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when-do-vix-options-expire
wednesday_expiriesranking · 2026-09-17 · 12×3Preview: 12 ranked values, largest first.
what-is-the-3m10y-spread
recentseries · 2026-09-17 · 60×6Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. monthlyseries · 2026-09-17 · 241×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. inversionsseries · 2026-09-17 · 9×6Preview: a 9-point series, roughly flat. front_endseries · 2026-09-17 · 42×5Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. episodes_comparedtable · 2026-09-17 · 3×9
what-does-cross-mean-in-trading
quote_statesranking · 2026-09-17 · 3×4Preview: 3 ranked values, largest first. cross_minutesseries · 2026-09-17 · 7×4Preview: a 7-point series, roughly flat. cross_codestable · 2026-09-17 · 13×5
Weekly Market Recap: The Week in Numbers
Where the volume went: most dollars traded over the past weekranking · 2026-09-17 · 8×2Preview: 8 ranked values, largest first. The eleven S&P 500 sectors over the past weekranking · 2026-09-17 · 11×2Preview: 11 ranked values, largest first. Biggest stock losers over the past weekranking · 2026-09-17 · 7×3Preview: 7 ranked values, smallest first. The major index ETFs over the past weekranking · 2026-09-17 · 4×4Preview: 4 ranked values, largest first. Biggest stock gainers over the past weekranking · 2026-09-17 · 7×3Preview: 7 ranked values, largest first. Daily market breadth: advancers vs decliners each session (names trading $500M+)series · 2026-09-17 · 5×3Preview: a 5-point series, roughly flat.
Upcoming Stock Splits Calendar
Upcoming US stock splits: announced, with a future effective datetable · 2026-09-17 · 30×5 Announced upcoming splits by directionranking · 2026-09-17 · 2×2Preview: 2 ranked values, largest first. Announced stock splits by effective month: forward vs reverseseries · 2026-09-17 · 4×4Preview: a 4-point series, ending lower.
Unusual Volume Stocks This Week, Measured
How the whole qualifying universe traded this week, bucketed by relative volumeranking · 2026-09-17 · 7×4Preview: 7 ranked values, smallest first. Persistence check: the eight leaders' daily relative volume across the five sessionstable · 2026-09-17 · 8×5 Highest relative volume this week: trailing 5 sessions vs. the prior 40, for names trading $500M+ in the weekseries · 2026-09-17 · 8×6Preview: a 8-point series, roughly flat. The board leader, day by day: daily relative volume and open-to-close change (last 15 sessions)series · 2026-09-17 · 15×5Preview: a 15-point series, roughly flat. Wild multiples the dollar floor removes: highest relative volume among names trading under $500M this weekseries · 2026-09-17 · 6×5Preview: a 6-point series, ending higher.
Unusual Options Activity: Last Session
Market-wide options volume by session, with monthly expirations labelledseries · 2026-09-17 · 25×5Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. Calls or puts: the board's call and put contract volume on the same sessiontable · 2026-09-17 · 10×5 What follows a heavy options session: next-session absolute move vs. the same names on an ordinary daytable · 2026-09-17 · 5×6 What the session's contracts were made of: options volume by days to expiryranking · 2026-09-17 · 6×4Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first. Unusual options activity: last completed session vs. each underlying's own 20-session averagetable · 2026-09-17 · 10×8
twap-vs-vwap-vs-pov-orders
volume_curveseries · 2026-09-17 · 13×4Preview: a 13-point series, roughly flat. open_vs_lunchtable · 2026-09-17 · 5×6 lunch_povseries · 2026-09-17 · 13×4Preview: a 13-point series, ending higher. curve_dispersionseries · 2026-09-17 · 13×4Preview: a 13-point series, ending higher.
the-7-5-3-1-rule-mutual-funds
worst_windowstable · 2026-09-17 · 8×6 step_uptable · 2026-09-17 · 10×5 rolling_7yseries · 2026-09-17 · 193×5Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. return_bucketsranking · 2026-09-17 · 5×3Preview: 5 ranked values, smallest first.
the-390-rule-in-options-trading
spy_trade_sizesranking · 2026-09-17 · 5×3Preview: 5 ranked values, largest first. spy_option_paceseries · 2026-09-17 · 14×3Preview: a 14-point series, ending lower. session_shapeseries · 2026-09-17 · 16×3Preview: a 16-point series, roughly flat. one_lot_shareranking · 2026-09-17 · 6×4Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first.
Short Squeeze Candidates This Week
Squeeze-shaped mechanics: crowded shorts among liquid names, with a rising priceranking · 2026-09-17 · 12×4Preview: 12 ranked values, largest first. The screened names ranked by short interest against shares outstanding (not float)table · 2026-09-17 · 10×5 Every past screened name, by what it did over the next 30 daysranking · 2026-09-17 · 6×3Preview: 6 ranked values, smallest first. From the whole settlement file down to the screened list, one rule at a timeranking · 2026-09-17 · 4×2Preview: 4 ranked values, largest first. Every input behind this screen, and how many days old it isseries · 2026-09-17 · 3×3Preview: a 3-point series, ending lower. Liquid names at 5+ and 10+ days to cover, settlement by settlementseries · 2026-09-17 · 12×4Preview: a 12-point series, ending higher.
santa-claus-rally
worst_windowstable · 2026-09-17 · 5×5 window_vs_decembertable · 2026-09-17 · 3×8 window_volumeranking · 2026-09-17 · 7×4Preview: 7 ranked values, smallest first. santa_windowstable · 2026-09-17 · 23×5 folklore_testtable · 2026-09-17 · 2×6
Recent Stock Splits (Forward and Reverse)
Forward vs reverse splits executed in the last 45 daysranking · 2026-09-17 · 2×2Preview: 2 ranked values, largest first. Recent reverse stock splits (shares consolidated), last 30 daysranking · 2026-09-17 · 15×4Preview: 15 ranked values, largest first. Recent forward stock splits (shares multiplied), last 60 days, ETFs excludedranking · 2026-09-17 · 15×4Preview: 15 ranked values, largest first.
nasdaq-closing-cross-explained
hourly_profileranking · 2026-09-17 · 16×4Preview: 16 ranked values, largest first. cross_shareseries · 2026-09-17 · 8×4Preview: a 8-point series, ending lower. cross_printtable · 2026-09-17 · 6×6 close_secondsseries · 2026-09-17 · 20×4Preview: a 16-point series, roughly flat. close_codesranking · 2026-09-17 · 4×3Preview: 4 ranked values, smallest first.
Most Shorted Stocks Right Now, Measured
The receipts: universe size, filter bite, median crowding, and list churn at the latest printscalar · 2026-09-17 · 1×522,567 Largest short positions by shares: latest settlement, liquid namesranking · 2026-09-17 · 10×4Preview: 10 ranked values, largest first. Crowding leaders vs. their own price: about one month of sessionsseries · 2026-09-17 · 4×5Preview: a 4-point series, ending higher. GME through the January 2021 squeeze: the same three columns, settlement by settlementseries · 2026-09-17 · 10×4Preview: a 10-point series, ending lower. Today's top-3 crowding leaders, traced back eight settlementsseries · 2026-09-17 · 8×4Preview: a 8-point series, ending higher. Biggest days-to-cover increases, latest settlement vs. the prior printranking · 2026-09-17 · 8×4Preview: 8 ranked values, largest first. Highest days to cover among liquid names: latest settlement on filetable · 2026-09-17 · 10×5
Stock Market Holidays 2026–2027: NYSE & Nasdaq
Upcoming US stock market holidays and early closesseries · 2026-09-17 · 12×6Preview: a 12-point series, ending higher. Recently-passed weekday closures, recovered from the SPY tapeseries · 2026-09-17 · 4×3Preview: a 4-point series, roughly flat. Regular trading sessions over the trailing yearscalar · 2026-09-17 · 1×3251 The closure calendar ahead, at a glancescalar · 2026-09-17 · 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 · 2026-09-17 · 2×5 SPY across recent weekends and holiday weekends: Friday's close vs. the reopening printseries · 2026-09-17 · 10×6Preview: a 10-point series, ending lower. Every upcoming NYSE closure and early close on the calendar feed, with a countdownseries · 2026-09-17 · 12×6Preview: a 12-point series, ending higher. Unscheduled closures on the tape: zero regular-session bars on an ordinary weekdayseries · 2026-09-17 · 5×4Preview: a 5-point series, roughly flat. Market status computed at this page's refresh: weekday check, holiday check, and the ET clockscalar · 2026-09-17 · 1×70 The most recent session on the tape: bar count, same-day SPY options prints, and the last half-day observedscalar · 2026-09-17 · 1×6211 Weekdays in the trailing year when stocks traded but no Treasury yield printedtable · 2026-09-17 · 2×2
how-to-store-market-data-pcaps
retention_arithmeticseries · 2026-09-17 · 3×4Preview: a 3-point series, ending lower.
how-to-get-approved-for-options-trading
margin_spread_laddertable · 2026-09-17 · 9×9 cash_account_laddertable · 2026-09-17 · 9×5
Highest Implied Volatility Stocks Right Now
SPY, the same measurement: the market's calm benchmarkscalar · 2026-09-17 · 1×313.2 ATM implied volatility across every actively traded underlying, latest sessionscalar · 2026-09-17 · 1×5969 Highest ATM implied volatility: liquid single names and funds, latest sessiontable · 2026-09-17 · 12×5
do-you-get-the-dividend-if-you-buy-on-the-ex-date
gap_by_monthseries · 2026-09-17 · 40×5Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. ex_open_basketranking · 2026-09-17 · 21×4Preview: 16 ranked values, largest first. aapl_dividendsseries · 2026-09-17 · 8×12Preview: a 8-point series, roughly flat.
Dividend Increases & Cuts This Week
Increases against cuts, by week of declaration (complete weeks only)series · 2026-09-17 · 26×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. Payers across their own share split: the raw change against the split-adjusted changeseries · 2026-09-17 · 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 · 2026-09-17 · 4×6 Dividend increases declared in the last 7 days, largest companies first (capped at 12 rows)series · 2026-09-17 · 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 · 2026-09-17 · 14×6Preview: a 14-point series, ending higher.
Biggest Stock Gainers and Losers This Week
Biggest stock losers this week (names trading $1B+, leveraged/inverse ETFs excluded)ranking · 2026-09-17 · 10×4Preview: 10 ranked values, smallest first. The four major index ETFs this week, for contextranking · 2026-09-17 · 4×2Preview: 4 ranked values, largest first. Biggest stock gainers this week (names trading $1B+, leveraged/inverse ETFs excluded)ranking · 2026-09-17 · 10×4Preview: 10 ranked values, largest first.
Biggest Stock Movers This Month
The window and the screened universe behind every board on this pagescalar · 2026-09-17 · 1×520 Where every screened company landed: monthly returns by bucketranking · 2026-09-17 · 6×2Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first. Eight household mega-cap names over the same windowranking · 2026-09-17 · 8×2Preview: 8 ranked values, largest first. Biggest stock losers this month (companies trading $1B+ over the window)ranking · 2026-09-17 · 10×3Preview: 10 ranked values, smallest first. The four major index trackers across the same window, rebased to the first openseries · 2026-09-17 · 20×5Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. Biggest stock gainers this month (companies trading $1B+ over the window)ranking · 2026-09-17 · 10×3Preview: 10 ranked values, largest first.
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worst_windows

worst_windows

as of table 5×5read in context →
worst_windows — 5 rows by 5 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
labelmeasured_frommeasured_tosanta_window_pctfollowing_year_pct
Dec 2014 to Jan 2015Dec 23Jan 5-2.9-0.81
Dec 2015 to Jan 2016Dec 23Jan 5-2.269.64
Dec 2007 to Jan 2008Dec 21Jan 3-2.21-38.28
Dec 2004 to Jan 2005Dec 23Jan 4-1.613.01
Dec 2023 to Jan 2024Dec 21Jan 3-0.8323.3
the exact SQL behind every number
WITH
    spy_days AS
    (
        SELECT
            date,
            toYear(date)                                   AS y,
            toMonth(date)                                  AS m,
            argMax(toFloat64(close), _ingest_time)         AS close
        FROM global_markets.stocks_daily_aggs
        WHERE ticker = 'SPY'
        GROUP BY date
    ),
    ranked AS
    (
        SELECT
            date,
            y,
            m,
            close,
            row_number() OVER (PARTITION BY y, m ORDER BY date DESC) AS sessions_from_end,
            row_number() OVER (PARTITION BY y, m ORDER BY date ASC)  AS sessions_from_start
        FROM spy_days
        WHERE m IN (12, 1)
    ),
    windows AS
    (
        SELECT
            toUInt16(if(m = 1, y - 1, y))                       AS year,
            toUInt16(year + 1)                                  AS next_year,
            anyIf(date, m = 12 AND sessions_from_end = 6)       AS base_date,
            anyIf(date, m = 1 AND sessions_from_start = 2)      AS end_date,
            anyIf(close, m = 12 AND sessions_from_end = 6)      AS base_close,
            anyIf(close, m = 12 AND sessions_from_end = 1)      AS december_close,
            anyIf(close, m = 1 AND sessions_from_start = 2)     AS end_close
        FROM ranked
        GROUP BY year
        HAVING countIf(m = 12 AND sessions_from_end = 6) = 1
           AND countIf(m = 1 AND sessions_from_start = 2) = 1
    ),
    year_ends AS
    (
        SELECT
            y,
            argMax(close, date)                                 AS year_end_close
        FROM spy_days
        WHERE m = 12
          AND date < toStartOfYear(today())
        GROUP BY y
    )
SELECT
    concat('Dec ', toString(w.year), ' to Jan ', toString(w.next_year))                 AS label,
    concat(formatDateTime(w.base_date, '%b '), toString(toDayOfMonth(w.base_date)))     AS measured_from,
    concat(formatDateTime(w.end_date, '%b '), toString(toDayOfMonth(w.end_date)))       AS measured_to,
    round((w.end_close / w.base_close - 1) * 100, 2)                                    AS santa_window_pct,
    round((n.year_end_close / w.december_close - 1) * 100, 2)                           AS following_year_pct
FROM windows AS w
INNER JOIN year_ends AS n ON n.y = w.next_year
ORDER BY santa_window_pct ASC
LIMIT 5
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