Weekdays with no US equity session, 2014 through 2023
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 2026-08-08, from When Did the US Stock Market Start? 1792.
| year | weekday_closures |
|---|---|
| 2014 | 9 |
| 2015 | 9 |
| 2016 | 9 |
| 2017 | 9 |
| 2018 | 10 |
| 2019 | 9 |
| 2020 | 9 |
| 2021 | 9 |
| 2022 | 9 |
| 2023 | 10 |
- Rows × columns
- 10 × 2
- Computed
- Completeness
- No missing values
- Source
- US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
- Licence
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What each column holds
| Column | Type | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
year |
text | 10 distinct values (2014, 2015, 2016…) | |
weekday_closures |
number | 9 to 10 |
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
SELECT
toString(toYear(cal.day)) AS year,
countIf(ifNull(s.sessions, 0) = 0) AS weekday_closures
FROM
(
SELECT toDate('2014-01-01') + arrayJoin(range(3652)) AS day
) AS cal
LEFT JOIN
(
SELECT
date AS d,
count() AS sessions
FROM global_markets.stocks_daily_aggs
WHERE ticker = 'SPY'
AND date >= '2014-01-01'
AND date < '2024-01-01'
GROUP BY d
) AS s ON s.d = cal.day
WHERE toDayOfWeek(cal.day) BETWEEN 1 AND 5
AND cal.day < toDate('2024-01-01')
GROUP BY year
ORDER BY year
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