What followed each kind of session: next-day outcome by the prior day's move, same twelve names
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?.
| 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 |
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- US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds
| 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 , and the query below is what returned them.
the exact SQL behind every number
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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