Statistics of Price Movements of Cloud Computing ETF FT (SKYY)

The price movements of Cloud Computing ETF FT (ticker SKYY) are summarized in five ways:

  • Table 1. Statistics of daily price changes using the closing prices
  • Table 2. Statistics of daily price changes using the closing and opening prices
  • Table 3 – 7. Statistics of daily price changes when SKYY opened with an increase of 1%, 2%, 3%, 4%, or more than 5%
  • Table 8 – 10. Statistics of stock price changes in the 20 days after SKYY had a big price move
  • Table 11. Statistics of daily price changes in the 20 days after SKYY moved 5% with twice the 30-day average volume

The statistics are calculated using SKYY's price data across 1,547 trading days from 2015 to 2020.

Table 1. Statistics of SKYY one-day price changes

In this table, the one-day price change is calculated using the closing price and the previous day's closing price.

In the past 1,547 trading days, 55.0% of the time (850 days), SKYY closed above the previous day's closing price. 40.7% of the time (629 days), it closed below the previous day's closing price. 4.3% of the time (67 days), it did not change.

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SKYY Price Change (%) Number of Days % of Total Sessions
8 – 9% 1
0.06%
7 – 8% 3
0.19%
6 – 7% 1
0.06%
5 – 6% 2
0.13%
4 – 5% 5
0.32%
3 – 4% 10
0.65%
2 – 3% 44
2.85%
1 – 2% 202
13.07%
0 – 1% 582
37.65%
0% 67
4.33%
0 – -1% 418
27.04%
-1 – -2% 127
8.21%
-2 – -3% 56
3.62%
-3 – -4% 13
0.84%
-4 – -5% 8
0.52%
-5 – -6% 4
0.26%
-7 – -8% 1
0.06%
-9 – -10% 1
0.06%
-10 – -11% 1
0.06%

Table 2. Statistics of SKYY: Closing vs. Open

In this table, instead of using the closing price of the previous day, the opening price is used to calculate the one-day price change of SKYY.

49.6% of the time (767 days), SKYY closed above the opening price. 45.6% of the time (706 days), it closed below the opening price. 4.8% of the time (74 days), it closed where it started.

Closing - Open (%) Number of Days % of Total Sessions
5 – 6% 1
0.06%
4 – 5% 3
0.19%
3 – 4% 9
0.58%
2 – 3% 30
1.94%
1 – 2% 148
9.57%
0 – 1% 576
37.23%
0% 74
4.78%
0 – -1% 509
32.90%
-1 – -2% 140
9.05%
-2 – -3% 37
2.39%
-3 – -4% 15
0.97%
-4 – -5% 4
0.26%
-5 – -6% 1
0.06%

Table 3. One-day performance when SKYY opened 5% higher than previous close

In the past 1,547 trading days, SKYY opened more than 5% higher than the previous day's closing price 3 times. Of these days, 66.7% (2 days) had closing prices above the opening price, and 33.3% (1 days) had closing prices below the opening price.

Closing - Open (%) Number of Days % of Total Sessions
2 – 3% 2
66.67%
-2 – -3% 1
33.33%

Table 4. Closing vs. open when SKYY opened 4–5% higher

On 0 days, SKYY opened 4–5% higher than the previous day's closing price. Of these days, NaN% (0 days) had closing prices above the opening price, and NaN% (0 days) had closing prices below the opening price.

Closing - Open (%) Number of Days % of Total Sessions

Table 5. Closing vs. open when SKYY open 3 – 4% higher

2 times SKYY opened 3 – 4% higher than the previous day's closing price. Among these days, 100.0% (2 days) closed above the opening price, 0.0% (0 days) closed below the opening price.

Closing - Open (%) Number of Days % of Total Sessions
2 – 3% 1
50.00%
0 – 1% 1
50.00%

Table 6. Closing vs. open when SKYY open 2 – 3% higher

20 times SKYY opened 2 – 3% higher than the previous day's closing price. Among these days, 40.0% (8 days) closed above the opening price, 60.0% (12 days) closed below the opening price.

Closing - Open (%) Number of Days % of Total Sessions
5 – 6% 1
5.00%
1 – 2% 2
10.00%
0 – 1% 5
25.00%
0 – -1% 2
10.00%
-1 – -2% 3
15.00%
-2 – -3% 1
5.00%
-3 – -4% 6
30.00%

Table 7. Closing vs. open when SKYY open 1 – 2% higher

80 times SKYY opened 1 – 2% higher than the previous day's closing price. Among these days, 53.8% (43 days) closed above the opening price, 46.3% (37 days) closed below the opening price.

Closing - Open (%) Number of Days % of Total Sessions
2 – 3% 3
3.75%
1 – 2% 12
15.00%
0 – 1% 28
35.00%
0 – -1% 23
28.75%
-1 – -2% 9
11.25%
-2 – -3% 4
5.00%
-4 – -5% 1
1.25%

Table 8. Periods when SKYY moved 15% or more

In this table, we track the price movements in the 20 days after SKYY had a one-day price change of at least 15%.

DatePrice ChangePrice Change after 15% Move
Days after:14710131619

Table 9. Periods when SKYY moved 10% or more

In this table, we track the price movements in the 20 days after SKYY had a one-day price change of at least 10%.

DatePrice ChangePrice Change after 10% Move
Days after:14710131619
20200316-10.9% 7.2 6.5 14.9 20.2 13.2 17.7 22.9

Table 10. Periods when SKYY moved 5% or more

In this table, we track the price movements in the 20 days after SKYY had a one-day price change of at least 5%.

DatePrice ChangePrice Change after 5% Move
Days after:14710131619
202003248.3% -.6 3.9 -2.1 1.8 6.4 10.2 14.9
202011097.6% -2.0 1.1 1.6 5.3 7.7 9.3 11.3
202003137.5% -10.9 -4.1 2.9 4.1 1.0 5.5 9.5
202003177.2% -1.9 -.5 13.0 10.5 3.8 13.3 15.5
202004066.5% -.6 3.8 7.5 12.1 10.2 11.4 10.3
201812265.4% .8 1.3 2.7 7.0 6.6 9.1 8.3
202003265.4% -3.5 -6.4 -2.2 1.4 6.3 9.0 7.9
20160624-5% -3.4 1.2 .7 3.8 5.3 6.3 7.0
20200311-5.2% -9.6 -7.1 -7.7 -.4 4.1 -1.9 2.0
20200611-5.5% 1.6 5.7 8.4 8.3 9.4 11.2 14.4
20200903-5.6% -2.7 -4.5 -2.8 -4.9 -5.9 -3.1 -1.5
20200309-7.5% 4.3 -3.9 -10.0 -8.7 3.7 1.4 -4.8
20200312-9.5% 7.6 .7 2.2 16.1 13.5 6.6 16.4
20200316-10.9% 7.2 6.5 14.9 20.2 13.2 17.7 22.9

Table 10a. SKYY average price changes following a 5% up day

Of the 1,547 trading days from 2015 to 2020, there were 7 days in which SKYY was up more than 5%. This table shows the average price changes over the 7 days.

Average TypeAverage Price Change
Days after:14710131619
Avg for Change ≥ 5% -2.7 -.1 3.4 6.0 6.0 9.7 11.1

Table 10b. SKYY average price changes following a 5% down day

Of the 1,547 trading days from 2015 to 2020, there were 7 days in which SKYY was down more than -5%. This table shows the average price changes over the 7 days.

Average TypeAverage Price Change
Days after:14710131619
Avg for Change ≥ -5% .7 -.2 .8 4.9 6.2 5.5 8.1

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