Contango
Sign in to savethumb|upright=1.5|This graph depicts how the price of a single forward contract will typically behave through time in relation to the expected future price at any point in time. A futures contract in contango will normally decrease in value until it equals the spot price of the underlying commodity at maturity. This graph does not show the [[forward curve (which plots against maturities on the horizontal).]]
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- Instance of
- specialized term
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- opposite of
- normal backwardation
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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