Worked P&L examples: ticks moved x tick value x contracts (hypothetical)

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 2026-09-16, from Futures Tick Size and Tick Value Explained.

Rows × columns

7 × 5

Computed

2026-09-16

Completeness

No missing values

Source

US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data

Licence

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Formats

JSON · CSV · the SQL below

What each column holds

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 2026-09-16, and the query below is what returned them.

SELECT
    example,
    ticks_moved,
    tick_value_usd,
    contracts,
    ticks_moved * tick_value_usd * contracts AS pnl_usd
FROM
(
    SELECT 1 AS id, 'ES up 4.50 points, 1 contract' AS example, 18 AS ticks_moved, 12.50 AS tick_value_usd, 1 AS contracts
    UNION ALL SELECT 2, 'ES up 4.50 points, 3 contracts', 18, 12.50, 3
    UNION ALL SELECT 3, 'MES up 4.50 points, 1 contract', 18, 1.25, 1
    UNION ALL SELECT 4, 'CL down 0.85 per barrel, long 1 contract', -85, 10.00, 1
    UNION ALL SELECT 5, 'MCL down 0.85 per barrel, long 1 contract', -85, 1.00, 1
    UNION ALL SELECT 6, 'ZN up 8/32 (110-16 to 110-24), 1 contract', 16, 15.625, 1
    UNION ALL SELECT 7, 'ZB down 12/32 (118-00 to 117-20), long 1 contract', -12, 31.25, 1
) AS examples
ORDER BY id