How far SPY travels between 3:00 p.m. ET and the Friday close
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 2026-09-27, from When a Spread Expires Between the Strikes.
| year | expiration_count | median_final_hour_move_pct | p90_final_hour_move_pct |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 50 | 0.353 | 0.779 |
| 2023 | 50 | 0.141 | 0.388 |
| 2024 | 50 | 0.115 | 0.294 |
| 2025 | 49 | 0.103 | 0.399 |
| 2026 | 32 | 0.124 | 0.306 |
- Rows × columns
- 5 × 4
- Computed
- Completeness
- No missing values
- Source
- US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
- Licence
- Strasmore terms · free, no signup
What each column holds
| Column | Type | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
year |
text | 5 distinct values (2022, 2023, 2024…) | |
expiration_count |
number | 32 to 50 | count |
median_final_hour_move_pct |
number | 0.103 to 0.353 | percent |
p90_final_hour_move_pct |
number | 0.294 to 0.779 | 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 bars AS (
SELECT
toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) AS session_date,
toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60
+ toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) AS et_minute,
toFloat64(close) AS px
FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
WHERE ticker = 'SPY'
AND window_start >= '2022-01-01 00:00:00'
AND window_start < '2026-09-01 00:00:00'
),
day_marks AS (
SELECT
session_date,
anyIf(px, et_minute = 900) AS px_3pm,
argMax(px, et_minute) AS px_close
FROM bars
WHERE et_minute >= 570
AND et_minute <= 959
GROUP BY session_date
HAVING px_3pm > 0
AND px_close > 0
AND max(et_minute) >= 955
)
SELECT
toString(toYear(session_date)) AS year,
count() AS expiration_count,
round(quantileDeterministic(0.5)(100 * abs(px_close - px_3pm) / px_3pm, toUInt32(toUnixTimestamp(session_date))), 3) AS median_final_hour_move_pct,
round(quantileDeterministic(0.9)(100 * abs(px_close - px_3pm) / px_3pm, toUInt32(toUnixTimestamp(session_date))), 3) AS p90_final_hour_move_pct
FROM day_marks
WHERE toDayOfWeek(session_date) = 5
GROUP BY year
ORDER BY year
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