Six US index funds, identical window: price return, January 2 to June 30, 2026
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 2026-08-03, from Can an AI Trading Track Record Be Verified?.
| ticker | return_pct | points_above_worst |
|---|---|---|
| IWM | 21.12 | 12.7 |
| QQQ | 18.5 | 10.08 |
| MDY | 15.97 | 7.55 |
| RSP | 10.74 | 2.32 |
| SPY | 8.79 | 0.37 |
| DIA | 8.42 | 0 |
- Rows × columns
- 6 × 3
- Computed
- Completeness
- No missing values
- Source
- US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
- Licence
- Strasmore terms · free, no signup
What each column holds
| Column | Type | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
ticker |
text | 6 distinct values (DIA, IWM, MDY…) | |
return_pct |
number | 8.42 to 21.12 | percent |
points_above_worst |
number | 0 to 12.7 |
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.
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WITH rets AS (
SELECT ticker,
round(100 * (toFloat64(argMax(close, window_start))
/ toFloat64(argMin(close, window_start)) - 1), 2) AS return_pct
FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
WHERE ticker IN ('SPY', 'QQQ', 'IWM', 'DIA', 'RSP', 'MDY')
AND toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) >= toDate('2026-01-02')
AND toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) <= toDate('2026-06-30')
AND (toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60
+ toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))) BETWEEN 570 AND 959
GROUP BY ticker
)
SELECT ticker,
return_pct,
round(return_pct - min(return_pct) OVER (), 2) AS points_above_worst
FROM rets
ORDER BY return_pct DESC
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