Contango from trader perspective발음듣기
Contango from trader perspective
[Male voiceover] If a commodities trader would tell you that a market is in Contango, they're just referring to the idea that it is cheaper today.발음듣기
It's cheaper to buy it on the Spot Market than it is to agree to buy it at some futures date or some future date using a Futures or Forward Contract.발음듣기
Let's say that that commodity is gold and I'll just make up gold prices for the sake of simplicity.발음듣기
Let's say that today, you can go on the Spot Market and buy gold at $1,500 per ounce but if you wanted to buy gold, if you don't want the gold today and you wanna enter a Futures Contract to buy the gold, one year from now.발음듣기
Instead of buying in the Spot Market for $1,500 an ounce, you could agree to buy it one year later, one year from now for $1,600 an ounce and so to a trader, this would be a market in Contango.발음듣기
What I wanna point out is that this isn't that strange of a thing because if you think about it, you have two options.발음듣기
In the situation with gold, let's say you wanna keep gold for definitely a year but maybe many, many, many years.발음듣기
You could take your $1,500 and buy the gold today but if you take your $1,500 and buy the gold today, you would lose the returns on that $1,500 on that cash that you could invest other places.발음듣기
In the case of gold storage, you have to find some place really secure and maybe you need to insure the gold.발음듣기
Instead of just buying $1,500 of the Spot Market today, you could enter into this contract where you can definitely buy the gold one year later for $1,600 an ounce and then you could take your $1,500, and get interest on it, so that will grow and you'll also save money on the storage cost.발음듣기
In either way, especially for commodities like gold, precious metals, things that aren't consumable, things that people don't need immediately for consumption, it's not unusual for a market to be in Contango.발음듣기
This is probably taking more into account than just the storage cost and the opportunity cost of your cash and this might be because there's a surplus for all oil consumption today.발음듣기
There's just a big glut in the market and people are just trying to dump it or there might be some type of perceived shortage in the future.발음듣기
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