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SPY underwater curve: month end close against its running peak, 2016 to 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 2026-08-05, from What Is Maximum Drawdown? Depth vs Recovery.

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SPY underwater curve: month end close against its running peak, 2016 to 2026 — 127 rows by 2 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
monthdrawdown_pct
2016-010
2016-02-0.11
2016-030
2016-040
2016-050
2016-06-0.19
2016-070
2016-080
2016-09-0.47
2016-10-2.24
2016-110
2016-120
2017-010
2017-020
2017-03-0.34
2017-040
2017-050
2017-060
2017-070
2017-080
2017-090
2017-100
2017-110
2017-120
2018-010
2018-02-3.75
2018-03-6.53
2018-04-6.19
2018-05-3.96
2018-06-3.8
2018-07-0.24
2018-080
2018-090
2018-10-6.85
2018-11-5.11
2018-12-13.93
2019-01-7.13
2019-02-4.15
2019-03-2.75
2019-040
2019-05-6.33
2019-06-0.3
2019-070
2019-08-1.65
2019-09-0.18
2019-100
2019-110
2019-120
2020-01-0.05
2020-02-7.99
2020-03-19.94
2020-04-9.79
2020-05-5.51
2020-06-4.14
2020-070
2020-080
2020-09-4.14
2020-10-6.53
2020-110
2020-120
2021-01-0.98
2021-020
2021-030
2021-040
2021-050
2021-060
2021-070
2021-080
2021-09-4.97
2021-100
2021-11-0.74
2021-120
2022-01-5.28
2022-02-8.05
2022-03-4.89
2022-04-13.23
2022-05-13.04
2022-06-20.55
2022-07-13.23
2022-08-16.79
2022-09-24.78
2022-10-18.67
2022-11-14.2
2022-12-19.47
2023-01-14.41
2023-02-16.57
2023-03-13.8
2023-04-12.41
2023-05-12.01
2023-06-6.66
2023-07-3.6
2023-08-5.18
2023-09-10
2023-10-11.93
2023-11-3.91
2023-120
2024-010
2024-020
2024-030
2024-04-4.03
2024-050
2024-060
2024-070
2024-080
2024-090
2024-10-0.95
2024-110
2024-12-2.75
2025-01-0.12
2025-02-1.41
2025-03-7.2
2025-04-8
2025-05-2.17
2025-060
2025-070
2025-080
2025-090
2025-100
2025-110
2025-12-0.23
2026-010
2026-02-0.81
2026-03-6.02
2026-040
2026-050
2026-06-1.33
2026-07-1.27
Rows × columns
127 × 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 SPY underwater curve: month end close against its running peak, 2016 to 2026, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
month text 127 distinct values (2016-01, 2016-02, 2016-03…)
drawdown_pct number -24.78 to 0 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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WITH monthly AS (
    SELECT toStartOfMonth(toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))) AS month_start,
           argMax(toFloat64(close), window_start) AS close_px
    FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
    WHERE ticker = 'SPY'
      AND toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) >= toDate('2016-01-01')
      AND toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) <= toDate('2026-07-31')
      AND (toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60
           + toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))) BETWEEN 570 AND 959
    GROUP BY month_start
),
runs AS (
    SELECT month_start,
           close_px,
           max(close_px) OVER (ORDER BY month_start
                               ROWS BETWEEN UNBOUNDED PRECEDING AND CURRENT ROW) AS running_peak
    FROM monthly
)
SELECT formatDateTime(month_start, '%Y-%m') AS month,
       round(100 * (close_px / running_peak - 1), 2) AS drawdown_pct
FROM runs
ORDER BY month_start
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