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Backwardation and Contango

This video provides a quick review of the concept of contango and backwardation. These two are opposite of each other.

A market is said to be in Backwardation, when the prices of a futures contract is trading below the expected spot prices at the contract maturity.

A market is said to be in Contango, when the price of a futures contract is above the expected spot price.

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Commodity Markets

9 lessons

Lessons

1
Defining Commodities
2
Commodity Markets - Types of Commodities
3
Commodity Traders and Future Value
4
Types of Markets for Commodity Trading
5
Commodity Markets: Price Discovery, Price Risk Management and Regulation
6
Regulation of Commodity Markets
7
What is Contango?
8
What is Backwardation?
9
Backwardation and Contango
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