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11 March
Crude oil is trading like a ‘meme stock’, these charts show
Oil tanker unloading crude oil at a terminal in Qingdao, China.
Wild swings in crude-oil prices are drawing more individual investors to trade the critical commodity. Photo: Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

Crude-oil prices haven’t been this volatile in years — and individual investors can’t seem to get enough.

Enthusiasm for the recent tumult has led to skyrocketing trading volumes in the oil-centric United States Oil Fund USO, a popular exchange-traded fund with individuals, much like the frenetic trading activity in recent months in major silver SIL and gold GLD ETFs.