 2026-07-31, from The 8-4-3 Rule for Mutual Funds, Explained.

Rows × columns

20 × 3

Computed

2026-07-31

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 2026-07-31, and the query below is what returned them.

WITH ye AS (
    SELECT toYear(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) AS year,
           argMax(close, window_start) AS px
    FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
    WHERE ticker = 'SPY'
      AND toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) BETWEEN toDate('2004-12-01') AND toDate('2025-12-31')
      AND (toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60
           + toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))) BETWEEN 570 AND 959
    GROUP BY year
)
SELECT a.year AS year,
       round((a.px / b.px - 1) * 100, 2) AS annual_change_pct,
       round(abs((a.px / b.px - 1) * 100 - 12), 2) AS distance_from_12_pct
FROM ye AS a
INNER JOIN ye AS b ON a.year = b.year + 1
WHERE a.year >= 2006
ORDER BY year