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GLD's trailing year, and the gold notional inside one MGC

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 2026-10-04, from Micro Gold Futures vs GLD: Size, Tax, Cost.

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GLD's trailing year, and the gold notional inside one MGC — 13 rows by 7 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
monthcalendar_labelgld_month_end_closegld_month_highgld_month_lowimplied_gold_labelmgc_notional_label
2025-10-01Oct 2025368.12403.3351.4$4,010$40,100
2025-11-01Nov 2025387.88388.18361.39$4,225$42,253
2025-12-01Dec 2025396.31418.45382.91$4,317$43,171
2026-01-01Jan 2026444.95509.7396.25$4,847$48,469
2026-02-01Feb 2026483.75483.9422.55$5,270$52,696
2026-03-01Mar 2026430.29492.15399.2$4,687$46,873
2026-04-01Apr 2026423.66448.7414.16$4,615$46,150
2026-05-01May 2026417.12437.42404.3$4,544$45,438
2026-06-01Jun 2026368.38414.4363.32$4,013$40,129
2026-07-01Jul 2026371.54383.6363.6$4,047$40,473
2026-08-01Aug 2026408.42429.42368.64$4,449$44,490
2026-09-01Sep 2026380.84413.54376.88$4,149$41,486
2026-10-01Oct 2026380.14385.22378.11$4,141$41,410
Rows × columns
13 × 7
Period covered
to
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
Licence
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What each column holds

Column definitions for GLD's trailing year, and the gold notional inside one MGC, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
month date 2025-10-01 to 2026-10-01
calendar_label text 13 distinct values (Apr 2026, Aug 2026, Dec 2025…)
gld_month_end_close number 368.12 to 483.75 US dollars
gld_month_high number 383.6 to 509.7 US dollars
gld_month_low number 351.4 to 422.55 US dollars
implied_gold_label text 13 distinct values ($4,010, $4,013, $4,047…)
mgc_notional_label text 13 distinct values ($40,100, $40,129, $40,473…)

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.

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SELECT
    month,
    calendar_label,
    round(month_end_close, 2) AS gld_month_end_close,
    round(month_high, 2)      AS gld_month_high,
    round(month_low, 2)       AS gld_month_low,
    concat('$', substring(gold_digits, 1, 1), ',', substring(gold_digits, 2, 3)) AS implied_gold_label,
    concat('$', substring(mgc_digits, 1, 2), ',', substring(mgc_digits, 3, 3))   AS mgc_notional_label
FROM
(
    WITH 0.0918 AS ounces_per_gld_share
    SELECT
        toString(toStartOfMonth(date))     AS month,
        formatDateTime(min(date), '%b %Y') AS calendar_label,
        toFloat64(argMax(close, date))     AS month_end_close,
        toFloat64(max(high))               AS month_high,
        toFloat64(min(low))                AS month_low,
        toString(toUInt32(round(month_end_close / ounces_per_gld_share)))      AS gold_digits,
        toString(toUInt32(round(month_end_close * 10 / ounces_per_gld_share))) AS mgc_digits
    FROM global_markets.stocks_daily_aggs
    WHERE ticker = 'GLD'
      AND date >= addMonths(toStartOfMonth(today()), -12)
    GROUP BY month
)
ORDER BY month
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