Daily market breadth: advancers vs decliners each session (names trading $500M+)
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 2026-08-25, from Weekly Market Recap: The Week in Numbers.
| date | advancers | decliners |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-13 | 151 | 76 |
| 2026-08-14 | 86 | 102 |
| 2026-08-17 | 94 | 127 |
| 2026-08-18 | 91 | 152 |
| 2026-08-19 | 163 | 107 |
- Rows × columns
- 5 × 3
- Period covered
- to
- Computed
- Completeness
- No missing values
- Source
- US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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- Strasmore terms · free, no signup
What each column holds
| Column | Type | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
date |
date | 2026-08-13 to 2026-08-19 | |
advancers |
number | 86 to 163 | |
decliners |
number | 76 to 152 |
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 day AS (
SELECT ticker, toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) AS d,
argMax(toFloat64(close), toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) AS c,
sum(toFloat64(close) * toFloat64(volume)) AS dv
FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
WHERE window_start >= now() - INTERVAL 14 DAY AND (toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60 + toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))) BETWEEN 570 AND 959
GROUP BY ticker, d
),
chg AS (SELECT ticker, d, c, dv, lagInFrame(c) OVER (PARTITION BY ticker ORDER BY d) AS prev_c FROM day),
per_day AS (
SELECT d,
countIf(c > prev_c AND dv >= 500000000 AND prev_c > 3) AS advancers,
countIf(c < prev_c AND dv >= 500000000 AND prev_c > 3) AS decliners,
countIf(dv >= 500000000 AND prev_c > 3) AS total
FROM chg WHERE d >= (SELECT max(d) FROM day) - 12 AND prev_c > 0
GROUP BY d HAVING total >= 100
),
recent AS (SELECT d, advancers, decliners FROM per_day ORDER BY d DESC LIMIT 5)
SELECT d AS date, advancers, decliners FROM recent ORDER BY d ASC
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