What followed each kind of session: next-day outcome by the prior day's move, same twelve names

Name: What followed each kind of session: next-day outcome by the prior day's move, same twelve names
Creator: Strasmore
Published: 2026-07-31
License: https://www.strasmore.com/terms/

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 2026-07-31, from What Is the Efficient Market Hypothesis?.

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What followed each kind of session: next-day outcome by the prior day's move, same twelve names — 5 rows by 4 columns, computed 2026-07-31 from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
prior_day_move	observations	next_day_median_pct	next_day_up_share_pct
1. down 3% or more	664	0.175	52.9
2. down 1 to 3%	2432	0.002	50
3. flat, within 1%	8503	0.076	53.1
4. up 1 to 3%	2737	0.104	53.6
5. up 3% or more	696	0.186	53.9

Rows × columns: 5 × 4
Computed: 2026-07-31
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 What followed each kind of session: next-day outcome by the prior day's move, same twelve names, derived from the stored result.
Column	Type	Range	Notes
`prior_day_move`	text	5 distinct values
`observations`	number	664 to 8,503
`next_day_median_pct`	number	0.002 to 0.186	percent
`next_day_up_share_pct`	number	50 to 53.9	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 2026-07-31, and the query below is what returned them.

Run it yourself

This is the exact query behind the result above. Change a ticker, a date or a column and run it against the warehouse — no account, no key. The no-signup tier is smaller than the one this page was computed on; a query that reaches past it comes back saying which plan runs it.

WITH daily AS (
    SELECT ticker,
           toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) AS dt,
           argMax(toFloat64(close), window_start) AS close_px
    FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
    WHERE ticker IN ('SPY','AAPL','MSFT','KO','JNJ','XOM','JPM','WMT','NVDA','TSLA','PG','HD')
      AND toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) >= toDate('2021-07-01')
      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, dt
),
returns AS (
    SELECT ticker, dt,
           close_px / lagInFrame(close_px) OVER (PARTITION BY ticker ORDER BY dt) - 1 AS ret
    FROM daily
),
paired AS (
    SELECT ticker, ret * 100 AS ret_pct,
           lagInFrame(ret) OVER (PARTITION BY ticker ORDER BY dt) * 100 AS prev_pct
    FROM returns
    WHERE ret IS NOT NULL AND ret > -0.5 AND ret < 0.5
)
SELECT multiIf(prev_pct <= -3, '1. down 3% or more',
               prev_pct <= -1, '2. down 1 to 3%',
               prev_pct < 1,  '3. flat, within 1%',
               prev_pct < 3,  '4. up 1 to 3%',
               '5. up 3% or more') AS prior_day_move,
       count() AS observations,
       round(median(ret_pct), 3) AS next_day_median_pct,
       round(100 * countIf(ret_pct > 0) / count(), 1) AS next_day_up_share_pct
FROM paired
WHERE prev_pct IS NOT NULL
GROUP BY prior_day_move
ORDER BY prior_day_move

SQL to run

WITH daily AS (
    SELECT ticker,
           toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) AS dt,
           argMax(toFloat64(close), window_start) AS close_px
    FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
    WHERE ticker IN ('SPY','AAPL','MSFT','KO','JNJ','XOM','JPM','WMT','NVDA','TSLA','PG','HD')
      AND toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) >= toDate('2021-07-01')
      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, dt
),
returns AS (
    SELECT ticker, dt,
           close_px / lagInFrame(close_px) OVER (PARTITION BY ticker ORDER BY dt) - 1 AS ret
    FROM daily
),
paired AS (
    SELECT ticker, ret * 100 AS ret_pct,
           lagInFrame(ret) OVER (PARTITION BY ticker ORDER BY dt) * 100 AS prev_pct
    FROM returns
    WHERE ret IS NOT NULL AND ret > -0.5 AND ret < 0.5
)
SELECT multiIf(prev_pct <= -3, '1. down 3% or more',
               prev_pct <= -1, '2. down 1 to 3%',
               prev_pct < 1,  '3. flat, within 1%',
               prev_pct < 3,  '4. up 1 to 3%',
               '5. up 3% or more') AS prior_day_move,
       count() AS observations,
       round(median(ret_pct), 3) AS next_day_median_pct,
       round(100 * countIf(ret_pct > 0) / count(), 1) AS next_day_up_share_pct
FROM paired
WHERE prev_pct IS NOT NULL
GROUP BY prior_day_move
ORDER BY prior_day_move

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