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SPY absolute daily move, median and 90th percentile by year

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 2026-08-22, from What Is VIX1D? The 1-Day Volatility Index.

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SPY absolute daily move, median and 90th percentile by year — 8 rows by 4 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
yearmedian_move_pctp90_move_pctsessions_count
20190.411.22252
20200.833.02253
20210.491.43252
20220.982.52251
20230.551.44250
20240.441.24252
20250.521.56250
20260.521.52160
Rows × columns
8 × 4
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds

Column definitions for SPY absolute daily move, median and 90th percentile by year, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
year text 8 distinct values (2019, 2020, 2021…)
median_move_pct number 0.41 to 0.98 percent
p90_move_pct number 1.22 to 3.02 percent
sessions_count number 160 to 253 count

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
        date,
        abs(close_f / prev_close - 1) * 100 AS abs_move_pct
    FROM
    (
        SELECT
            date,
            close_f,
            lagInFrame(close_f) OVER (ORDER BY date ROWS BETWEEN 1 PRECEDING AND CURRENT ROW) AS prev_close
        FROM
        (
            SELECT date, avg(toFloat64(close)) AS close_f
            FROM global_markets.stocks_daily_aggs
            WHERE ticker = 'SPY'
              AND date >= '2018-12-01'
            GROUP BY date
        )
    )
    WHERE prev_close > 0
)
SELECT
    toString(toYear(date))                                                         AS year,
    round(quantileDeterministic(0.5)(abs_move_pct, toUInt32(toYYYYMMDD(date))), 2) AS median_move_pct,
    round(quantileDeterministic(0.9)(abs_move_pct, toUInt32(toYYYYMMDD(date))), 2) AS p90_move_pct,
    count()                                                                        AS sessions_count
FROM daily
WHERE date >= '2019-01-01'
GROUP BY year
ORDER BY year

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