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The recovery, dated: reclaim, failed hold, true bottom, and the last close below

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 2026-07-26, from The 2011 US Downgrade: Black Monday's Tape.

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predowngrade close
120.03
first reclaim date
2011-08-15
sessions before first reclaim
5
bottom date
2011-10-03
bottom close
109.92
bottom vs predowngrade pct
-8.4
bottom vs downgrade monday pct
-2.1
last close below
2011-11-28
total sessions below
41
Rows × columns
1 × 9
Period covered
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
Licence
Strasmore terms · free, no signup
Formats
JSON · CSV · the SQL below

What each column holds

Column definitions for The recovery, dated: reclaim, failed hold, true bottom, and the last close below, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
predowngrade_close number every row is 120.03 US dollars
first_reclaim_date date 2011-08-15
sessions_before_first_reclaim number every row is 5
bottom_date date 2011-10-03
bottom_close number every row is 109.92 US dollars
bottom_vs_predowngrade_pct number every row is -8.4 percent
bottom_vs_downgrade_monday_pct number every row is -2.1 percent
last_close_below date 2011-11-28
total_sessions_below number every row is 41

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 daily AS (
    SELECT
        toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) AS et_date,
        argMax(toFloat64(close), window_start) AS close_usd
    FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
    WHERE ticker = 'SPY'
      AND (toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60 + toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))) BETWEEN 570 AND 959
      AND window_start >= toDateTime('2011-08-05 00:00:00') AND window_start < toDateTime('2012-07-01 00:00:00')
    GROUP BY et_date
),
(SELECT close_usd FROM daily WHERE et_date = toDate('2011-08-05')) AS pre_close,
(SELECT close_usd FROM daily WHERE et_date = toDate('2011-08-08')) AS mon_close,
(SELECT min(et_date) FROM daily WHERE et_date > toDate('2011-08-05') AND close_usd >= pre_close) AS reclaim_d
SELECT
    round(pre_close, 2) AS predowngrade_close,
    toString(reclaim_d) AS first_reclaim_date,
    countIf(et_date > toDate('2011-08-05') AND et_date < reclaim_d) AS sessions_before_first_reclaim,
    toString(argMinIf(et_date, (close_usd, et_date), et_date > toDate('2011-08-05'))) AS bottom_date,
    round(minIf(close_usd, et_date > toDate('2011-08-05')), 2) AS bottom_close,
    round((minIf(close_usd, et_date > toDate('2011-08-05')) / pre_close - 1) * 100, 1) AS bottom_vs_predowngrade_pct,
    round((minIf(close_usd, et_date > toDate('2011-08-05')) / mon_close - 1) * 100, 1) AS bottom_vs_downgrade_monday_pct,
    toString(maxIf(et_date, close_usd < pre_close)) AS last_close_below,
    countIf(et_date > toDate('2011-08-05') AND close_usd < pre_close) AS total_sessions_below
FROM daily

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