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Every January on the daily tape, in trading sessions

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 2026-08-11, from The January Effect: Does It Still Work?.

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Every January on the daily tape, in trading sessions — 23 rows by 2 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
yearjanuary_sessions
200420
200520
200620
200720
200821
200920
201019
201120
201220
201321
201421
201520
201619
201720
201821
201921
202021
202119
202220
202320
202421
202520
202620
Rows × columns
23 × 2
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 Every January on the daily tape, in trading sessions, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
year text 23 distinct values (2004, 2005, 2006…)
january_sessions number 19 to 21

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
SELECT
    toString(toYear(date)) AS year,
    count()                AS january_sessions
FROM global_markets.stocks_daily_aggs
WHERE ticker = 'SPY'
  AND toMonth(date) = 1
GROUP BY year
ORDER BY year

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