How to use Group By and self-join to return min, max, open, and close daily price restult set?

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Answer 1

SELECT
  a.trading_day, a.min_price, a.max_price, 
  b.price as opn_price, 
  c.price as cls_price
FROM
  (SELECT 
     DATE_FORMAT(`DTE`, "%m/%d/%Y") AS trading_day,
     MIN(`PRICE`) AS min_price,
     MAX(`PRICE`) AS max_price,
     MIN(`dte`) AS open_date,
     MAX(`dte`) AS close_date
   FROM `CHART_DATA`
   GROUP BY trading_day) a
LEFT JOIN
  `CHART_DATA` b ON b.dte = a.open_date
LEFT JOIN
  `CHART_DATA` c ON c.dte = a.close_date

Note: this solution may present some problems if your opening or closing entry has the exact same date/time value as another row (i.e. the transaction that came immediately after opening, or immediately before closing). To address this, I would suggest that you add a sequence number that is stored in a way that guarantees uniqueness, and increasing-with-respect-to-time. If you do this, then you would use the sequence value in the place of dte to replace the open_date and close_date I've used as join fields in my example.