MCLQ0 expiry: July 22, 2030

When MCLQ0 stops trading

Trading terminates 3 business days prior to the 25th calendar day of the month prior to the contract month. If the 25th is not a business day, trading terminates 3 business days prior to the last business day preceding the 25th. For MCLQ0 that falls on July 22, 2030.

Senzoukria stops offering MCLQ0 as the default contract on July 18, 2030, 4 calendar days before that last trading day, and keeps it selectable with a badge. The date is computed from the exchange rule rather than stored. The engine counts Monday to Friday and holds no CME holiday table, so a date that falls next to a public holiday can be one day off the exchange calendar. Check the exchange calendar when the date sits close to a holiday.

When the volume actually leaves

Energy contracts expire monthly, so the roll is a routine of every month rather than every quarter. Volume leaves the expiring month several sessions before its last trading day, and the spread between the two months widens as it does.

For MCLQ0 the next listed delivery is MCLU0, whose last trading day is August 20, 2030. That is the contract the volume moves into, just as it moved out of MCLN0 on June 16, 2030.

What one tick is worth on MCLQ0

The minimum price fluctuation is 0.01, which is $1.00 per contract on a multiplier of 100. A full point is therefore $100.00. On a footprint chart one row is one tick, so the same vertical space holds a different number of rows depending on the product: a tick of 0.01 sets how finely the bid and ask volume of MCL can be read.

These are the values the app itself trades on, taken from its contract table rather than retyped, so the P&L shown on a MCLQ0 position and the rows of its footprint come from the same numbers.

Every MCL delivery listed in 2030

MCL lists 12 delivery months a year (F, G, H, J, K, M, N, Q, U, V, X, Z). MCLQ0 is number 8 of 12 in 2030.

MCLQ0 and CLQ0 side by side

MCL and CL track the same underlying, but CL is 10 times the size of MCL: $10.00 a tick against $1.00. Both quote on the same 0.01 tick. MCLQ0 and CLQ0 share the same last trading day, July 22, 2030, so a position in either rolls on the same date.

The practical difference is position sizing rather than behaviour. MCL lets a 10-contract position carry the same exposure as one CL, which makes partial exits possible on a small account; CL carries the deeper book, so its footprint and its depth of market are the ones to read even when the position is held in MCL.