An illustrative $10,000 SPY stake from year end 2005, marked at each year end

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

21 × 3

Computed

2026-07-31

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 2026-07-31, 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('2005-12-01') 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
),
base AS (
    SELECT px FROM ye WHERE year = 2005
)
SELECT a.year AS year,
       round(a.px / (SELECT px FROM base), 2) AS multiple_of_start,
       round(10000 * a.px / (SELECT px FROM base), 0) AS stake_value_usd
FROM ye AS a
WHERE a.year >= 2005
ORDER BY year