How to self-join table in a way that every record is joined with the “previous” record?

Question

I have a MS SQL table that contains stock data with the following columns: Id, Symbol, Date, Open, High, Low, Close.

I would like to self-join the table

Answer 1

Index on (symbol, date)

SELECT *
FROM quotes q_curr
CROSS APPLY (
  SELECT TOP(1) *
  FROM quotes
  WHERE symbol = q_curr.symbol
    AND date < q_curr.date
  ORDER BY date DESC
) q_prev