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One year of SPY, three sampling frequencies, one annualized Sharpe ratio

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 2026-08-06, from What Is the Sharpe Ratio? Formula and Math.

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One year of SPY, three sampling frequencies, one annualized Sharpe ratio — 3 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
samplingper_period_sharpeannualized_sharpe
Daily0.04310.68
Weekly0.09150.66
Monthly0.30091.04
Rows × columns
3 × 3
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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Column definitions for One year of SPY, three sampling frequencies, one annualized Sharpe ratio, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
sampling text 3 distinct values (Daily, Monthly, Weekly)
per_period_sharpe number 0.0431 to 0.3009
annualized_sharpe number 0.66 to 1.04

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
            toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) AS session_date,
            argMax(toFloat64(close), window_start)               AS close_px
        FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
        WHERE ticker = 'SPY'
          AND window_start >= toDateTime('2024-12-24 00:00:00')
          AND window_start <  toDateTime('2026-01-01 05:00:00')
          AND (toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60
             + toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))) >= 570
          AND (toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60
             + toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))) < 960
        GROUP BY session_date
    ),
    freqs AS
    (
        SELECT
            arrayJoin([('Daily', 252), ('Weekly', 52), ('Monthly', 12)]) AS pair,
            pair.1                                                       AS sampling,
            pair.2                                                       AS periods_per_year
    ),
    bucketed AS
    (
        SELECT
            f.sampling                         AS sampling,
            f.periods_per_year                 AS periods_per_year,
            multiIf(f.sampling = 'Daily',  d.session_date,
                    f.sampling = 'Weekly', toMonday(d.session_date),
                                           toStartOfMonth(d.session_date)) AS period_key,
            argMax(d.close_px, d.session_date) AS period_close
        FROM daily AS d
        CROSS JOIN freqs AS f
        GROUP BY sampling, periods_per_year, period_key
    ),
    stepped AS
    (
        SELECT
            sampling,
            periods_per_year,
            period_key,
            period_close,
            lagInFrame(period_close, 1) OVER (PARTITION BY sampling ORDER BY period_key
                                              ROWS BETWEEN 1 PRECEDING AND CURRENT ROW) AS prev_close
        FROM bucketed
    ),
    per_period AS
    (
        SELECT
            sampling,
            periods_per_year,
            period_close / prev_close - 1 - 0.0425 / periods_per_year AS ex_ret
        FROM stepped
        WHERE prev_close > 0
          AND period_key >= toDate('2025-01-01')
    )
SELECT
    sampling,
    round(avg(ex_ret) / stddevSamp(ex_ret), 4)                          AS per_period_sharpe,
    round(avg(ex_ret) / stddevSamp(ex_ret) * sqrt(periods_per_year), 2) AS annualized_sharpe
FROM per_period
GROUP BY sampling, periods_per_year
ORDER BY periods_per_year DESC

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