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How often a session pokes through the prior day's high or low and closes back inside, 2021 to 2025

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 2026-09-28, from What Is a Liquidity Sweep in Trading?.

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How often a session pokes through the prior day's high or low and closes back inside, 2021 to 2025 — 7 rows by 6 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
tickersession_counthigh_sweep_counthigh_sweep_pctlow_sweep_countlow_sweep_pct
AAPL125527121.625820.6
JPM125528222.525920.6
KO125528822.930224.1
MSFT125526621.226721.3
NVDA12552512025620.4
QQQ125524619.624819.8
SPY125526921.423618.8
Rows × columns
7 × 6
Computed
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No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds

Column definitions for How often a session pokes through the prior day's high or low and closes back inside, 2021 to 2025, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
ticker text 7 distinct values (AAPL, JPM, KO…)
session_count number every row is 1,255 count
high_sweep_count number 246 to 288 US dollars
high_sweep_pct number 19.6 to 22.9 percent
low_sweep_count number 236 to 302 US dollars
low_sweep_pct number 18.8 to 24.1 percent

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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SELECT
    ticker,
    count()                                                               AS session_count,
    countIf(hi > prior_hi AND cl < prior_hi)                              AS high_sweep_count,
    round(100.0 * countIf(hi > prior_hi AND cl < prior_hi) / count(), 1)  AS high_sweep_pct,
    countIf(lo < prior_lo AND cl > prior_lo)                              AS low_sweep_count,
    round(100.0 * countIf(lo < prior_lo AND cl > prior_lo) / count(), 1)  AS low_sweep_pct
FROM
(
    SELECT
        ticker,
        date,
        hi,
        lo,
        cl,
        lagInFrame(hi) OVER (PARTITION BY ticker ORDER BY date ROWS BETWEEN 1 PRECEDING AND CURRENT ROW) AS prior_hi,
        lagInFrame(lo) OVER (PARTITION BY ticker ORDER BY date ROWS BETWEEN 1 PRECEDING AND CURRENT ROW) AS prior_lo
    FROM
    (
        SELECT
            ticker,
            date,
            argMax(high,  _ingest_time) AS hi,
            argMax(low,   _ingest_time) AS lo,
            argMax(close, _ingest_time) AS cl
        FROM global_markets.stocks_daily_aggs
        WHERE ticker IN ('SPY', 'QQQ', 'AAPL', 'MSFT', 'NVDA', 'JPM', 'KO')
          AND date >= '2020-12-31'
          AND date <  '2026-01-01'
        GROUP BY ticker, date
    )
)
WHERE date >= '2021-01-01'
  AND prior_hi > 0
GROUP BY ticker
ORDER BY ticker
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