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Weekly Market Recap: The Week in Numbers
Where the volume went: most dollars traded over the past weekranking · 2026-09-15 · 8×2Preview: 8 ranked values, largest first. The eleven S&P 500 sectors over the past weekranking · 2026-09-15 · 11×2Preview: 11 ranked values, largest first. Biggest stock losers over the past weekranking · 2026-09-15 · 7×3Preview: 7 ranked values, smallest first. The major index ETFs over the past weekranking · 2026-09-15 · 4×4Preview: 4 ranked values, largest first. Biggest stock gainers over the past weekranking · 2026-09-15 · 7×3Preview: 7 ranked values, largest first. Daily market breadth: advancers vs decliners each session (names trading $500M+)series · 2026-09-15 · 5×3Preview: a 5-point series, ending lower.
Upcoming Stock Splits Calendar
Upcoming US stock splits: announced, with a future effective datetable · 2026-09-15 · 30×5 Announced upcoming splits by directionranking · 2026-09-15 · 2×2Preview: 2 ranked values, largest first. Announced stock splits by effective month: forward vs reverseseries · 2026-09-15 · 4×4Preview: a 4-point series, ending lower.
Upcoming Ex-Dividend Dates: Stocks This Week
Three household payers at their last ex-date: prior close, ex-morning open, and the payment for scaleseries · 2026-09-15 · 3×8Preview: a 3-point series, roughly flat. Who goes ex-dividend in the next 14 days: names, cadence and implied yield by size bandtable · 2026-09-15 · 4×5 Names going ex-dividend, day by day: the next seven days of declared recordsseries · 2026-09-15 · 5×5Preview: a 5-point series, ending lower. Ex-dividend dates by calendar month: three-year average, quarterly vs monthly payersseries · 2026-09-15 · 12×4Preview: a 12-point series, ending higher. Thirteen big dividend and income funds: last ex-date, cadence, and the implied next ex-dateseries · 2026-09-15 · 13×8Preview: a 13-point series, roughly flat. Forward-declared ex-dividend records on file: the receipt behind this calendarscalar · 2026-09-15 · 1×53,507 Every mega-cap ex-dividend event of the past six months: price path from the pre-ex closetable · 2026-09-15 · 5×6 Largest companies going ex-dividend in the next 14 days: amount, pay date, indicated yieldseries · 2026-09-15 · 12×8Preview: a 12-point series, ending higher.
Unusual Volume Stocks This Week, Measured
How the whole qualifying universe traded this week, bucketed by relative volumeranking · 2026-09-15 · 7×4Preview: 7 ranked values, smallest first. Persistence check: the eight leaders' daily relative volume across the five sessionstable · 2026-09-15 · 8×5 Highest relative volume this week: trailing 5 sessions vs. the prior 40, for names trading $500M+ in the weekseries · 2026-09-15 · 8×6Preview: a 8-point series, ending lower. The board leader, day by day: daily relative volume and open-to-close change (last 15 sessions)series · 2026-09-15 · 15×5Preview: a 15-point series, roughly flat. Wild multiples the dollar floor removes: highest relative volume among names trading under $500M this weekseries · 2026-09-15 · 6×5Preview: a 6-point series, ending higher.
Unusual Options Activity: Last Session
Market-wide options volume by session, with monthly expirations labelledseries · 2026-09-15 · 25×5Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. Calls or puts: the board's call and put contract volume on the same sessiontable · 2026-09-15 · 10×5 What follows a heavy options session: next-session absolute move vs. the same names on an ordinary daytable · 2026-09-15 · 5×6 What the session's contracts were made of: options volume by days to expiryranking · 2026-09-15 · 6×4Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first. Unusual options activity: last completed session vs. each underlying's own 20-session averagetable · 2026-09-15 · 10×8
Short Squeeze Candidates This Week
Squeeze-shaped mechanics: crowded shorts among liquid names, with a rising priceranking · 2026-09-15 · 12×4Preview: 12 ranked values, largest first. The screened names ranked by short interest against shares outstanding (not float)table · 2026-09-15 · 10×5 Every past screened name, by what it did over the next 30 daysranking · 2026-09-15 · 6×3Preview: 6 ranked values, smallest first. From the whole settlement file down to the screened list, one rule at a timeranking · 2026-09-15 · 4×2Preview: 4 ranked values, largest first. Every input behind this screen, and how many days old it isseries · 2026-09-15 · 3×3Preview: a 3-point series, ending lower. Liquid names at 5+ and 10+ days to cover, settlement by settlementseries · 2026-09-15 · 12×4Preview: a 12-point series, ending higher.
Short Selling Bans Explained: US, Germany, EU
What ESMA measured during the 2020 bans (published estimates, % versus the control group)ranking · 2026-09-15 · 4×2Preview: 4 ranked values, largest first. Every outright short selling ban since 2008, dated to the order that set ittable · 2026-09-15 · 9×5
Recent Stock Splits (Forward and Reverse)
Forward vs reverse splits executed in the last 45 daysranking · 2026-09-15 · 2×2Preview: 2 ranked values, largest first. Recent reverse stock splits (shares consolidated), last 30 daysranking · 2026-09-15 · 15×4Preview: 15 ranked values, largest first. Recent forward stock splits (shares multiplied), last 60 days, ETFs excludedranking · 2026-09-15 · 15×4Preview: 15 ranked values, largest first.
Options Expiry Days in India: NSE and BSE
Weekdays with a traded expiration: SPY, QQQ and IWM, trailing five weeksranking · 2026-09-15 · 3×4Preview: 3 ranked values, largest first.
Most Shorted Stocks Right Now, Measured
The receipts: universe size, filter bite, median crowding, and list churn at the latest printscalar · 2026-09-15 · 1×522,567 Largest short positions by shares: latest settlement, liquid namesranking · 2026-09-15 · 10×4Preview: 10 ranked values, largest first. Crowding leaders vs. their own price: about one month of sessionsseries · 2026-09-15 · 4×5Preview: a 4-point series, ending higher. GME through the January 2021 squeeze: the same three columns, settlement by settlementseries · 2026-09-15 · 10×4Preview: a 10-point series, ending lower. Today's top-3 crowding leaders, traced back eight settlementsseries · 2026-09-15 · 8×4Preview: a 8-point series, ending higher. Biggest days-to-cover increases, latest settlement vs. the prior printranking · 2026-09-15 · 8×4Preview: 8 ranked values, largest first. Highest days to cover among liquid names: latest settlement on filetable · 2026-09-15 · 10×5
Stock Market Holidays 2026–2027: NYSE & Nasdaq
Upcoming US stock market holidays and early closesseries · 2026-09-15 · 12×6Preview: a 12-point series, ending higher. Recently-passed weekday closures, recovered from the SPY tapeseries · 2026-09-15 · 4×3Preview: a 4-point series, roughly flat. Regular trading sessions over the trailing yearscalar · 2026-09-15 · 1×3252 The closure calendar ahead, at a glancescalar · 2026-09-15 · 1×610
Is the Stock Market Open Today?
This calendar year's closures: already passed (counted from the tape) plus still ahead (from the calendar)table · 2026-09-15 · 2×5 SPY across recent weekends and holiday weekends: Friday's close vs. the reopening printseries · 2026-09-15 · 11×6Preview: a 11-point series, ending lower. Every upcoming NYSE closure and early close on the calendar feed, with a countdownseries · 2026-09-15 · 12×6Preview: a 12-point series, ending higher. Unscheduled closures on the tape: zero regular-session bars on an ordinary weekdayseries · 2026-09-15 · 5×4Preview: a 5-point series, roughly flat. Market status computed at this page's refresh: weekday check, holiday check, and the ET clockscalar · 2026-09-15 · 1×70 The most recent session on the tape: bar count, same-day SPY options prints, and the last half-day observedscalar · 2026-09-15 · 1×6211 Weekdays in the trailing year when stocks traded but no Treasury yield printedtable · 2026-09-15 · 2×2
How to Read the US Equity Trade Tape
Two companies behind one symbol: TWTR on the daily barsseries · 2026-09-15 · 2×5Preview: a 2-point series, ending higher. The tape column on eight symbols, 2023-03-15ranking · 2026-09-15 · 8×3Preview: 8 ranked values, smallest first. Sessions and symbols on the tape, by yearseries · 2026-09-15 · 24×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. Share of prints with a placeholder participant timestamp, one March session per year (IBM and MSFT)ranking · 2026-09-15 · 24×4Preview: 16 ranked values, smallest first. IBM's NYSE closing auction print: seconds after 4:00 p.m. ET, one March session per yearranking · 2026-09-15 · 17×4Preview: 16 ranked values, smallest first. Placeholder share by session, five large names, July to August 2015series · 2026-09-15 · 15×3Preview: a 15-point series, ending lower. The first session with a populated participant timestampscalar · 2026-09-15 · 1×26.41M Correction indicator counts on one session, fifteen large names, 2023-03-15ranking · 2026-09-15 · 5×3Preview: 5 ranked values, smallest first.
Highest Implied Volatility Stocks Right Now
SPY, the same measurement: the market's calm benchmarkscalar · 2026-09-15 · 1×313.2 ATM implied volatility across every actively traded underlying, latest sessionscalar · 2026-09-15 · 1×5969 Highest ATM implied volatility: liquid single names and funds, latest sessiontable · 2026-09-15 · 12×5
Dividend Increases & Cuts This Week
Increases against cuts, by week of declaration (complete weeks only)series · 2026-09-15 · 26×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. Payers across their own share split: the raw change against the split-adjusted changeseries · 2026-09-15 · 9×7Preview: a 9-point series, ending lower. Increases, cuts and the typical raise this calendar year, by company size (bands use today's market value)table · 2026-09-15 · 4×6 Dividend increases declared in the last 7 days, largest companies first (capped at 12 rows)series · 2026-09-15 · 6×8Preview: a 6-point series, ending lower. Dividend cuts declared in the last 90 days, the deepest 14 first (one week is too thin for a table)series · 2026-09-15 · 14×6Preview: a 14-point series, ending higher.
Can You Day Trade an Index Fund? ETFs vs Funds
VOO: last traded price in each 30-minute bucket of the most recent complete session (ET, extended hours included)series · 2026-09-15 · 25×2Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. Typical quoted spread on the three largest S&P 500 ETFs, trailing five daysranking · 2026-09-15 · 3×3Preview: 3 ranked values, smallest first.
Biggest Stock Gainers and Losers This Week
Biggest stock losers this week (names trading $1B+, leveraged/inverse ETFs excluded)ranking · 2026-09-15 · 10×4Preview: 10 ranked values, smallest first. The four major index ETFs this week, for contextranking · 2026-09-15 · 4×2Preview: 4 ranked values, largest first. Biggest stock gainers this week (names trading $1B+, leveraged/inverse ETFs excluded)ranking · 2026-09-15 · 10×4Preview: 10 ranked values, largest first.
Biggest Stock Movers This Month
The window and the screened universe behind every board on this pagescalar · 2026-09-15 · 1×521 Where every screened company landed: monthly returns by bucketranking · 2026-09-15 · 6×2Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first. Eight household mega-cap names over the same windowranking · 2026-09-15 · 8×2Preview: 8 ranked values, largest first. Biggest stock losers this month (companies trading $1B+ over the window)ranking · 2026-09-15 · 10×3Preview: 10 ranked values, smallest first. The four major index trackers across the same window, rebased to the first openseries · 2026-09-15 · 21×5Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. Biggest stock gainers this month (companies trading $1B+ over the window)ranking · 2026-09-15 · 10×3Preview: 10 ranked values, largest first.
Biggest Stock Gainers & Losers of 2026
Excluded from the boards: 2026 splits large enough to fake a year-to-date moveseries · 2026-09-15 · 13×5Preview: a 13-point series, ending higher. The screen, stage by stage: how many names survive each filterranking · 2026-09-15 · 5×2Preview: 5 ranked values, largest first. Biggest stock losers of 2026: worst ten year to date among heavily traded namesranking · 2026-09-15 · 10×3Preview: 10 ranked values, smallest first. The four major index ETFs, year to date, over the same measured windowseries · 2026-09-15 · 4×4Preview: a 4-point series, ending lower. Biggest stock gainers of 2026: top ten year to date among heavily traded namesranking · 2026-09-15 · 10×3Preview: 10 ranked values, largest first. Year-to-date breadth: how the screened universe is distributed across return bucketsranking · 2026-09-15 · 8×3Preview: 8 ranked values, smallest first.
Stocks at 52-Week Highs and Lows
How far the whole screen sits below its 52-week highranking · 2026-09-15 · 6×4Preview: 6 ranked values, smallest first. Stocks at 52-week lows, ordered by year-to-date returnranking · 2026-09-15 · 12×3Preview: 12 ranked values, smallest first. Where five broad-market ETFs sit inside their own 52-week rangeranking · 2026-09-15 · 5×4Preview: 5 ranked values, smallest first. Stocks at 52-week highs, ordered by year-to-date returnranking · 2026-09-15 · 12×3Preview: 12 ranked values, smallest first. New 52-week highs against new lows, daily, over the past six weeksseries · 2026-09-15 · 30×4Preview: a 16-point series, roughly flat.
What Replaced the PDT Rule? Intraday Margin
What 100 shares, one contract's deliverable, cost at the end of August 2026ranking · 2026-09-14 · 6×4Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first. Intraday high-to-low range as a share of the open, August 2026ranking · 2026-09-14 · 6×3Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first. The five widest AAPL sessions of August 2026 for the same $5,000 accountranking · 2026-09-14 · 5×3Preview: 5 ranked values, largest first. A $5,000 account holding $20,000 of AAPL from the open: loss and deficit at each session low, August 2026series · 2026-09-14 · 21×3Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower.
US Stocks 23/5 Trading: The December 2026 Plan
Extended-hours sale conditions defined on the taperanking · 2026-09-14 · 3×3Preview: 3 ranked values, smallest first.
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$500 a month into SPY vs one lump sum, 2016 to 2026 (portfolio value, $ thousands)

$500 a month into SPY vs one lump sum, 2016 to 2026 (portfolio value, $ thousands)

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$500 a month into SPY vs one lump sum, 2016 to 2026 (portfolio value, $ thousands) — 126 rows by 4 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
monthdca_valuelumpsum_valueinvested
2016-01-010.5630.5
2016-02-01160.71
2016-03-011.562.11.5
2016-04-012.164.82
2016-05-012.665.22.5
2016-06-013.165.93
2016-07-013.665.83.5
2016-08-014.2684
2016-09-014.768.14.5
2016-10-015.267.65
2016-11-015.666.15.5
2016-12-016.368.86
2017-01-01770.66.5
2017-02-017.571.47
2017-03-018.575.17.5
2017-04-018.873.88
2017-05-019.474.88.5
2017-06-0110.176.39
2017-07-0110.6769.5
2017-08-0111.377.510
2017-09-0111.877.710.5
2017-10-0112.579.111
2017-11-0113.380.711.5
2017-12-0114.182.912
2018-01-0114.984.312.5
2018-02-0116.188.313
2018-03-0115.883.913.5
2018-04-0115.780.714
2018-05-0116.683.114.5
2018-06-0117.785.815
2018-07-0118.185.215.5
2018-08-0119.288.116
2018-09-0120.390.916.5
2018-10-0120.991.417
2018-11-0120.185.717.5
2018-12-012187.518
2019-01-0119.378.418.5
2019-02-0121.484.719
2019-03-0122.787.919.5
2019-04-0123.689.620
2019-05-0124.691.520.5
2019-06-0123.786.121
2019-07-012692.721.5
2019-08-0126.492.422
2019-09-0126.591.122.5
2019-10-0127.391.923
2019-11-01299623.5
2019-12-013097.724
2020-01-0131.8101.824.5
2020-02-0132.2101.625
2020-03-0131.296.925.5
2020-04-0125.377.126
2020-05-0129.688.626.5
2020-06-0132.595.827
2020-07-0133.597.327.5
2020-08-013610328
2020-09-0139.1110.528.5
2020-10-0137.9105.629
2020-11-0137.6103.529.5
2020-12-0142.2114.730
2021-01-0143115.630.5
2021-02-0144.4117.931
2021-03-0146.5122.131.5
2021-04-0148.3125.532
2021-05-0150.9131.132.5
2021-06-0151.6131.533
2021-07-0153.4134.933.5
2021-08-0154.8137.234
2021-09-0157.1141.634.5
2021-10-0155.3136.135
2021-11-0159.1144.235.5
2021-12-0158.4141.236
2022-01-0162.4149.836.5
2022-02-0159.714237
2022-03-0157.2134.837.5
2022-04-0160.714238
2022-05-0156.1129.938.5
2022-06-0155.9128.439
2022-07-0152.5119.539.5
2022-08-0157.1128.740
2022-09-0155.6124.340.5
2022-10-0151.9114.941
2022-11-0155120.541.5
2022-12-0158.7127.742
2023-01-0155.4119.442.5
2023-02-0160.3128.843
2023-03-0158.4123.743.5
2023-04-0161.3128.844
2023-05-0162.5130.244.5
2023-06-0163.9132.245
2023-07-0167.8139.145.5
2023-08-0170.2143.146
2023-09-0169.9141.446.5
2023-10-0166.713447
2023-11-0166.5132.547.5
2023-12-0172.7143.948
2024-01-0175.3148.148.5
2024-02-0178.5153.349
2024-03-0182.8160.749.5
2024-04-0184.8163.750
2024-05-0181.7156.850.5
2024-06-0186.7165.451
2024-07-0190.1170.951.5
2024-08-0190.2170.252
2024-09-0192.2173.152.5
2024-10-0195.5178.353
2024-11-0196.417953.5
2024-12-01102.4189.254
2025-01-0199.7183.254.5
2025-02-01102.4187.355
2025-03-01100.518355.5
2025-04-0197.1175.956
2025-05-0197.217556.5
2025-06-01103.6185.857
2025-07-01108.5193.657.5
2025-08-01109.7194.958
2025-09-01113.5200.758.5
2025-10-01119209.559
2025-11-01122.1214.259.5
2025-12-01122.1213.260
2026-01-01123.1214.160.5
2026-02-01125.821861
2026-03-01124.6215.161.5
2026-04-01119.5205.462
2026-05-01131.9225.962.5
2026-06-01139.3237.763
the exact SQL behind every number
WITH
monthly AS (
    SELECT toStartOfMonth(dt) AS mo, argMin(c, dt) AS px
    FROM (
        SELECT toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) AS dt,
               argMax(toFloat64(close), window_start) AS c
        FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
        WHERE ticker = 'SPY'
          AND window_start >= '2016-01-01 00:00:00' AND window_start < '2026-07-01 00:00:00'
          AND (toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60
               + toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))) BETWEEN 570 AND 959
        GROUP BY dt
    )
    GROUP BY mo
),
agg AS (
    SELECT argMin(px, mo) AS first_px, sum(500.0) AS total_invested FROM monthly
)
SELECT mo AS month,
       round(sum(500.0 / px) OVER (ORDER BY mo) * px / 1000, 1) AS dca_value,
       round((total_invested / first_px) * px / 1000, 1) AS lumpsum_value,
       round(sum(500.0) OVER (ORDER BY mo) / 1000, 1) AS invested
FROM monthly CROSS JOIN agg
ORDER BY mo
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