Cotton: a 3.7σ rise on 27 August 2026
Recorded 7 October 2026On 27 August 2026 Cotton rose 3.75% close to close, 3.7 times its typical daily move of 1.01% over the 20 sessions before it: larger than every one of the 38 sessions on record before it. 13 other instruments of the 199 measured that day moved 2σ or more.
The day
Daily closes, as recorded the night after
- Move
- +3.75%
- Size
- +3.7σ
- Typical day before it
- 1.01%
- Close
- 91.06
- Previous close, 26 August 2026
- 87.77
- Since, to 22 October 2026
- −11.01%
Cotton, the 30 sessions to 27 August 2026
Daily closes; the last point is the quake
Show values
| Point | COTTON |
|---|---|
| 16 Jul 2026 | 77.7 |
| 17 Jul 2026 | 77.1 |
| 20 Jul 2026 | 77.4 |
| 21 Jul 2026 | 79.0 |
| 22 Jul 2026 | 79.9 |
| 23 Jul 2026 | 79.8 |
| 24 Jul 2026 | 78.6 |
| 27 Jul 2026 | 79.3 |
| 28 Jul 2026 | 79.2 |
| 29 Jul 2026 | 78.0 |
| 30 Jul 2026 | 79.4 |
| 31 Jul 2026 | 80.5 |
| 3 Aug 2026 | 81.3 |
| 4 Aug 2026 | 81.1 |
| 5 Aug 2026 | 81.8 |
| 6 Aug 2026 | 82.0 |
| 7 Aug 2026 | 83.2 |
| 10 Aug 2026 | 82.7 |
| 11 Aug 2026 | 83.1 |
| 12 Aug 2026 | 83.2 |
| 13 Aug 2026 | 82.4 |
| 14 Aug 2026 | 83.6 |
| 17 Aug 2026 | 84.1 |
| 18 Aug 2026 | 84.1 |
| 19 Aug 2026 | 87.0 |
| 20 Aug 2026 | 87.0 |
| 21 Aug 2026 | 87.1 |
| 24 Aug 2026 | 87.5 |
| 25 Aug 2026 | 87.1 |
| 26 Aug 2026 | 87.8 |
| 27 Aug 2026 | 91.1 |
The same day
Other quakes on 27 August 2026
| Instrument | Move | Size |
|---|---|---|
| Salesforce CRM | +22.58% | +8.8σ |
| CrowdStrike CRWD | +20.50% | +6.2σ |
| Nvidia NVDA | +8.74% | +4.2σ |
| Euro / Polish Zloty EUR/PLN | +0.54% | +3.6σ |
| CAC 40 CAC | −1.68% | −3.2σ |
| US Dollar / Turkish Lira USD/TRY | −0.29% | −3.1σ |
Cotton's other quakes
On record, newest first
- 19 August 2026: +3.42%, +3.4σ
How it is measured
The move is the close-to-close return; its size is that return divided by the standard deviation of Cotton's previous 20 daily returns. A quake is 3σ or more. This record was made the night after the day finished trading and has not been changed since. The live chart is on Cotton's page; the last few months of every market's daily moves are on the volatility terrain, and every quake on record is in the quake archive.