S&P 500 (SPY) OHLC, 2015 to 2026
SPY closed July 2026 at $747.03, from $199.45 in January 2015: a 275 percent rise over eleven and a half years. The intramonth record is $760.40, set in June 2026. SPY is the largest exchange-traded fund tracking the S&P 500; one share prices the 500 largest listed US companies in a single number.
How it is measured
The four series come from Twelve Data's price feed for SPY: the first, highest, lowest, and last traded prices of each month. A green candle closed above its open, a red one below. The price axis hugs the traded range rather than starting at zero, the convention for price charts, because the information lives in the variation.
What the candles show
93 of the 139 months are green, and the two bear markets of the window read as short red clusters rather than long declines. The pandemic crash cost 19.9 percent from the December 2019 close to the March 2020 close, with March 2020 the worst single month of the series at minus 13.0 percent and April 2020 the best at plus 12.7 percent, back to back. The 2022 decline was slower: 24.8 percent from the December 2021 close to the September 2022 close, nine months of mostly red candles. Monthly grain compresses panic: a crash that took weeks reads as one candle with a long lower wick.
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