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Two listed crude oil funds, calendar year price change

Answered against 22 years of US equities and 12 years of US options data and published with the query that produced it. This result is stored as of 2026-08-10, from Contango and Roll Yield in Commodity ETFs.

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Two listed crude oil funds, calendar year price change — 5 rows by 4 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
yearuso_pctusl_pctgap_pct
202167.8865.272.62
202227.8725.842.02
2023-1.462.16-3.62
202414.879.355.52
2025-10.1-13.513.41
Rows × columns
5 × 4
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds

Column definitions for Two listed crude oil funds, calendar year price change, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
year text 5 distinct values (2021, 2022, 2023…)
uso_pct number -10.1 to 67.88 percent
usl_pct number -13.51 to 65.27 percent
gap_pct number -3.62 to 5.52 percent

Computed from Strasmore's warehouse of US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data. Equity prices are delayed; options greeks and implied volatility are end-of-day. This result is stored, not recomputed on load — it is exactly the numbers that were returned on , and the query below is what returned them.

the exact SQL behind every number 
SELECT
    toString(toYear(date)) AS year,
    round((argMaxIf(toFloat64(close), date, ticker = 'USO')
         / argMinIf(toFloat64(close), date, ticker = 'USO') - 1) * 100, 2) AS uso_pct,
    round((argMaxIf(toFloat64(close), date, ticker = 'USL')
         / argMinIf(toFloat64(close), date, ticker = 'USL') - 1) * 100, 2) AS usl_pct,
    round(((argMaxIf(toFloat64(close), date, ticker = 'USO')
          / argMinIf(toFloat64(close), date, ticker = 'USO'))
         - (argMaxIf(toFloat64(close), date, ticker = 'USL')
          / argMinIf(toFloat64(close), date, ticker = 'USL'))) * 100, 2) AS gap_pct
FROM global_markets.stocks_daily_aggs
WHERE ticker IN ('USO', 'USL')
  AND date >= '2021-01-01'
  AND date <  '2026-01-01'
GROUP BY toYear(date)
HAVING countIf(ticker = 'USO') > 100
   AND countIf(ticker = 'USL') > 100
ORDER BY year

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