Occidental Petroleum: a 4.9σ fall on 16 September 2026
Recorded 7 October 2026On 16 September 2026 Occidental Petroleum fell 6.55% close to close, 4.9 times its typical daily move of 1.34% over the 20 sessions before it: larger than every one of the 51 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
- −6.55%
- Size
- −4.9σ
- Typical day before it
- 1.34%
- Close
- 59.36
- Previous close, 15 September 2026
- 63.52
- Since, to 21 October 2026
- +5.63%
Occidental Petroleum, the 30 sessions to 16 September 2026
Daily closes; the last point is the quake
Show values
| Point | OXY |
|---|---|
| 4 Aug 2026 | 55.1 |
| 5 Aug 2026 | 53.8 |
| 6 Aug 2026 | 56.0 |
| 7 Aug 2026 | 55.9 |
| 10 Aug 2026 | 58.7 |
| 11 Aug 2026 | 59.1 |
| 12 Aug 2026 | 58.5 |
| 13 Aug 2026 | 57.7 |
| 14 Aug 2026 | 58.4 |
| 17 Aug 2026 | 59.0 |
| 18 Aug 2026 | 59.8 |
| 19 Aug 2026 | 60.1 |
| 20 Aug 2026 | 61.5 |
| 21 Aug 2026 | 61.3 |
| 24 Aug 2026 | 60.1 |
| 25 Aug 2026 | 58.4 |
| 26 Aug 2026 | 58.6 |
| 27 Aug 2026 | 59.2 |
| 28 Aug 2026 | 59.1 |
| 31 Aug 2026 | 60.2 |
| 1 Sep 2026 | 61.0 |
| 2 Sep 2026 | 60.9 |
| 3 Sep 2026 | 60.6 |
| 4 Sep 2026 | 60.0 |
| 8 Sep 2026 | 60.7 |
| 9 Sep 2026 | 61.3 |
| 10 Sep 2026 | 61.2 |
| 11 Sep 2026 | 61.5 |
| 14 Sep 2026 | 61.8 |
| 15 Sep 2026 | 63.5 |
| 16 Sep 2026 | 59.4 |
The same day
Other quakes on 16 September 2026
| Instrument | Move | Size |
|---|---|---|
| ConocoPhillips COP | −6.15% | −4.2σ |
Occidental Petroleum's other quakes
On record, newest first
- 7 July 2026: +5.88%, +3.6σ
How it is measured
The move is the close-to-close return; its size is that return divided by the standard deviation of Occidental Petroleum'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 Occidental Petroleum'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.